Monthly Garden Guides

Check out our comprehensive gardening and landscaping guide for the month of March including general gardening tips, tips for the ornamental garden, ideas for the edible garden and more!

Planning a garden design project can be a daunting task, but help is at hand! We talked to Kerry Speirs, the lead Landscape Designer at DIY Designs, about the do’s and don'ts when planning a landscape project.

Bring your garden beds back to life with a layer of mulch! Mulch is easy to apply, looks great and might even save your plants by helping the soil to retain moisture.

Check out our top 10 gardening tips to ensure your garden thrives this summer!

We spent the morning with the amazing team from Second Nature, as they mulched and rejuvenated this stunning inner-city garden.

What's the difference between GAP, WAP and SAP metal? What do these terms actually mean? How do you use the different types of aggregate? Get all the answers in our latest blog!

We talk to Landscape Designer Val Puxty about her recent work, working collaboratively with her clients, tips for winter gardening and the value good landscaping brings to a property.

Here's a beautiful way to green up a bare wall or provide privacy without building a fence.

Do this now to encourage strong grass growth when the weather warms up! Winter is only just beginning, and for many Aucklanders, the lawn is already a bog! The heavy rain since the beginning of 2023 has caused stress to lawns, resulting in bare patches where water pools, or bursts...

In this blog, we’re looking at the widespread outbreak of mushrooms on garden soil and mulch - why and when it happens, and how to deal with it. Auckland’s recent unseasonal wet and warm weather has seen a huge increase in the ‘fruiting’ of fungi in the form of toadstools...