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A
A feast for
slugs
A mitey problem
Abutilon
Acanthus mollis
- Bear's breeches
Adding horse
and cow manure to composts
Agave damaged
Ailing apple
trees
Ailing blue spruce
Ailing camellias
Ailing hedge
Ailing indoor palm
Ailing indoor
plants - 1
Ailing indoor
plants - 2
Ailing junipers
Ailing maple
Ailing michelia
Ailing peppertree
Ailing puka
Ailing weeping cherry
Algae on gravel
Alstroemeria
not flowering
Alstroemerias
Angst with
aphids
Antiquing with
moss
Ants everywhere
Aphids
on Brussels sprouts
Aphids on chives
Aphids
on swan plant
Arsenic damaging garden?
Astelias
being eaten
Australian Two-Spined
Spider
Avocado tree
Awful oxalis
Azalea
flowers dying
Azaleas
Top
B
Bamboozled
Bank covered
in weeds
Basil year-round
Battered banana
Bay tree blues
Beetles and
bugs
Berries for
Idesia
Best snail bait
Birds
eating crabapples
Bitter cucumbers
Black
mould on citrus
Black mulberry tree
Black spot
on roses
Black
spots on citrus
Black spots
on swan plant
Blackbirds
in garden
Blackcurrant bushes
in a bad way
Bladder plum
disease
Bleeding Eucalyptus
Blooms & bugs
Blueberry bush
Borer in my mandarin
tree
Borer in wisteria
Bottle brush
Brassicas
not their best
Brew for the garden
Bringing
in butterflies
Bringing out the colour
in roses
Brittle robinia
- 1
Brittle robinia
- 2
Brittle
tamarillo tree
Broadleaf
weedkillers
Bromeliads
for cool spots
Bromeliads
in bloom
Bronze
beetle damage
Brown leaves
on Pyracantha
Brown palm
Brown spots on
my broad beans
Brown spots
on yucca
Browning
rose buds
Browntop a better lawn?
Brussels Sprouts
Bug alert
Bugs and diseases
Bugs on Hibiscus
Bugs on indoor
plants
Bugs on my Cannas
Bugs on my veggies
Bugs on orchids
Bugs on palms
Bugs on rhodies
Bulb fly
Bulb fly
on daffodils
Bulbs
affected by weather
Bush
rose 'Graham Thomas'
Buttercups
and Agapanthus
Buying beneficial
bugs
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C
Cabbage
tree cultivation tips
Cabbage tree
scale
Cabbage trees
yellowing
Callas and
Clivias
Camellia leaves
turning brown
Camellia troubles
Camellia
won't flower
Camellias yellowing
Can I grow tomatoes
in winter?
Can I use sphagnum
in my potting mix?
Caring for my Magnolia
Caring for my Vireya
Caring for passion
fruit
Caring for Wisteria
over winter
Carrot fly
Carrot rust
fly
Carrots
being attacked
Cats in the garden
Caterpillars
Caterpillars
eating kowhai
Caterpillars
on kowhai - 1
Caterpillars
on kowhai - 2
Caterpillars
on my plants
Catnip leaves turning
purple
Chamomile
request
Chemical-free
roses
Cherry and
plum trees not flowering
Cherry woes
Chewed rose buds
and leaves
Chewed up
veggie patch
Choisya
not so choice
Cicada damage
Citrus not
growing
Citrus verrucossis
Citrus won't
fruit
Clematis
from seed
Clematis killer
Clerodendrum
Climbing
roses for the coast
Club root
Club
root in brassicas
Coal in the soil
Coastal colour
Codling moth
Codling moth on fruit
trees
Combating oxalis
Comfrey and
Yarrow
Compost or
sludge?
Condys
crystals and grubs in raspberries
Conifer dying
Controlling
boysenberries
Controlling
passion vine hopper
Controlling
powdery mildew
Controlling
puff balls and toadstools
Cornus slow
to grow
Crabapple
'Toms Fileck'
Cracked cacti
Crooked dealings
(carrots and parsnips)
Curled
leaves on daphne
Curly carrots
Cycad on the
move
Cycad turning
brown
Cypress
hedge dying off
Cypress Leylands gradually
dying
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D
Daphne dilemma
Daylilies
dying off
Dead-loss
daff blooms
Dealing
with liverwort
Death of lemon
tree
Diminishing
grapefruit
Discouraging dogs
Diseased cabbage
trees
Diseased
crab apple
Diseased
cucumbers
Diseased Liquidambar?
Diseased
magnolias
Diseased tomatoes
Does my Yucca need
repotting?
