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Your garden, February 14th

Onions have layers, and so too does your garden. Content only seeing the top layer? Fair enough, go about your day. However, if you really want to peel back the layers check out this gardening guide to know exactly what's at the core of the onion.

Look to nature for a lasting token of love

A living plant is a lasting Valentine’s gift. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Look to nature for a lasting token of love

Happy Valentine’s Day! Today needn’t be a Hallmark holiday. It doesn’t have to cost money and come wrapped in plastic because love is free, and so is the botanic garden. Here’s your invitation to...

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Four with designs on bright futures

The first Otago students to graduate with a master’s of architecture degree (from left) Hunter...

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Four with designs on bright futures

The first graduates from a new master’s of architecture programme are looking forward to making a difference in the areas that interest them. Kim Dungey reports.

Everything is sweeter in Kandy

Kandy and the lake. PHOTOS: MIKE YARDLEY

Everything is sweeter in Kandy

Nature meets nurture in Sri Lanka’s Central Highlands. It’s an uplifting adventure to relish, Mike Yardley writes.

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Hope endures beyond the honeymoon

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Hope endures beyond the honeymoon

When the honeymoon phase is over, it may feel like a bubble pop.

Traces of her journey

The Egtved woman, who died 3395 years ago. Photos: The National Museum of Denmark

Traces of her journey

On a summer’s day 3395 years ago, a young woman in Denmark died and was interred under a tumulus, in a coffin hewed from a massive oak, wrapped in a blanket and an ox hide.

No easy task to rustle photons from a glowing sky

No easy task to rustle photons from a glowing sky

After a week of cloud-choked nights putting paid to any chance of astronomy, the forecast finally promised clear skies last Sunday.

Cooked with love

Once I’d rolled my eyes and thought beyond the schmaltz, I was inspired by the idea of food cooked with love for this week’s Valentine’s Day-themed recipe.

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Courgette soda bread

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Courgette soda bread

Soda bread has to be one of the fastest breads to whip up.

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Refreshing whites ticking the box

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Refreshing whites ticking the box

On a recent family holiday road trip I found myself drinking either white wine or beer: the reds just didn’t get a look in.

Cooking hacks to save time, boost taste

Expert hacks include using yoghurt to elevate your dish and substituting baking ingredients....

Cooking hacks to save time, boost taste

Make a splash in the kitchen — top chefs and cooks share easy ways to take your dinner to the next level.

Cook once, eat twice

With children back in school, the dreaded lunchbox roundabout has begun for another year.

We must turn the page, together

Solar panels on the roof of Parliament House. Photo: supplied

We must turn the page, together

We’re in 2025, and it’s a brand new year, and yet it all feels rather surreal — as if the pages of a dystopian novel (similar to those I like to read) have suddenly become our reality.

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Joining the dance

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Joining the dance

The cover art for Nadia Reid’s new album has the singer-songwriter still dressed in Dunedin black but contemplating a brighter palette.

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Mini adventure on the doorstep

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Mini adventure on the doorstep

One of the benefits of spending summer in Dunedin’s climate is having the place to yourself.

Something sweet for your Valentine

Something sweet for your Valentine

Penelope Maguire turns to some romantic traditions for inspiration.

Establishing new roots

Peter and Joy Horrell brought many plants from their former Southland garden to create depth to...

Establishing new roots

When a Southland couple moved to North Taieri eight years ago, they didn’t just shift their furniture — they shifted their plants as well. Louise Frampton takes a look around the now well...

Finches a treasured addition to garden

A female Gouldian finch at the Dunedin Botanic Garden aviary. PHOTO: NEALE MCLANACHAN

Finches a treasured addition to garden

With summer happening in fits and starts in Ōtepoti the birds at the aviary are all in the process of moulting, except for our Gouldian finches.

Your garden

By now, planting of winter greens broccoli, cauliflowers, silverbeet and celery should be complete.

Naturally stunning

The main road in Flinders Chase National Park.

Naturally stunning

There are not many islands to visit off the South Australian coast, but luckily Kangaroo Island — or KI, as its affectionately known to locals — has you covered in every way, writes...

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