Gardening Books

*A book that inspires, a book that reminds us of the importance of plants in our lives.* SEASONS – a journey through the New Zealand garden celebrates the captivating beauty of a spectacular array of plants and their ever-changing forms and colours. Sally Tagg spent three years capturing seas...

This new re-written edition of the best-selling NZ classic Which Native Tree? now includes comprehensive ecological information on the tree and its environment. As well as the known uses of each tree, from food and medicine, to dyes, perfume, honey, bootlaces, fire-making and timber it also explains...

The Tui NZ Fruit Garden provides practical, highly illustrated information on how to grow your own fruit and nuts, whether you plan to plant a few containers on your balcony or want to develop a full home orchard. In conjunction with a panel of industry experts, author Sally Cameron explains the fi...

Poetry, prose and pithy observations from gardeners - the perfect gift book for the green fingered!

As a six-year-old he started his own vegetable garden under the watchful eyes of his father and grandfather. Now Don Burke is known as Australia’s foremost authority on all things gardening. Organic covers all that you need to know to start and cultivate your own vegetable garden including compos...

As well as an A-Z section on NZ flowers covering plant care and maintenance, the book will include sections on: choosing the right flowers for the right place; annuals, bulbs, perennials, roses, climbers, natives and wild flowers; edible flowers, flowers for fragrance, flowers for children; ...

This inspiring book has caused a big buzz overseas. Its secret of success: anyone can start growing their own food in a matter of minutes. There are no fancy photos, no complicated instructions … just down-to-earth , easy-to-follow ideas for square-metre plots. The author, Lolo Houbein, ha...

An invaluable companion to Yates Garden Guide, our most popular and highly respected gardening reference, Yates Garden Planner will help you become a better gardener. With clearly set out and easy-to-follow weekly and monthly tips, useful gardening information and planting guides for each major Aust...

With easy recipes using ingredients grown in your window box or the local market, Ethnobotanist James Wong shows you how easy-and cheap-it is to make simple creams, salves, teas, lozenges, and much more. James uses his top-class academic knowledge to reveal how many plants contain the same active in...

Vegetable gardening is big again. Here's a book that takes readers by the hand and shows them how to go from backyard bombsite to organic Garden of Eden in one year. Author Xanthe White, New Zealand landscape-design star, documents a year in the garden she built from scratch in a rundown inner-city ...

A practical and colourful guide for anyone who wants to enjoy the simple pleasures of growing their own produce. A range of topics including: Improving the quality of your soil Making your own fertilizers Organic gardening techniques Companion planting Growing vegetables ...

This useful handbook provides information about a good range of easy-to-grow chili peppers in New Zealand. Each variety is photographed in colour with information about planting, harvesting and storing, as well as any curative properties found in the plant or the fruit. In addition, the book contain...

As life becomes busier and gardeners look for more permanence in their landscaping, foliage plants have come into their own. In this authoritative overview of 114 of the best foliage plants for a range of climates and regions, renowned garden writer Julian Matthews uses stunning photographs to illus...

A handy guide to the identification of New Zealand native trees. Condensed from Andrew Crowe's popular Which Native? series, this little book has been designed to fit into a pocket, day pack or bag. Full of essential information for quick accurate identification of native trees, this new mini guide ...

Whether you live on a lifestyle block or you have a couple of planters in the back yard, you'll be surprised to find how easy it is to raise fresh, tasty vegetables and herbs for the table, especially with Dennis Greville's new book on hand to guide you. Illustrated with his superb photos, many take...

Enjoying a relaxed rural lifestyle on a smallfarm is the dream of many New Zealanders. But running a few sheep and goats on even a modest block can be anything but relaxing if you don't have the farming know-how or experience, and don't recognise the many problems that can occur with livestock and p...

Wild birds can indeed be encouraged to live in the domestic New Zealand garden. The secret is providing the right kind of water, food and shelter. In this brilliant family reference book by Gordon Ell, you'll find everything you need to know to cultivate a property teeming with wildlife. Filled with...

Growing your own vegetables need not be as time and energy consuming as you might think. By choosing the vegetables that you like to eat and that are also easy to grow, you can quickly develop a productive small garden that will provide you with a continuous supply of seasonal produce. Even if you l...

Bill shows you how to grow your own fruit, vegetables and even edible flowers. Create and maintain an edible garden Ensure a successful garden year round Choose the right plants for the situation Easily identify and solve plant problems

Provides advice on the most efficient way to use a limited space to grow healthy organic produce. Gives tips on planting, growing and caring for a wide variety of vegetable, herbs and fruit, with the best available varieties for each listed by name. Author Biography Diana Anthony is a garden w...

