Garden

Landscape designer and gardener Xanthe White provides some tricks and tips relating to planting, pruning and harvesting. Audio

Landscape gardener Xanthe White is with us this spring day - with some tips on how to keep the costs of gardening down. Just how can you get plants for free?. This is particularly pertinent for… Audio

Author, plant lover and former BBC documentary maker Jonathan Drori joins the show for a chat about some of the latest botanical news. This week, Drori discusses a ragwort-filled garden and the fact… Audio

How and when non-native ornamental plants, like agapanthus or bamboo, jump the garden fence and go rogue, is a major area of focus for Lincoln University plant bio-security professor, Phil Hulme… Audio, Gallery

A Natural Year follows Wendyl Nissen's tranquil life in the Hokianga countryside over a twelve month period. She joins the show to discuss her new book and how the move to self-isolation in the… Audio

Vaughn Davis is the owner and creative director at  The Goat Farm. He offers his thoughts on a public toilet built in the darkest hours of WW2 - a story of beauty and hope that is entirely relevant in… Audio

Jennifer Kerr from The Compost Collective explains the basics of the three main methods of composting, and gives us her top composting tips. Audio, Gallery

It's been ten years since chef and food writer Catherine Bell co-founded the Garden to Table Trust, teaching children to grow, cook and share food. Since then, 23,000 children, in years three to six… Audio, Gallery

New Plymouth couple Carl and Kati Freeman have converted their quarter-acre section into a small-scale organic market garden and now they want to teach others how to do it too. Video, Audio

A community project in a formerly derelict part of Whanganui, rife with gang tensions and vandalised houses is now providing life skills and employment hope. What began as one man's vision for a… Video, Audio

The 1769 Garden commemorates the first encounter between Maori and the crew of the Endeavour, under the command of Captain James Cook, at Gisborne in October 1769. Audio

Carol Creighton lost her eternity ring while gardening in Balclutha 11 years ago. It turned up yesterday on a carrot in her garden. Video, Audio

Ron Finley and other gangsta gardeners like him are planting to transform their neighbourhoods, in some of America's most notoriously dangerous places. For Ron the story begins in front of his house… Video, Audio, Gallery