NZ Gardening

Gardening is one of the mega-trends occurring globally with most people making their first foray into gardening with a vegetable and herb garden. This is a new book in the phenomenally popular Yates series of books. Practical and accessible and highly illustrated, it is suitable for gardeners of all skill levels. In addition to information on growing over 50 types of vegetables and 30 herbs, the Yates Vegetable Garden also includes: Building a garden; Gardening in containers; Soils, compost and worms; Organics and companion ... read more

With clearly set out and easy-to-follow weekly and monthly tips, useful gardening information and planting guides for each major Australasian climatic zone, Yates Garden Planner will see you safely through the gardening year.

Following the success of Yates Young Gardener: Growing Things to Eat, Janice Marriott's latest gardening book is packed full of ideas for outside fun and learning. With experiments like making shrunken heads, a butterfly feeding jar or fungus garden, or even designing a dream garden, this book is packed full of activities for you to do in your home garden. Look out for KIA - short for Mr Know-it-all - offering useful advice along the way, Nurse Nasturtium, teaching you how to keep safe in the garden, and the Red Hot Poker Joker, wh... read more

The second edition of The Tui New Zealand Vegetable Garden contains all the essential gardening information you need, no matter what size garden you have. For beginners, it explains how to condition the soil, how and where to plant and harvesting tips. There is also a section on how to combat pests and diseases in order to build a healthy and thriving garden. The second edition builds on the information from the first by including new vegetable varieties and ways to cook the produce you grow, additional, up-to-date informati... read more

This fully updated and revised 77th edition provides reliable, practical advice on all aspects of gardening: designing and planning your garden; preparing and maintaining your garden; organic gardening; water-saving gardens; gardening for kids; low-allergen gardens; pests, diseases and weeds; handy hints from NZ's top gardeners; container gardening for courtyards. You will find everything you need to know about growing trees, shrubs, vines, flowers, vegetables, herbs and fruit in Yates Garden Guide - the essential companion for al... read more

In this lavishly illustrated book, 20 of New Zealand's top landscape architects and designers offer their wisdom and advice on landscaping with native plants. These personal narratives showcase some of our country's most beautiful out-door environments, from private gardens to public recreation land, urban and industrial spaces, and even farmland. Stunning photographs by John Maillard capture the uniqueness and splendour of each location, from Kaeo in the Far North to Queenstown in the south.

One of our best-selling titles (years ago!) was New Zealand Native Plants for Your Garden by Julian Matthews. This new title by gardening writer and photographer, Dennis Greville, will reintroduce native plants to the New Zealand gardener. Native plants have had a resurgence of popularity in recent years because they are loved by designers and planners for their low maintenance and sculptural qualities as well as the fact that the cottage garden look is no longer fashionable. The book will feature great close-up images of plants as... read more

The Grower's Cookbook is for people who like the idea of growing their own food, but have little expertise, limited space, and very little time. It has suddenly become very popular to grow your own veges - whether the motivation is environmental concerns or as a defence against the rapidly rising cost of store-bought vegetables. The Growers Cookbook shows you how, with minimum effort, you can have delicious fresh produce at your fingertips all year round. What to grow, how to plant from seeds, how to maintain your plants and when t... read more

As well as an A-Z section on NZ flowers covering plant care and maintenance, the book will include sections on: choosing the right flowers for the right place; annuals, bulbs, perennials, roses, climbers, natives and wild flowers; edible flowers, flowers for fragrance, flowers for children; flowers to attract birds, flowers for drying, flowers for weddings and flowers for remembrance; tips for flower arranging; a flower colour guide. There is also a seasonal Garden Diary that outlines what needs to be done in the garden at which ti... read more

More than any other people in the world, Kiwis live their lives in the backyard. Whether it's a quarter acre or a tiny patch of lawn, owhether you aspire to a burgeoning veggie garden and a few chooks or to relaxing by a palm-edged pool, a good spot for your barbecue is always a must. The Kiwi Backyard Handbook is an essential if you're planning a garden makeover. It contains more than 15 easy but impressive projects with step-by-step photographs to stir up your creativity, along with a wealth of good advice to get you start... read more

