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Summer comes and everything in the garden goes, or rather grows, into double time. You need to be everywhere, picking and planting, weeding and...

The journal New Scientist has dispelled some old wisdom about the need to water your garden early in the morning before the day warms up. It says that's not necessary, and sometimes it's not a good idea - same with watering in the early evening. How can this long-agreed-on idea be wrong? Editor of NZ Gardener, Jo McCarroll joins us.

Here are the Sunday team’s ultimate picks for gifts - the things we’ve bought, loved, cherished, and would buy again.

An Auckland man has lost “years of his heart and soul” after more than 40 of his miniature trees were taken from his Mount Albert backyard.

Barricade your berries or the birds will get them before you do. Plus harvest new potatoes, get lawns ready for summer and sow carrots.

Expert tips from NZ Gardener's Jo McCarroll and Mei Leng Wong, and Auckland Botanic Gardens' Jack Hobbs.

From tackling couch grass and whitefly to getting started with kaka beak, our experts had solutions to your lockdown garden problems.

From tackling couch grass and whitefly to getting started with kaka beak, our experts had solutions to your lockdown garden problems.

Covetable houseplants which can sell for hundreds of dollars were just $40 – to the surprise, delight, then anger of collectors.

I think we can safely say I do not possess that. Joanna Davis/Stuff Crowd-sourced advice However, what I do have, to quote Liam Neeson, is a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. That is ‘picking the brains of others’. I’m a member of two Facebook houseplant groups; mainly I use them for plant porn, admiring the work of others, occasionally committing to memory the name of a plant I may like to acquire some time. But in all honesty, I still can...