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Natalie’s garden blog November 2025: Spring Gardening in New Zealand, Late spring growth, opportunistic weeds and plants best avoided
Weeding can be a little like solving a puzzle. If you look closely you’ll find hidden amongst the weeds are treasures like self-grown flower seedlings...

Natalie Quirke
2 days ago5 min read
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Natalie’s garden blog September 2025 Spring gardening: summer cut flowers, grafting and flower shows and festivals
Spring is an ideal time to sow or plant seedlings for cut flowers and foliage.

Natalie Quirke
Oct 63 min read
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Natalie’s garden blog August 2025
Winter may feel like it’s outstaying its welcome, but change is stirring in the garden. There are glimpses of spring in our re-awakening gardens. The first daffodils in bloom, fragrant flowering daphne, the cup-shaped flowers of the winter rose (hellebore), early flowering magnolia, tree buds swelling and more and more outbursts of birdsong.

Natalie Quirke
Aug 244 min read
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Natalie’s Garden Blog – July 2025
The winter solstice (21 June) is behind us – it’s never too early to start anticipating spring!

Natalie Quirke
Jul 293 min read
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Natalie’s Garden Blog June 2025
Winter is a great time to prune – especially your roses
Gardening is both an art and a science, and pruning is one of the best ways to express your creativity. If you’ve ever hesitated to pick up the secateurs, this month we’re starting with the perfect winter candidate: roses.

Natalie Quirke
Jul 44 min read
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Natalie’s Garden Blog April/May 2025
The Autumn Garden Makeover — in Preparation for Winter  It’s a wonderful time to get our gardens organised for winter, as before we know...

Natalie Quirke
May 124 min read
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Autumn Gardening Tips with Natalie Quirke: Dahlias, Deciduous Trees & Seasonal Care
After such a long and dry, warm spell our gardens are welcoming with open arms early autumn rains. The rain is refreshing our gardens, and they in turn are beckoning us into them. It’s time to get organised ahead of winter, and there’s plenty of variety on the gardening front. The still warm soil encourages root growth in new plantings, ahead of winter. In some ways this is the best season for sowing seeds, planting new trees, shrubs and seedlings.

Natalie Quirke
Mar 244 min read
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Summer Gardening with Natalie Quirke: Heat-Loving Plants, Deep Watering & Bulb Planning
The February garden is sunfilled and feeling the heat. Summer flowers are embracing the summer sun and feeling very much alive,...

Natalie Quirke
Feb 144 min read
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In the Summer Garden with Natalie Quirke: Mindful Gardening, Summer Berries & Birdsong
The joy of just ‘being’ in your garden surrounded by the symphony of birdsong. It’s such a joy wandering in my garden in the freshness of...

Natalie Quirke
Jan 243 min read
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