Emily Davidow's enthusiastic garden experiments and explorations in Aotearoa New Zealand. More →
Life and Death For The Win
Delighted “Pictures of Life and Death,” a garden featuring fungi, lichen and moulds by a team from the Christchurch Botanic Gardens took first place at the Ellerslie International Flower Show in Christchurch this week.
Read more →Green Roofs for Auckland
Emily Harris has a wonderful vision of establishing rooftop gardens for Auckland city-dwellers, so that they can grow their own fresh, healthy food, right on the roof of their apartment buildings.
Read more →Vegetable Sheep
Captivated by New Zealand’s vegetable sheep via Anne Galloway (Raoulia and Haastia species, not to be confused with sheep made from vegetables).
Read more →Pollan’s Rules and Oliver’s Schools
What do we learn about food in school? Not much! But I always learn something useful from Michael Pollan and am moved by Jamie Oliver’s TED Prize wish to teach every child about food.
Read more →Tropical Tuesday
Coffee and bananas are staples — essentials — on my shopping list, papaya and passionfruit whenever in season. But usually, I’m referring to the end produce, not the plant.
Read more →Who’s Laying Eggs in the Okra?
This morning I noticed every leaf of every okra seedling had little crystal beads on the undersides. They look like tiny dew drops and feel like tobiko. That’s eggs. Eggs! Who is laying eggs in my okra?
Read more →Seagarden Log: Weather With You
The weather station is up and running (though not yet in its ultimate location) and publishing through Weather Underground. Enter tomatoes, crystal apple cucumbers, and feijoa! And weta.
Read more →Lettuce Begin Early
I’d noticed greens harvested early in the morning for omelets tasted better and stayed fresh longer than the greens picked in the afternoon or evening. Now I know why…
Read more →Learning from Gardens, Books and Art
Thinking about ‘Cultivating Failure’ and learning from gardens, books and art.
Read more →Opines on Lupines
This beautiful bush sprouted up almost overnight in the front natives garden.
Read more →Terroirist Spy Tools
Hilarious video of Kati London, co-creator of Botanicalls, a device that lets your plant tell you it needs watering via Twitter.
Read more →Lotus Lessons
When collating my dream plants for Seagarden, the lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) was high on my list.
Read more →Daily Om: Healing Gardens
The DailyOm newsletter inspires and often surprises me by addressing an issue or theme that’s top of mind. Today’s, Healing Gardens, particularly resonated.
Read more →Remote Control Gardening
Le Verdure Del Mio Orto (‘The Vegetables from my Garden’) lets you build an organic garden from your web browser and offers weekly deliveries from ‘your farm’ in Northern Italy.
Read more →Solar panel bird box
A bungee bird feeder that drew us to The Balcony Gardener, but the solar powered bird box piqued our interest. Why would a bird need a solar panel?
Read more →Seatoun Weather
