Until you have planted a native garden, I don\u2019t think some of us appreciate how beautiful New Zealand natives actually are. <\/p>\n
They offer gardeners a rich palette of textures, colours, and forms and are well-suited to local conditions. <\/p>\n
Once established, most are fairly hardy and will tolerate a lack of water more than a lot of other plants.<\/p>\n
One of the most beautiful native species that I have seen is a nikau palm, New Zealand\u2019s only native palm species. <\/p>\n
It is in a residential garden in Whanganui, and it must be around 100 years old. <\/p>\n
It takes my breath away every time I drive past it.<\/p>\n
Some natives have a much shorter life span, become leggy and woody, and eventually need replacing, so careful selection, whether for a town or rural property or for riparian planting, is essential.<\/p>\n
An informative book on New Zealand natives, Let\u2019s Go Native, written by Guy Hessell with a foreword by Gordon Collier, is due to be released next month.<\/p>\n
In this book, Hessell shares his 20+ years of landscaping experience to provide practical, inspiring advice for incorporating native plants into gardens of every shape, size, and style, from urban courtyards to sprawling rural properties.<\/p>\n
His practical advice covers everything you need from weed control to informal and formal planting ideas, fertiliser, irrigation, pruning, and selection, just to name a few.<\/p>\n
The photos are inspiring, the tips you will find helpful, and Hessell\u2019s own hand-drawn watercolour planting plans will make planning your own native garden achievable.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have drawn the landscape design plans so the reader becomes the client,\u201d Hessell said.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven though the plans are not specific to your own house, you will see options that can be adapted to suit your needs.\u201d<\/p>\n
With a wealth of practical information, Let\u2019s Go Native will help you visualise the full potential of your own native haven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Until you have planted a native garden, I don\u2019t think some of us appreciate how beautiful New Zealand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2108,1121,17516,8597,30407,199561,78,8596,8587,5338,130,97163,117,111,43,139,69,8595,22213,3111,79503,50844,392,1355,7563,4276,102,80],"class_list":{"0":"post-384542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-zealand","8":"tag-book","9":"tag-case","10":"tag-deserve","11":"tag-gardener","12":"tag-gardens","13":"tag-helpful","14":"tag-in","15":"tag-keen","16":"tag-kem","17":"tag-makes","18":"tag-more","19":"tag-natives","20":"tag-new","21":"tag-new-zealand","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-newzealand","24":"tag-nz","25":"tag-ormond","26":"tag-our","27":"tag-out","28":"tag-planting","29":"tag-recommendation","30":"tag-space","31":"tag-starting","32":"tag-those","33":"tag-why","34":"tag-with","35":"tag-zealand"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}