The perfect plant? Bromeliads can be ignored for months
It took plant breeder Robert Larnach 16 years to develop a vriesea with glossy leaves the colour of a rich Barossa shiraz. He started with a plant that was all green, so the ruby-leaved gems sitting next to the originals look like the result of a magic spell. Larnach...
How to Prune Garden Roses
It’s no secret that roses are falling back in fashion with home gardeners. In and out of vogue since the days of Cleopatra, these days we’re less crazed about the super tight, ” Will-you-accept-this-rose ” version of the flower and much more...
Grower exposes the sex lives of orchids
MURRAY WILSON/STUFFOrchid expo organiser Allan Rae explains the lengths orchids go to in search of love. Many of the blooms on display at the National Orchid Expo in Palmerston North are likely to have been bred from test-tube “babies”. The pollen donor...
Healthy crops on the Central Coast
Photo courtesy of Lance Runels Glad-A-Way Gardens grows annually on about 500 acres of row crop farmland, harvesting more than a dozen different colors of gladioli all year long for cut flower markets throughout the United States and portions of Canada. More than 30...Latest News
