ON THE COVER:
This young fellow tries to get the attention of Big Man - the polar bear in a hoodie which was one of 21 sculptures in the Sculpture in the Gardens display at Auckland Botanic Gardens’ recently. Picture by Kerry Johnstone, see story page 22.

CONTENTS:
NEWS                                                         2
Steady trading over Christmas – Seed sales healthy
– Daltons open gardening school – New owners at Trents
RETAIL ROUND-UP                                    11
Talisman Nursery, Bay Nurseries GC,
The Palms GC, Tumbleweed GC, Nichols Invercargill
AUSTRALIAN / WORLD NEWS                  14
NGIA FORUM                                            21
SCULPTURE AT THE GARDENS                22
275,000 visit the Auckland Botanic Gardens
sculpture exhibition
FEATURE NURSERY                                 24
Signature Plants opens a second nursery
NURSERY ROUND-UP                               28
Plants for Places, Impact Plants,
Russell Fransham Subtropicals,
Rainbow Park Nurseries, Trents Nursery
PERSONALITY PROFILE                          36
This month we meet Debbie Pascoe of
Go Gardening and Inplants
LANDSCAPE MENTORING                        40
Vicki Rule has turned her landscape clients
into students
PLANT BASICS                                        42
Fiona Eadie tells how plants don’t compete
with their own kind
NEW PLANTS – Agapanthus Senna        44