Category Archives: Gardening

Poppies in Martinborough

Posted on Sunday, 17 December, 2017 by jmacg

We’ve had a few opium poppies (Papaver Somniferum) in a flower bed for several years. They grow well and look very pretty. Unfortunately they are very good at spraying their seed and spreading. This year a dense swarm descended on … Continue reading →

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It’s been a good year for rhododenrons

Posted on Friday, 1 September, 2017 by jmacg

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Touring Wairarapa gardens

Posted on Monday, 9 November, 2015 by jmacg

I’ve just had a most pleasant weekend visiting eleven of Wairarapa’s best gardens, on a self-drive tour organised as a fundraiser for the Pukaha/Mt Bruce bird sanctuary. The gardens were spectacular, so was the weather and the green late-spring Wairarapa … Continue reading →

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Jacobean climbing lily

Posted on Monday, 23 February, 2015 by jmacg
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Gardening with a sledgehammer

Posted on Sunday, 7 October, 2012 by jmacg

Today we’re trying to rescue our  garden, which was seriously mangled by the digger and truck that ran over it many times while our soakpit was constructed. After a very wet late summer and autumn, the soil was soft and … Continue reading →

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