Meg Liptrot reports on a Pacific staple's exciting potential.

Meg Liptrot takes pity on plants that hanker after shade and a drink.

Black Magic is in demand, as sweethearts prepare to cast spells over loved ones this Valentine's Day.

A berm in Ellerslie has been entered into a national landscaping competition as part of a vegetable, fruit and flower garden. It even has a beehive.

Meg Liptrot has the perfect Valentine's gift - botanic fragrances from the garden.

As part of a series by POD Gardening, Weleda gardener David Millin gives a glimpse of the company's vast biodynamic gardens in Havelock North, Hawke’s Bay.

Want the freshest produce possible for your restaurant? Start a garden next door. As part of a series of organic Kiwi garden visits by POD Gardening, we call on The Refreshment Room's John Pountney.

As part of a series of interviews with organic Kiwi gardeners by POD Gardening, we visit Fleur Sullivan at Fleur's Place in Moeraki.

As part of a series of interviews with organic Kiwi gardeners by Pod Gardening, we visit Deborah Smith, photographer, and Nicholas Stevens, architect, at their Parnell apartment in Auckland.

Meg Liptrot finds kids enjoying this birds-and-bees lesson with a difference.

A giant flower smelling of rotting flesh could in Auckland this weekend, the first time the rare plant has opened in New Zealand.

From heavy bronze wings to delicately patterned parasols, Danielle Wright is spoiled for choice at Auckland Botanic Garden's fourth Sculpture in the Gardens exhibition.

Meg Liptrot's early summer tasks will keep gardens on track.

The family of a keen gardener who died after using potting mix hopes her death raises the dangers of using the potentially lethal soil.