Gardening is What We Know & Love
Camarosa strawberries, a short-day variety, produce a main crop in December. Known for their flavourful, firm fruit and disease resistance, they thrive in well-drained, sunny spots. Optimal growth can be achieved with Nitrosol and seaweed fertilizer. Due to high demand last year, secure your plants promptly to avoid missing out.
Fancy some Instant colour for Pots and garden beds, Our Famous Polyanthus are now in Flower with Beautiful bold colours to choose from, you wont be disappointed with these beauties.
Packed full of vitamins, feijoas are incredibly versatile and can be used in baking, desserts, preserves, salsas as well as savoury cooking. Ever since their introduction to NZ in the 1920s, horticulturalists have developed new feijoa varieties and they are, quite honestly, one of the easiest fruit to grow! When the fruit is at its …
Monarch Butterflies (Kākahu) need all the help they can get. We certainly know that they are prolific eaters so if you have lots of caterpillars with a limited food supply, we have lots of swan plants to keep them happy! 🌱🦋🌱 Available now in punnets and individually potted. 🌱
We're counting down to a well-earned rest! Please note the adjusted opening hours over the next couple of weeks. 🐈⬛
The Christmas tree is up ... and the Nursery is brimming full of great gift ideas. A new spade for Dad, a beautiful rose for Mum, a pelagonium for Aunty, an apple tree for the teacher, or a cute garden ornament for Gramps? Maybe treat yourself to some more potted colour for the festive season? …
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Clem & Smokey 🐈⬛ have managed to arrange for an extra rose order this season and they've just arrived! Many of your favourites, including My Mum & Loving Memory are now back in stock for as long as they last. Have a look here at the list we have left in stock or pop in. 🌹🌹🌹
The perfect choice in filtered light under tall trees in the garden, and equally suited for pots and containers. Lower light and away from direct sun is the best place for tuberous begonias. Feed them once a month, and remove the smaller male flowers to improve the length of flowering and quantity of blooms. With …
Have you got a spot in the morning sun or dappled shade? A fuchsia might be just the treasure you need to bring in a little colour (or a lot! 🙂). Fuchsia flower for so many months, and the colour and form combinations really need to be seen to be believed. Baskets varieties, shrubs and …
The first of this season’s roses are showing their true colours 🌹