Auckland Botanic Gardens at Manurewa, South Auckland

Auckland Botanic Gardens at Manurewa, South Auckland

Before I worked in Auckland Botanic Gardens in November 2008, I took it for granted they are pretty gardens for people to enjoy. Auckland Botanic Gardens is located right next to the Southern Motorway (SH1) on Hill Road at Manurewa. Auckland Botanic Gardens is opened from 8am to 8pm during daylight saving hours (summer) and 8am to 6pm during non-daylight saving hours (winter). How I got the job at Auckland Botanic Gardens? There were only two specific positions I wanted to try, Gardener at Auckland Botanic Gardens and Park Ranger for Auckland Regional Parks.

Secret Gardens to Take Refuge In

Secret Gardens to Take Refuge In

Secretgarden landscaping is simply creating a small garden within a larger garden which is enclosed from the main view of the garden. Size and Space
Secret gardens do not have to be big - indeed they work better if kept relatively small as they are a 'room' built within the main garden.
No space is too small for a garden with personality - one that works for you. Creating a secret garden especially for your children has great benefits.

A Garden Centre Christmas Is A Great Day Out!

A Garden Centre Christmas Is A Great Day Out!

Christmas is a magical time of year with people brightening up their homes and gardens to make the most of the festive season, so it makes sense that centres across the UK are turning themselves into spell-binding places for a garden centre Christmas. People can combine their shopping trips for festive decorations and Christmas trees with delicious Christmas meals for the whole family and even visits to Father Christmas!

Best Uptown Charlotte Hotels - A Review of The Hilton Garden Inn

Best Uptown Charlotte Hotels - A Review of The Hilton Garden Inn

The Hilton Garden Inn of Uptown Charlotte is located within the major financial and entertainment districts of the city. Upon entering the building, a guest will immediately see the Porte Cochere, the front desk, the lobby, and the on site restaurant. The uptown distract the hotel is located in is home to numerous museums, restaurants, and shopping malls.

Chinese Gardens and Fountains Are Clues to the Mind

Chinese Gardens and Fountains Are Clues to the Mind

garden centreountains are more than collections of beautiful plants, trees and water. The principles of classical Chinese gardening can be useful and insightful to garden lovers living anywhere in the world. Chinese design objectives can inspire American home gardeners to try something new such as a garden fountain and encourage the expression of culture and philosophy through gardening.

Art in the Garden

Art in the Garden

What does your garden say about you? One easy way to give your garden a bit of personality is to dress it up with garden art and structures. Garden décor should reflect the style and personality of the garden, the gardener, and the surrounding architecture (i.e. your home). If you live in a Tudor and tend a traditional English garden then accessorize with classic garden structures like arbors and outdoor furniture with a more formal feel. Larger embellishments such as garden structures like gates and obelisks tend to stand out in big gardens.

Vegetable Gardening - A Hobby for Everyone

Vegetable Gardening - A Hobby for Everyone

The Rewards of Vegetable Gardening

If you love to have fresh produces in the spring and summer, you should consider creating a home vegetable garden. Growing a vegetable garden is a fun and healthy hobby that anyone can excel at.

Home vegetable gardening relieves stress and allows you to be out in the sun. Vegetable gardening is proven to lower blood pressure and clear the mind. The Pros of Organic Gardening

One great aspect of home vegetable gardening is that it does not require a bunch of chemicals. Therefore, home vegetable gardening allows you to have more natural, juicy, and healthier vegetables that are also better for the environment. Growing your own vegetable garden and using less chemicals yields natural food.

Green Tongues - Quotes about Gardening

Green Tongues - Quotes about Gardening

Gardening gives one back a sense of proportion about everything - except itself. ~May Sarton, Plant Dreaming Deep, 1968.

Through gardening, we feel whole as we make our personal work of art upon our land.--Julie Moir Messervy, The Inward Garden, 1995, p.19.

Gardening requires lots of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. The home gardener is part scientist, part artist, part philosopher, part plowman. Gardening is an exercise in optimism. The best place to seek God is in a garden. In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses. In my garden there is a large place for sentiment. My garden of flowers is also my garden of thoughts and dreams. Weather means more when you have a garden. ~Unknown.

Don't wear perfume in the garden - unless you want to be pollinated by bees. It is thy pencil; take thy seeds, thy plants,

They are thy colours.~William Mason, The English Garden, 1782.

Unemployment is capitalism's way of getting you to plant a garden. How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made 

By singing: -"Oh, how beautiful!" and sitting in the shade. ~Rudyard Kipling, "The Glory of the Garden".