Monthly Garden Guides

September is a great month to kick off those gardening and landscaping projects you've been waiting to do all winter! Read on for more tips and advice for your yard and garden this month.

August marks the transitional period from winter to spring here in Aotearoa, New Zealand, making it a crucial month for gardening and landscaping. Read on for our comprehensive guide for August.

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.

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

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...

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

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

This lovely country garden just got a top-up of our Forest Floor mulch. After the wet winter mulch is the best way to take advantage of all the moisture in the soil.