In the Garden - Flowers
Bringing nature indoors
Along with the retro revival of all things mid-century, houseplants are making a big comeback in fashionable living spaces worldwide. This all bodes well for happy, healthy homes
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Along with the retro revival of all things mid-century, houseplants are making a big comeback in fashionable living spaces worldwide. This all bodes well for happy, healthy homes
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Cool colour in containers
When shorter days mean less time outside it makes sense to bring nature closer, making the most of potted plants in and around the home.
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When shorter days mean less time outside it makes sense to bring nature closer, making the most of potted plants in and around the home.
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Cool weather classics
If you want something that lasts longer than a bunch of cut flowers, you can't beat a beautiful flowering cyclamen for the cooler months of the year.
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If you want something that lasts longer than a bunch of cut flowers, you can't beat a beautiful flowering cyclamen for the cooler months of the year.
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Fast and fabulous
A beginners guide to hardy annuals. What costs less than a takeaway coffee but will brighten your days for six months or more? A takeaway punnet of flowering annuals!
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A beginners guide to hardy annuals. What costs less than a takeaway coffee but will brighten your days for six months or more? A takeaway punnet of flowering annuals!
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The 3 P's for quick winter colour
Flowering annuals are especially valuable over the cooler months of the year, bringing cheerful colour when there are few other flowers around.
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Flowering annuals are especially valuable over the cooler months of the year, bringing cheerful colour when there are few other flowers around.
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For the love of colour
There's no season like spring to inspire the gardener that's in all of us. Now's the time to create a flower garden that will bring out the artist in you
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There's no season like spring to inspire the gardener that's in all of us. Now's the time to create a flower garden that will bring out the artist in you
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Inspired by nature - creating with flowers
Spring is all about colour. Whether it's filling pots with flowers that continue from now until next winter or planting something more permanent, getting creative with flowers is one of the great pleasures of the new season.
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Spring is all about colour. Whether it's filling pots with flowers that continue from now until next winter or planting something more permanent, getting creative with flowers is one of the great pleasures of the new season.
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More colour, less fuss
Nothing says spring like a garden full of flowers. Keeping up the colour right through spring, summer and autumn is easy to achieve with so many long flowering modern hybrids at our disposal.
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Nothing says spring like a garden full of flowers. Keeping up the colour right through spring, summer and autumn is easy to achieve with so many long flowering modern hybrids at our disposal.
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Pansy perfection
Pansies and their smaller viola cousins, have kept up with the times as favourites among flowers that are easy to grow and deliver premium colour on tougher and tougher plants.
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Pansies and their smaller viola cousins, have kept up with the times as favourites among flowers that are easy to grow and deliver premium colour on tougher and tougher plants.
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Playing favourites
Two flower loving horticulturists share some of the spring treasures they wouldn't want to be without in their own gardens.
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Two flower loving horticulturists share some of the spring treasures they wouldn't want to be without in their own gardens.
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Vintage flowers
Simple flowers that have graced our gardens for centuries owe their long standing popularity as much to their extraordinary functionality as their enduring beauty.
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Simple flowers that have graced our gardens for centuries owe their long standing popularity as much to their extraordinary functionality as their enduring beauty.
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Bulb time!
Autumn is planting time for flowering bulbs which light up the garden from earliest spring. We check in with a couple of experienced bulb growers for some timely tips and inspiration.
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Autumn is planting time for flowering bulbs which light up the garden from earliest spring. We check in with a couple of experienced bulb growers for some timely tips and inspiration.
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Floriferous!
A colourful garden that peaks in high summer is a magnet for beneficial insects and provides loads of flowers for picking. These free-flowering favourites deliver maximum satisfaction for minimal effort.
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A colourful garden that peaks in high summer is a magnet for beneficial insects and provides loads of flowers for picking. These free-flowering favourites deliver maximum satisfaction for minimal effort.
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Marigolds
Generous, cheerful resilient marigolds are hardy characters who get going when the going gets tough.
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Generous, cheerful resilient marigolds are hardy characters who get going when the going gets tough.
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Summer colour for butterflies
Load your garden with colourful plants to ensure you have a blazing display to attract as many butterflies as possible.
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Load your garden with colourful plants to ensure you have a blazing display to attract as many butterflies as possible.
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Summer in bloom
These summer flowering perennials are a selection of easy care plants that fill a variety of garden situations.
