Garden Riches & Gourmet Delights Tour Photos
Wellington, Wairarapa & Waikanae – A Tour with a Difference! HOUSE GARDENS & HIGH TEA 6 Day Longer Break 17 – 22 March 2012
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Monthly Tips & Tasks December 2011
All About Gardening, December 2011 with Michael Coulter On checking the rain gauge, it was found that we had 25 mms of rainfall last night. Michael asked whether everybody had seen the cabbage trees this season. It was the most prolific flowering he had ever seen. Maori legend has it that if the cabbage trees … Read More
White Heron West Coast Tour Report & Photos
Although atrocious weather conditions greeted the White Heron tour group in Whataroa, spirits could not be dampened! A quick shuffle of the programme due to river flooding meant we started the tour with the stunning Fox and Franz Josef Glaciers where we were delighted to see the green orchid in flower. By day two the … Read More
Monthly Tips & Tasks November 2011
With water restrictions in force much of this months talk was again about ways of making hand watering more effective. The use of lengths of nova flow drainage pipes put in the ground near trees and shrubs that can be filled with water on permitted days will direct the water into the root zone of … Read More
The Green Grocer’s Rhubarb Cake with Streusel Topping
There is a small cafe/health food store in Kumeu called The Green Grocer. They make a divine Rhubarb Cake. Ingredients 125g butter 1 ½ cups lightly packed brown sugar 2 eggs, lightly beaten 2 cups plain flour 1 tspn baking soda 1 cup sour cream 2 cups diced rhubarb Streusel Topping ingredients 1/4 cup sugar … Read More
Lemon Cornflake Crunch
Ingredients 125g butter 2 cups flour 1 tsp baking powder ½ cup chopped walnuts 1 cup coconut 2 tbspns golden syrup 1 ½ cups sugar ½ tspn vanilla ½ cup chopped dates 2 cups cornflakes 1 egg Melt 125g butter, 2 tbspns golden syrup and add beaten egg. Mix in remaining ingredients. Press into greased roasting … Read More
Raisin Pumpkin Muffins
Ingredients 2 cups flour 2 tspn baking powder 1 ½ tspn ground mixed spice 1 cup sticky raisins 1 cup milk pumpkin seeds Sift flour into bowl. Stir in brown sugar, baking powder, baking soda and spice. Remove seeds from pumpkin pieces and microwave for 5 mins until cooked but firm. Remove skin and cut into … Read More
Canterbury Horticultural Society
The Canterbury Horticultural Society began with the colonisation of Canterbury in the 1850’s. It was originally called the Christchurch Agricultural, Botanical and Horticultural Society. In 1861 the group split and the Horticultural arm became the Christchurch Horticultural Society. This changed its name in 1898 to become the Canterbury Horticultural Society, which today is the largest … Read More
Magnolia Campbell
Each spring the first Magnolia to flower is Magnolia campbelli. It is a stately tree suitable for slightly larger gardens and well worth growing. This deciduous Himalayan species eventually grows 24 m tall with a 12 m wide crown in the right conditions and there are few this size in NZ, usually they are a … Read More