Kapiti Gardening

Spring is an ideal time to sow or plant seedlings for cut flowers and foliage.

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.

The Autumn Garden Makeover — in Preparation for Winter   It’s a wonderful time to get our gardens organised for winter, as before we know...

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.

The February garden is sunfilled and feeling the heat. Summer flowers are embracing the summer sun and feeling very much alive,...

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...