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Gareth Carter: What to plant in your garden now
Now's the best time of year to start changing the design and shape of your garden.
Gareth Carter: Autumn's here and it's garden renovation time
Autumn is the best time of year to be planting new gardens and renovating existing ones.
New beginnings in the garden
Now is the perfect time to kick start the old and tired garden back into life.
Contain yourself! It's a garden in a townhouse
Plants in containers presents gardeners with endless opportunities to express their flair.
12 questions with Xanthe White
Landscape designer Xanthe White tells Jennifer Dann what makes a great garden.
Thousands queue for flower's stench of death
It was the first time the plant has flowered in the decade it had been at the garden.
Gareth Carter: Lawns rampant as summer enters last month
Gareth Carter's regular gardening column
Disgusting stink: Corpse flower set to bloom
The huge flower that smells like rotting flesh is growing about 10cm a day.
Gladioli and dahlias the star turns of summer flower show
The Wanganui Horticultural Society Summer Show is a chance to see new flower varieties
On Alcatraz, the reformed gardens bloom
Gardens of Alcatraz tours allow visitors to stroll grounds once cultivated by convicts.
Summer Series: Gorgeous Gardens
Bonnie and Jack, both keen gardeners, share the honours in their Anzac Parade garden.
The lawnmower debate: How early is too early?
Herald readers speak out on when and when not to mow your lawns.
Nanogirl: How to stop your Christmas tree making a mess
COMMENT: Has science found the perfect Christmas tree?
Flower show finally back in Auckland
It's hoped 70,000 people will attend the NZ Flower and Garden Show this week.
NZ Flower and Garden Show hits Auckland
Kate Hillier, event director of the NZ Flower and Garden show, talks about the event. / Video by Michael Craig
Sarah O'Neil: November is a waiting game
November gardening - there's little to do but prepare and plan, writes Sarah O'Neil.
12 questions: Garden show queen Kate Hillier
Kate Hillier talks about gardening, royalty and the 2011 Christchurch earthquake.
Local Focus: Growing vegetables is easy, but also hard
The art of growing your own produce. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Learning by cooking wins school award
Children at Haumoana School are learning reading, writing and maths by cooking.
Gardeners' passion prompts ministry warning
Not so fast, Ministry of Primary Industries warns amateur gardeners over banned seeds..
Grow easy: Your Garden inspiration
We took a tour of some of the gardens featured in the Auckland Garden DesignFest.
People you meet at the garden centre
Ruth Spencer digs out the truth about our gardening fetishes.
Superfoods you can easily grow yourself
Experts reveal 10 very ordinary superfoods you can grow at home.
Gardening: Doing the ground work
Now is a good time to find your gardening style, says Sarah O'Neil
Man mistakes snake for fallen branch
A Queensland man almost had a very nasty surprise while he was out gardening.
How weather will affect veggie prices
Kiwis will have to adjust to unusual gaps on supermarket shelves.
Sprinklers on despite water crisis
Auckland may be in its worst water crisis for 23 years — but it seems someone forgot to tell the council's development arm, Panuku.
Woman's plant grows six metres tall
A Kiwi who bought a small plant had no idea that it would shoot up overnight.
Next season starts now
We are now long past the first throws of the new season and without wanting to cast doom and gloom, autumn is on our doorstep and