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In this issue
Competitions & giveaways
Wally Richards - the wonderful raised garden
Heirloom summer vegetables
Digger Dan - it's growing time!
Foodlovers recipe: Moroccan lamb pizza
Designing gardens for progressive gardens: Case Study
Welcome to our new clients
New Auckland garden design event announced
This month's "pick of the bunch"
Findaplant.co.nz
Some light relief from YouTube
Industry news
Join us on social networks

Competitions  

To enter a competition, click on the link, answer a question and voila, you're in the draw.

 

 

Win $5000 of gardening and landscape supplies courtesy of Central Landscape Supplies.   To enter click here. 

 

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We have 2 x one year subscriptions to Homestyle magazine to give away.  For details click here .  

 

Pukeko

Beautify your outdoor space with a piece of Selao Garden Art. We have a $100 gift voucher to give away - for details click here

Wally Richards - the wonderful raised garden

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Wally shows us how to build a simple raised garden, perfect for growing vegetables.

Read the article here.

 

Daylight saving has begun and it's a great time to potter in the garden.  And although now is also the time for planting tomatoes, he warns about the dreaded psyllid pest and offers advice on how to manage it.
Read the article here.  

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Read more from Wally here including how to control Codlin moth in your apple trees; and MBL, the greatest gardening product he's found since the spade was invented.   

    

Heirloom varieties of summer vegetables   

 

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Ginny Clayton from Ginny's Herbs is delighted that many of the old vegetable varieties can still be found and grown today.

Read the article here

Digger Dan central landscapes  

Digger Dan - Spring! It's growing time again

 

Spring has sprung and there's plenty to do in the garden.  Digger Dan tells us what needs doing in the vegetable patch, in the flower garden and your lawn.

   

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To read all of Digger Dan's tips click here.

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Moroccan Lamb Pizza  

Our favourite moroccan flavours on a homemade pizza - divine!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ingredients:

1/2 quantity pizza dough or use a store bought base 

2 tblsp oil

500g lamb mince

1 red onion, finely chopped

1 tsp ground cumin

1 tsp ground coriander

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

2 tblsp tomato paste

1/2 cup hummus

3 tomatoes, roughly chopped

1/2 cup flat leaf parsley, roughly chopped

salt and freshly ground pepper

2 tblsp extra virgin olive oil

 

Method:

Use a half quantity of pizza dough, allternatively use a store bough pizza base!


Preheat oven to 220 C. Heat oil in a frying pan and quickly brown the mince over a medium high heat.

  

Reduce heat and add onion, garlic, coriander, cumin, cinnamon and season with salt.  Cook for a few minutes until onion has softened a little and mince has cooked through.

 

Either roll pizza dough and line an oiled 32cm pizza pan with dough or use your store bought base.  Spread with tomato paste and then top with the lamb mince mixture.

 

Cook for 12-15 minutes until base is golden and crisp.  Remove from oven and allow to cool for a few minutes and then top with dollops of hummus, tomato, parsley, sea salt and ground pepper and a drizzle of good olive oil.

 

Serve warm or at room temperature

Greetings!

 

It's a great word 'bunting' - origin unknown, but originally the term for material made from wool and cotton from the early 17th century and used for festive flags.  It reminds me of the Famous Five and is a bit 'anyone for tennis', but there is loads of it hanging about our cities at the moment.    


buntingThe palms in the street outside our office have also been jazzed up with some woolly 'tree cosies' made by local artists  which give the street a bit of charm during the World Cup.  Pretty flash!  

 

Talking about flash, the flash mob Hakas (love 'em or hate 'em) are pretty powerful and a recent McHaka in Napier would have made the hairs on the back of the meat patties stand on end.   

 

Take a look at it here

 

As well as our regular advice columns, this month we have a great case study about designing gardens for progressive architecture; we highlight a new garden design event in Auckland; and share a funny YouTube video. 

 

Enjoy!

   

Regards  

Tim Durrant and the Landscapedesign.co.nz team  

 

PS - don't forget to enter our competitions - there's $5000 of outdoor supplies to be won! 

Designing gardens for progressive buildings - a case study by Philip Smith. 

 

One of the most interesting challenges associated with designing gardens for progressive buildings is bedding them back into the context of the neighbourhood in which they are situated, writes Philip Smith from O2 Landscapes

 

The way in which this garden, within Auckland's inner suburbs, meets the street is one of the most important aspects of its design.   

 

Philip Smith house  

It was important that the garden bears a lightness that complements the impressive architecture of the house.  

 

 

This is, in large part, achieved by the use of diverse native plantings on the main boundary, which contain a considerable number of threatened plant species.

 

 

To read more click here.
 

A warm welcome...... 

 

This month we welcome Christchurch based Trents Nursery to Landscapedesign.co.nz. 

 

Trents Nursery 

Trents is an established wholesale nursery supplying top quality plants to retail outlets, landscapers and nurseries nationwide.

The nursery is also the largest Flower Carpet Rose producer in the Southern Hemisphere.

 

Read more about Trents here.  

 

Designers front for Auckland's new garden design event

 

The Garden Design Society of New Zealand (GDSNZ) and Newmarket Rotary have joined forces, unveiling plans for a new garden design event kicking off in Auckland this spring.    

 

The inaugural Auckland Garden DesignFest will take place on 19 & 20 November.

 

Whilst the concept is unique to New Zealand, the format and name have been borrowed from a highly successful event held every two years in Melbourne.

 

Professional garden designers have been invited to submit gardens which best reflect their style and the finest examples will be featured during the weekend garden event.

 

For more information click here. 

 

Petunia "Black Velvet" - this month's pick of the bunch

  

A lover of all things black, my assistant editor Sarah just couldn't go past the launch of the world's first black petunia "Black Velvet".     

 

Like the essential LBD (Little Black Dress), "Black Velvet" goes with everything and looks amazing planted on its own or combined with small white flowered varieties such as Lobelia, Verbena and Bacopa.   

 


"Black Velvet" is available now at garden centres around the country.  To read more about this easy growing petunia  click here.   

new findaplant NZ's online nursery and plant finder - have you checked it out ?   

 

This month's YouTube pick:   

Webcam 101 for seniors..... 

 

This month we've found a goodie - and although we are in the technology business, we can assure you it's NOT only seniors who have trouble with webcams........  

 

Enjoy!  Watch it here. 

 

 

 

 

NGIA life member Mark Dean wins major conservation award  

 

New Zealand native plants have come  full circle from bad boy to favourite child with the announcement that a long time campaigner and conservationist has been awardeMark Deand the Minister of Conservation's prestigious Loder Cup.

 

Tauranga resident, Mark Dean has been named as this  year's recipient.   He was nominated for the award by the Nursery and Garden Industry Association,(NGIA) for his services to botany.  

 

Read full article...  

  

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Kind regards,

 

Tim Durrant

Adv. Cert. Landscape Design & Construction

Editor | Managing Director

 

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