Gardening

A new wave of invasive millipede pests are crawling out of the soil and into homes on Wellington's south coast, but there's a plan to set a parasitic worm onto them in an attempt to control them.

An award-winning landscape designer has weighed into a stoush over the felling of a 100-year-old pōhutukawa in New Plymouth.

Although vegetables need water more frequently, the rest of your plants will be happiest for their soil to get a really deep soaking once a week, gardening tutor Kath Irvine says. Audio

A community gardener in Christchurch is proving you don't need to spend big to establish a thriving food garden.

Along the fence lines of the cyclone-devastated Esk Valley, red roses still turn their little faces towards the pale winter sun, and their unusually strong flush this year has turned heads.