Our garden blog

It’s what you don’t see that makes the difference. Devices that draw water from the surface allow the homeowner to enjoy beautiful landscaping above ground. These ideas below won’t break the bank, but they will improve water absorption around the garden. The field drain. In the areas of your property...

The winterless north has now become the summerless north and so gardeners have a few hurdles to overcome in the aftermath of Auckland January floods. We offer some advice.

The Auckland floods have caused immense damage to homes, gardens, parks, and property—disrupting lives and putting even more stress on housing, transport and household budgets. These extreme weather events are undoubtedly increasing in frequency and severity, so what can we do to make our suburban landscapes more climate resilient?

At Central Landscape Supplies we’ve seen an explosion in interest in gardening and landscaping while people have been at home these past two years. Read on to find out the key trends we’re expecting to see in New Zealand gardens in 2023. The Garden Sanctuary Photo courtesy of sunset.com With...

Here’s a garden checklist for a great summer season.

We have just held our annual Central Landscape Supplies Franchise Awards for 2022. Some seriously hard work has gone into this past year with all its ups and downs and we were pleased to get together and celebrate. Our franchisees run seven day a week businesses and are passionate about...

The fruit and vegetable garden Assisting eggplant flowers to pollinate – use a small paintbrush to transfer pollen between flowers. Eggplant flowers are pale mauve and droop downwards, so they’re often overlooked by the bees. A regular squirt of water over the bean plants is said to increase bean production. Picking regularly...

We talk to Claire Talbot from Sculpt Gardens about the many benefits of mulch.

Get your garden space ready for those summer BBQs with Feinwerk pavers. Thinner, lighter, stronger Feinwerk Pavers are made of stronger stuff. With a high cement content and fibre reinforcement, Feinwerk pavers are thinner and lighter without compromising on strength. These trade-quality pavers are safer to carry with reduced risk of injury,...

Central Landscapes has a wide range of great mulches (all from recycled products or by-products of timber processing) to lock in moisture at the roots of plants. Give it a boost: Apply blood and bone before spreading mulch to add some nitrogen for the plants.