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Eion Scarrow

Gardening personality dies

Tributes are flowing for Eion Scarrow, the popular host of the television series Dig This, who died on Anzac Day.

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Chch's Ellerslie Flower Show 'rebuilt'

Organisers hope the Christchurch Ellerslie International Flower Show will go off with a bang – just like it used to.

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Apps to quit smoking and water your plants video

TelstraClear Tech Bytes is back for the year, and Josh Heslop is kicking things off with a new app to help smokers to quit.

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Landscape designer Danny Kamo, and All Black Andy Ellis

Gold medal for quake-inspired Kiwi garden video

Former All Black Andy Ellis and mate Danny Kamo have won a gold medal with their earthquake-inspired garden at the 2012 Singapore Garden Festival.

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John McKay won the Mapua Mega Pumpkin competition with his pumpkin weighing 616kg

Pumpkin weighing 616kg wins comp video

John McKay won the Mapua Mega Pumpkin competition with his pumpkin weighing 616kg.

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The tours are of 50 private homes and gardens around the country

WIN: NZ House & Garden tours, subscriptions

NZ House & Garden Tours are raising money for two New Zealand charities. Win tickets or a magazine subscription.

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The group hopes to attract dozens more gardeners

Kaiapoi gardeners rewarded with national prize video

Kaiapoi residents have been rewarded for their efforts in maintaining a community garden through earthquakes and snowstorms.

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Seeds sold in these easy-to-grow containers come from overseas

Recalled strawberry seeds risk biosecurity

A stern warning has been issued to gardeners who may be ignoring a recall on a strawberry growing kit.

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Growing seasons around NZ vary slightly (file pic)

Gardening according to the weather

After a dozen or so years living in Dunedin, I have developed a deep fascination with the weather.

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For the price of a packet of seeds, take the occasional gardening risk

Gardening - Grow what you like

If you are going to start or expand a vegetable garden it is useful to think about what you want out of it.

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"I am now the proud owner of far too many Habanero chillies..."

Gardening glut: Chillies where berries should've been

In my vegetable gardening career I have been relatively glut-free... until now.

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Jill Warren holds her award

Waimauku property wins 'Kumeu Art in the Garden'

Waimauku gardeners Jill and Vern Warren are have been named the winners in Kumeu’s Best Garden Competition.

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Lynda Hallinan answers your questions: 18 February 2010 video

Over the last couple of weeks you've been sending Sunrise your trickiest gardening questions and queries for gardening goddess Lynda Hallinan.

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Lynda Hallinan

Lynda Hallinan answers your gardening questions video

Sunrise's gardening guru Lynda Hallinan will be answering your gardening questions live on air so send them into us - sunrise@tv3.co.nz

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A stone wall can provide beauty - and exercise

If you feel like getting your blood moving, and with longer-lasting effect than lifting dumbbells, go outside and lift stones. Make a dry stone wall; that is, one laid without mortar.

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An example of a living wall

Living walls may be the ultimate raised-bed garden

Things are looking up for gardeners who are short on space but long on imagination.

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Tips for growing tomatoes video

Tomatoes – they are often expensive and sometimes the flavour isn't what you'd hoped it would be.

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How to attract bug buddies to your garden video

For the home gardener there are few things more annoying than seeing your precious summer crops ravaged by an army of flying beasties.

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Lynda Hallinan

How to help your garden recover from a cold October video

After the coldest October in many years there's damage control to do if you're growing your own Christmas dinner.

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