SEASONS - a journey through the garden showcases a startling array of plants and their ever-changing forms and colours. Photographer Sally Tagg spent three years capturing seasonal displays of flowers and plants at Auckland's Botanic Gardens. The result is a stunning collection of photographs that celebrates the diverse beauty of the garden world. Accompanying Sally's spectacular photographs is a tribute to each plant's unique character written by respected plant expert and Director of the Botanic Gardens Jack Hobbs. Also included ... read more

The ultimate guide for every home gardener! All the information you need regarding likes and dislikes, requirements and care, common problems, harvest and the nutrition of your favourite vegetables and herbs as well as a guide to when to sow and plant.

In a world where mass-produced food often lacks taste and freshness, more and more people are growing their own vegetables This new edition of Annette McFarlane's gardening classic offers gardeners an authoritative and comprehensive guide to growing an extensive range of organic vegetables. As well as outlining the basics - how to plan your garden and prepare soil, make compost, develop a planting guide, propagate, and sow and germinate seeds - it offers a mass of new and exciting material. 'Garden to Gourmet' explains how to grow ... read more

This new revised edition of the only comprehensive guide to NZ's ferns and fern allies, includes all native species and subspecies, plus all the established, introduced species, Keys and descriptions enable them to be readily identified, and all are superbly illustrated.

Palmer's Manual of Trees, Shrubs and Climbers is a comprehensive and accurate guide to more than 3500 species and cultivars of trees, shrubs, climbers and other landscaping plants authentically named and described, with information on how and where to grow them in temperate-climate gardens. This book takes the guesswork out of plant selection. With its help you'll get to know your plants and their requirements, and you'll have fewer failures while your gardening activities will become more rewarding and enjoyable. First publishe... read more

Whether you live on a lifestyle block or you have a couple of planters in the back yard, you'll be surprised to find how easy it is to raise fresh, tasty vegetables and herbs for the table, especially with Dennis Greville's new book on hand to guide you. Illustrated with his superb photos, many taken at his own thriving plot in Christchurch, Get Fresh first lays the groundwork for all you'll need to know, from preparing the site and soil to cloche and greenhouse gardening, controlling pests and diseases, and other topics. It then p... read more

The popularity of organic gardening continues to rise as people increasingly want to control the quality and freshness of the food that they eat. And organic gardening isn't just about creating delicious healthy food for the table; it's also about nurturing nature. Specially tailored to New Zealand's growing conditions, Growing Organic is a handbook of eco-friendly and health-aware gardening techniques for sowing and growing fruit, vegetables and herbs, and much more. From selecting tools to propagation, crop rotation, watering, we... read more

Partly through a revival of interest in classic gardens, and partly out of a reaction to the severe, minimal look that dominates the style magazines, gardeners are increasingly turning to colour. In Colourful Gardens Dennis Greville takes us through the essential steps in creating a gloriously eye-catching garden. The introduction explains how to structure a garden along the basic principles of colour combinations. The following chapters are then given to the different colours or tones: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue/Purple, Whit... read more

It is perfectly possible to enjoy a range of salads throughout the year, provided the garden is kept well tilled and fertilised, ready to replace one season's salad ingredients with the next. Structured around the four seasons, this book describes a range of plants, including herbs and some fruit, with notes about their growing requirements.

Managing Pests and Diseases: A Handbook for New Zealand Gardeners is a completely revised edition of Rob Lucas's successful publication What's That Pest? It provides New Zealand's horticulturalists and gardeners with a simple, comprehensive, easily-used reference guide to pest identification and control. The photographic content has been significantly increased to aid identification, and much of the text has been updated, with several new sections added. The book covers the many garden and nursery production pests of bedding plant... read more