How when and why we prune - a comprehensive guide to pruning that is specific to New Zealand conditions. All plants are listed alphabetically by their common name and over 100 trees and shrubs are described, with special emphasis on New Zealand natives. The introductory chapter covers the principles...

A guide to the identification of New Zealand native ferns. Condensed from Andrew Crowe's popular Which Native? series, this little book has been designed to fit into a pocket, day pack or bag. Full of essential information for quick accurate identification of native ferns, this mini guide is appeali...

The name Yates has been synonymous with successful gardening in New Zealand for well over a hundred years, and since its publication in 1990, the Yates Garden Problem Solver has been a popular guide for gardeners with problems. Divided into four colour-coded sections for easy reference, the book cov...

Dennis Greville is respected internationally for his plant and garden photography and is New Zealand's most published gardening author and photographer. Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned gardener, growing year round will encourage and inspire you, with practical advice that will help you ...

A large-format, stunningly illustrated book, celebrating 32 of the country's most inspirational gardens. Kristin Lammerting travelled the length of New Zealand with photographer Ferdinand von Luckner to explore the gardens and talk to the garden owners about the source of their inspiration. The styl...

This practical, highly illustrated guide has been written specifically with the young gardener in mind. The Tui NZ Kids’ Garden contains all the essential information you need to start a garden plus information on the most popular plants young gardeners might like to cultivate. There are al...

Children are rediscovering the pleasures and rewards from gardening and having home-grown fresh produce that their great grandparents enjoyed. The Yates Young gardener covers all the basics of gardening, including soil types, compost, friendly insects and deadly pests, sunshine, sunshine, water and ...

Enjoy exciting colour effects in the garden with seasonal suggestions for year-round colour and simple colour coding to show what will grow where. Colour basics explained in easy to understand terms How to get exciting colour effects in your garden with the minimum of effort Seasona...

A full colour identification guide with lift-out pages containing information relating to identifying native trees in New Zealand. Author Biography Andrew Crowe is a full-time author with a special interest in helping make nature accessible to beginners of all ages. He has written over 40 natu...

New Zealand has a colourful array of both native and introduced wild flowering plants. This handbook provides quick and simple identification of over 200 of these. It contains botanical descriptions, and looks at food use and healing properties of wild flowers.

More than any other people in the world, Kiwis live their lives in the backyard. Whether it's a quarter acre or a tiny patch of lawn, or if you aspire to a burgeoning veggie garden and a few chooks or to relaxing by a palm-edged pool, a good spot for your barbecue is always a must. The Kiwi Ba...

In Grasp the Nettle Peter Proctor tells the reader how to apply biodynamic methods of farming and gardening to a wide range of conditions in New Zealand and in other countries. The book provides practical observations and techniques, and relates these to the spiritual scientific knowledge that biody...

This bestselling book has been fully updated to include the latest available practical remedies and solutions for your garden. Covering a wide variety of common disorders affecting flowers, fruit, vegetables, shrubs and trees, Yates Garden Problem Solver provides clear colour illustrations of weeds,...

A comprehensive, full illustrated book on growing vegetables and herbs in New Zealand for gardners at all skill levels. Gardening is one of the mega-trends occurring globally with most people making their first foray into gardening with a vegetable and herb garden. This is a new book in the pheno...

Managing Pests and Diseases: A Handbook for New Zealand Gardeners is a completely revised edition of Rob Lucas's successful publication What's That Pest? It provides New Zealand's horticulturalists and gardeners with a simple, comprehensive, easily-used reference guide to pest identification and con...

Whether starting from scratch with a new garden or redeveloping an old one, The Complete New Zealand Gardener will guide you through the major decisions you will need to make, and help you create and look after your ultimate garden. This large, comprehensive, practical gardening book has been wri...

This is a straightforward and practical book for the home gardener who wants to grow fresh, healthy vegetables. 'Prof' Walker, well known for his demonstrations on Maggie-s Garden Show, gives simple, practical advice on how to improve and maintain good soil fertility and ensure the right balance of ...

When it was first published in 1998 The Native Garden: Design Themes from Wild New Zealand, was a revelation in which Isobel Gabites argued for a gardening style based around native ecosystems and a reverence for our natural landscapes that offered exciting concepts. So successful that it ran to a s...

Identifying native trees and other common plants of New Zealand's native forest can be fun for all the family with this new pictorial guide. Match leaves, flowers, seeds, berries and bark against beautiful, life-sized photographs for fast, accurate identification. Written by one of New Zealand's fo...

Fruit & veges can be beautiful as well as tasty! Discover the creative fun you can have designing your own ornamental edible garden. Diana Anthony is well-known to many NZ gardeners, through her best-selling books, The Small Edible Garden and The Edible Garden Planner. Here she describes the design...