Design | Telegraph (The)
23 October 2019
New Zealand-born London-based chef and co-owner of Rochelle Canteen Margot Henderson talks to The Telegraph about how she became a gardener and what she loves most about her inner-city garden for the “occasional” column,…
Design | Telegraph (The)
19 August 2016
Why is it that the non-English – like New Zealand-born florist Charlie McCormick (pictured right) – do classic English so much better than we do? the Telegraph’s Sarah Raven asks. On Raven’s arrival at his…
General | Go Upstate
23 March 2012
Woodbridge, Hortensia House and Ayrlies Garden are three of New Zealand’s “stand out” gardens, which Go Upstate’s Betty Montgomery visited on an “unforgettable trip” to summer south of the equator. “Woodbridge was started in…
Nature | Sign On San Diego
6 June 2010
The Olivenhain garden of New Zealanders Maury and Heather Callaghan in Southern Californian is an “expanse of lawn and beds of perennials” with a tall, fragrant banana shrub and burgundy-leaved smoke tree “creat a…
Nature | Deseret News
9 January 2010
New Zealand municipal botanical gardens, including Hamilton Gardens and the Whakarewarewa Forest and Government Gardens in Rotorua, feature in a travel article written by Ray Boren for the Desert News. “Indeed, the…
Z-Files | Independent (The)
19 June 2004
British celebrity gardener, Charlie Dimmock, named NZ as her preferred home-away-from-home in an interview with The Independent. “If I had to to New Zealand. They have an’outdoors’ lifestyle,’ and people are more active.”
Nature | Knox News
12 April 2004
After a brief 1960s hey-day, NZ flax (phormium) has returned as “the drama queen of trendy garden designs” in LA. According to TV horticulturist Maureen Gilmer, “Phormiums are the most exciting new plants to enter the American…
New Zealand | Guardian (The)
13 May 2001
Gardening is sexy and the green-groupies flock to Christchurch, New Zealand’s Garden City.
Nature | Guardian (The)
31 March 2001
New Zealand flax gives British gardens a spiky edge.
Science/Tech | Ananova
25 March 2001
New Zealand – SkunkShot, created by Victoria University scientists, hits the garden with eau de skunk; unwelcome cats and dogs keep their distance.
Nature | Sunday Times
11 March 2001
A New Zealand silver astelia adds elegance to Irish garden designer Dominick Murphy’s small garden.
Nature | Washington Post
1 March 2001
New Zealand olearias feature in celeb-gardner Penelope Hobhouse’s top picks.
Nature | Sunday Times
28 January 2001
Plant New Zealand hebe for a “calming, understated and very grown-up” look.
Nature | News24.com
17 January 2001
Gardening makes you happy says Judith Kidd of Massey University.
Nature | Sunday Times
10 September 2000
New Zealand plants have a distinctive look to them, and the tree-fern is perhaps one of the most unusual. Ponga trees are a hot item in the UK. Home Front TV gardener Diarmuid Gavin highlights them on…
Nature | Sunday Times
27 August 2000
The Sunday Times garden columnist, Dan Pearson, gets all excited about Phorium tenax: New Zealand flax, or Harakeke. He’s found its adaptation to New Zealand’s harsh coasts makes it the perfect windbreak for a seaside garden…
Nature | Scotsman (The)
2 July 2000
The Scotsman’s gardening writer Carolyn Spray recommends an esoteric Wanganui website: “If you’re as passionate about delphiniums as I am, you’ll love this site … All about growing, pests and diseases likely to occur, it also has…
New Zealand | Boston Globe
6 April 2000
In the English-speaking world, New Zealand (with a much lusher climate than Australia) is becoming popular because you can enjoy gardens from October through February, thanks to the equitorial inversion of seasons.