Fruit for you
Home grown fruit, grown naturally (without chemicals) with all the
minerals and elements added to the growing medium, have very high
nutritional values plus health giving properties. Read More >>
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Greetings!
Welcome to Groundwork. 
Firstly congratulations to the North Island team who won the Great North &
South Landscape Build-Off at the Ellerslie Flowershow.
Congratulations to us for being a Top 10 website for Lifestyle in New Zealand
- Hitwise don't have a landscaping, gardening or nursery section so we pile in
with all the others and we are always chuffed to improve our position in the market.
It is very clear that
landscaping, gardening, chooks and growing our own fruit and vegetables is having a huge renaissance in New Zealand. Why
we ever stopped producing our own food is beyond me - perhaps it is the co called convenience
of supermarkets, fast food or all those color television sets Selwyn used to
give away on "It's in the bag". Anyway, it's worth celebrating that more
and more people are turning to their gardens for sustenance, relaxation and
the good life!
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Landscape Design Workshops
Design your own garden with Robin Shafer
Seminar
style workshops in which you work step-by-step with Robin Shafer
completing your own garden design using a fun and affordable hands-on
method. (Auckland)
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View the Landscaping New Zealand build Competition at The Ellerslie Flower Show earlier this month.
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Balustrading Concepts are the leader in the design,
construction and implementation of aluminium and glass railing systems
in the Auckland area. If you are looking for an exeptional supplier of gate and balustrade systems remember them and bookmark their portfolio.
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Digger Dan's Monthly Garden Tips
Read the latest Digger Dan gardening tips article for infomration about the veggie garden, the rest of the garden and lawn care for March. View article here >>
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Ellerslie International Flower Show Highlights
To view a brief slide show of Ellerslie International Flower Show highlights click here
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Mining National Parks ?
We have publsihed several articles about this issue. Where do you stand? Are we informed enought about the effects of this type of mining?
Are you completely against it or do you think it is a good thing?
Check out the articles and add your feedback
Tags: Opinion & Debate , Mining
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Editors Picks
General and unrelated funny things, oddities and interest
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Rhubarb Sour Cream Cake by Helen Jackson
Ingredients
160g butter
350g brown sugar
2 eggs
500g rhubarb, sliced into 2cm pieces
finely grated rind of 1/2 orange
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
300g flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
250ml sour cream
brown sugar and cinnamon for top
Method
Preheat
oven to 180 C Beat butter and brown sugar until creamy.
Add eggs one at
a time beating well after each addition. Stir vanilla
then the sifted flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Gently
fold
in sour cream. Pour half the batter into a greased and lined 22cm round
cake tin and then top with rhubarb and orange rind. Cover with remaining
batter.
Sprinkle mixed brown sugar and cinnamon over the top. Bake
for 50-60minutes.
A foodlovers.co.nz recipe
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That is all for this month!
Kind regards,
Adv. Cert. Landscape
Design & Construction
Editor | Managing Director
Landscapedesign.co.nz Limited
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