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