Gillian Vine

In South Australia, there is a push to have more community gardens so that people will eat more fruit and vegetables.

Formerly unused land at a Dunedin school has been turned into a productive community garden. Gillian Vine reports.

Waihola gardens are in the spotlight tomorrow, reports Gillian Vine.

Gardening was a Waihola woman's way of meeting her neighbours, Gillian Vine learns.

Gillian Vine gets excited about Southland.

Stuck for an idea for a present for a gardener? Gillian Vine has some suggestions.

Former New Zealand Woman's Weekly gardening editor Denise Cleverley has given Yates Garden Problem Solver a makeover, so it bears little resemblance to its ancestors, the 1990 Yates Garden Doctor or the 2000 and 2006 editions of Yates Garden Problem Solver.

The Otago Iris Group is holding its first show tomorrow. Gillian Vine reports.

Dunedin is looking rosy during the next couple of weeks, Gillian Vine says.

A Waikouaiti small garden is big on trees. Gillian Vine reports.

Three Dunedin gardens will be open this month to raise funds for a cancer charity. Gillian Vine visits one of them.

Carrots are often lauded as being easy to grow, but their exponents tend to omit three qualifying "ifs": carrots will do well if your ground is not too rich, if the soil is fine and if the minimum temperature is above 5degC when seed is sown.

Photographer Rob Suisted rightly gets top billing (writer Matt Turner's name is not printed on the cover) for Wildflowers of New Zealand. An elegant collection of images, most of them in close-up, it illustrates a selection of our unique flora and - unlike some other books on the subject - has no introduced plants.

Sow and plant now for summer colour, says Gillian Vine.

The World Daffodil Convention, which is being held in Dunedin next week, offers plenty for the public. Gillian Vine reports.

There is nothing more delicious than home-grown vegetables. Gillian Vine suggests some that do especially well in the South.

There's a lovely photo in My French Affair of a glamorous young blonde with Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr.

Recent young adult fiction runs the gamut from extremely good to incredibly tedious.

Spring is around the corner and the gardener is tempted to plant. Gillian Vine looks at what flower and vegetable seeds can safely be put in now.