The gift of growing
Last-minute presents, or the ‘thank you’ gift you need for the hosts of your holiday escape, find the solution in the form of a plant. Gifting a plant is more than it seems, symbolising growth and life. A timeless tangible offering that dates back centuries, it is still a welcome gift in the […]
Annihilate those aphids
Warmer days, and muggy humid weather often brings an outbreak of aphids in the garden, especially on tender young roses. By Lynda Papesch. By all accounts, many Canterbury gardeners are already experiencing explosions of the little sap-sucking insects. Dealing with them usually includes regular spraying, and this is where opinions differ on what […]
Outdoor character: Grow Landscape & Lifestyle
Start your summer entertaining with a bang, with the latest outdoor pieces and plants to land at this Moorhouse Ave store. Grow Landscape & Lifestyle is home to beautiful new season pieces to improve the ambience of your garden. Fountains, corten steel garden art, and towering feature plants make beautiful summer statements outdoors. […]
A blooming marvellous place: Kiwiflora Nurseries
Before Christmas, you may want to spruce up your outdoor living space, so stand back and identify plants that need replacing, before heading off to your favourite garden centre. We’re in a wonderful season, bursting with vibrant flowering varieties, making it easy to fill a gap or refresh a tired perennial border. A […]
Garden charm: Grow Landscape & Lifestyle
Refresh your outdoors with ease, thanks to the plethora of ever-evolving new season stock at this Moorhouse Ave store. Every week at Grow Landscape & Lifestyle beautiful new pieces and plants arrive to help improve the ambience of your garden. Fountains, corten steel garden art, and towering feature plants are elements of awe […]
Bring back butterflies
New Zealand butterfly enthusiasts are concerned some varieties may be headed for extinction. In Britain, the charity Butterfly Conservation called on its government to declare a “Nature Emergency” because of the decline of butterflies in that country, and some in New Zealand fear we may be headed down the same path. The British […]
Allergy-friendly flowers
Pollens fill the air at this time of year, exacerbating hay fever, sinus conditions, and breathing problems such as asthma, amongst others. Spring and summer are prime seasons for flowers so there’s more pollen in the air than usual. Despite that, it’s possible to enjoy a colourful garden without sneezing, itchy eyes, and […]
Holistic homes: Studio Wren
A home is more than just the physical bones of a house or the nature residing in a garden. Rachael Farthing, owner of Studio Wren, Christchurch’s newest landscape design company, believes that a home is created as elements of architecture, interior and landscape come together. Each “reflects different parts of the owners, connecting […]
Beautiful bonsai
Bonsai is an ancient horticultural art form. Originally developed in the Orient almost 2000 years ago, today it is an art practised throughout the world. Shape, harmony, proportion and scale are all weighed up carefully in creating bonsai. Just planting a tree in a small pot is not bonsai; it has to be […]
Creating predator-free properties
To create a sanctuary for native birds and other wildlife in your backyard means managing predators. Stoats, rats, weasels, possums, cats, and hedgehogs prey on birds, including their eggs and nestlings, and on other small creatures. If you want to keep the birds flourishing, and other wildlife enjoying your property, then controlling pests […]