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These summer flowering perennials are a selection of easy care plants that fill a variety of garden situations.
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The world smiles in daisies
Simple sun-loving daisies are among the most prolific summer flowers. These easy-going, easy to grow plants provide lashings of colour and bees love them too.
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Simple sun-loving daisies are among the most prolific summer flowers. These easy-going, easy to grow plants provide lashings of colour and bees love them too.
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Berry delight
Beautiful perennial 'Berry Delight' nemesias are another exciting feature for the spring cottage garden, hanging baskets and pots. Those magical early spring blooms are now bigger and more fragrant than ever.
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Beautiful perennial 'Berry Delight' nemesias are another exciting feature for the spring cottage garden, hanging baskets and pots. Those magical early spring blooms are now bigger and more fragrant than ever.
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Dahlia Dreamy Series™
A new range of hardy dahlias on darkest foliage with lovely bronze flower buds in several vibrant colours. These are bred to stand up to the elements: The wild weather won't deter these summer beauties.
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A new range of hardy dahlias on darkest foliage with lovely bronze flower buds in several vibrant colours. These are bred to stand up to the elements: The wild weather won't deter these summer beauties.
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Designing with flowers
If colour is your thing, or if you love to keep your vases full of flowers, modern breeding has delivered a plethora of plants that deliver bloom after bloom in the hottest months of year. Master the art of planting a garden that keeps on giving throughout summer and beyond.
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If colour is your thing, or if you love to keep your vases full of flowers, modern breeding has delivered a plethora of plants that deliver bloom after bloom in the hottest months of year. Master the art of planting a garden that keeps on giving throughout summer and beyond.
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Downsizing
Whether home is an apartment, retirement unit or town house, Heuchera 'Cuties' fit perfectly into a smaller garden
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Whether home is an apartment, retirement unit or town house, Heuchera 'Cuties' fit perfectly into a smaller garden
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Easy on the eye
Flowering perfection in a rainbow of colours. New Alstromerias perfect for pots and the garden.
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Flowering perfection in a rainbow of colours. New Alstromerias perfect for pots and the garden.
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Perfectly petunia
How do you like your petunias? Big and blousy or dainty and diminutive? Spreading and tumbling or chunky and upright? Striped, starred, multi-toned or plain? Bright brazen reds, pinks and . . .
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How do you like your petunias? Big and blousy or dainty and diminutive? Spreading and tumbling or chunky and upright? Striped, starred, multi-toned or plain? Bright brazen reds, pinks and . . .
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Planting for pollinators
Flower gardens are great for the planet's little champions. If you do just one thing this spring, plant a pollinator garden.
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Flower gardens are great for the planet's little champions. If you do just one thing this spring, plant a pollinator garden.
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Salvia Wishes
A lovely new range of uniquely coloured salvias is proof that wishes can come true
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A lovely new range of uniquely coloured salvias is proof that wishes can come true
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Sun worshippers
Impatiens; they're a top choice for cheerful garden borders or adding bright pops of colour among shrubs and perennials. But they've always needed shade. That is, until SunPatiens came along!
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Impatiens; they're a top choice for cheerful garden borders or adding bright pops of colour among shrubs and perennials. But they've always needed shade. That is, until SunPatiens came along!
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Tried and true Lavender
Easy care lavenders are among life's simplest pleasures and have stood the test of time as some of the most accommodating shrubs of all.
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Easy care lavenders are among life's simplest pleasures and have stood the test of time as some of the most accommodating shrubs of all.
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Voodoo Magic
Floriferous Voodoo Verbenas are taking their place among summer's top flowers.
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Floriferous Voodoo Verbenas are taking their place among summer's top flowers.
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Winning combinations
Successfully combining flowers and foliage is an art form that takes time and experimentation, even for the most practiced gardener. But happily, we can also depend on some classic combos that always come up trumps.
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Successfully combining flowers and foliage is an art form that takes time and experimentation, even for the most practiced gardener. But happily, we can also depend on some classic combos that always come up trumps.
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Pure passion
Sally Brown of Otago is spreading the love of flowers. Sue Linn talks to one of New Zealand's most inspirational young gardeners.
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Sally Brown of Otago is spreading the love of flowers. Sue Linn talks to one of New Zealand's most inspirational young gardeners.
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26-Apr-2024
In the Garden
