Time to Prune
This is one of the best times of the year to get out into the garden for a workout and get your plants into shape. Gentle pruning of most shrubs and particularly trees now will keep them trim and shapely all through the growing season One of the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Alpine Plant Survival
Alpine plants live in an extremely harsh environment with low winter temperatures, high winds, low humidity and a very short growing season. In order to survive, they have developed a number of adaptations. Many plants have thick, waxy leaves to ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
New insights into Botrytis
Botrytis cinerea grows mainly on dead leaf tissue in the canopy from which spores are released into the air and accumulate on the fruit during the growing season. The amount of dead leaf tissue increases during the season and is greater in more ... [... more]
HortNET New Zealand |