'Doggy' patches on lawn
Dreaded onion
weed
Droopy roses
Dry grapefruit
Dwarf apple
enormous
Dwarf flaxes
Dying pony tail
palm
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E
Earwigs in
dahlias
Eradicating arum
lilies
Eradicating
jasmine
Eradicating
Oxalis
Evergreen climbers
in tubs
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F
Far from
magic beans
Feijoas with leaf roller caterpillars
Fertilising a lawn
Ficus in the office
Ficus Reginald
Flaxes under
attack
Flies in worm compost
Foliage,
but no flowers
Frangipani
looking ill
Freesias
not flowering
Fruit drop - 1
Fruit drop - 2
Fruit
drop on citrus tree
Fruit drop on lime tree
Fruit split on
citrus tree
Fungal fuchsias
Fungus and mildew
on roses
Fungus on lemon tree
Fungus on tree
Furcraeas
Top
G
Gathering moss
Getting rid
of bamboo
Getting rid
of Dichondra
Getting rid of
liverwort
Getting rid of Paspalum
Getting rid of pesky
plants
Getting
the best from rhubarb
Gold
turns sneaky silver
Grapes in
decline
Grass grub
Grass grubs - 1
Grass grubs - 2
Grass tree
browning
Green
Goddess, not!
Green pumpkins
Green shield
beetles
Growing beans
Green beetle
Growing bluebells
in New Zealand
Growing
chillies in winter
Growing garlic
Growing kumara
Growing kumara,
yams and potatoes
Growing macadamias
Growing mango
from seed
Growing mangoes
Growing pineapple
Growing
plants under mature trees
Growing tamarillos
Growing yams
Growing
yams and leeks
Top
H
Hebe loses leaves
Hedging your
bets
Holes
in pepper tree leaves
Holes in strawberry
leaves
Holes
in orchid flower
Holy succulents
Horse manure for
the garden
How can
I protect my plants from frost?
How do I best grow my
leeks?
How do I look after my
fruit trees?
How do I protect
my veggie planter box from frost?
How to
stratify seeds
Hoya won't
flower
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I
Ideal soil mix
Improving clay
soils
Improving soil
Improving soil
quality
Indoor ficus - 1
Indoor ficus - 2
Invasion
of thrips
Invasive bamboo
Ivy and jasmine are
attacking my natives
Ivy taking over
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J
Japanese
bitter orange
Jeyes Fluid
Juiceless lemons
Top
K
Katydids on my
citrus
Katydids on roses
Killing off
oxalis
Kinky brassicas
Kitty litter
in the compost?
Kitty quandaries
Kiwifruit
and conifers
Kniphofias
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L
Lack
of pollinators and weeds in compost
Lanky potatoes
Lavatera woes
Lavender woes
Lawn fungus
Laying
down a thyme lawn
Leaf curl on
peach tree
Leafless begonias
Leggy cabbage
trees
Leggy grevilleas
Lemon tree
over-fertilised
Lesions on
tamarillo
Less than lush lavender
Less
than perfect pansies
Leucadendron
flowers rotting
Lichen
on my azaleas
Lichen on my feijoa
trees
Lichen-covered
tree
Lime
chips detrimental?
Liverwort
a nuisance
Looking after
avocados and citrus
Loopy caterpillars
Lopsided lemon
Loquat not
fruiting
Lost its
golden touch (tainui, Pomaderris kumeraho)
Low strike rate
for Ranunculus
Lumpy leaves
Lumpy
leaves on camellia
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M
Macrocarpa
mulch for sandy soil
Maidenhair care
Making a
meal of it
Maggots
in potting mix
Mealy
bug on Clematis
Mealy bugs
Mealy bugs on pony tail
palm
Mealybug
Mildew on
dahlias
Misshapen
strawberries
Mite menace
Monarch caterpillars
gone
'Mop
Top' Robinias causing headache
Moss in lawn
Moth orchids
sulk (Phalaenopsis)
Mould on African
Violet
Moving
a mandarin tree
Moving a maple
Mulberry tree
Mulching bamboo
My anemones
won't flower
My anthurium
won't flower
My chives flower
too soon
My daphne smells
horrible!
My daphnes are
losing their leaves
My Edgeworthia
is yellowing
My
frangipani won't bloom
My gerberas won't
flower
My hebes won't flower
My
hibiscus flower too late
My Hydrangea
won't flower
My irises are being
eaten
My kaffir lime is poorly
My kittens chew
my indoor plants
My succulents are
being eaten
My tomatoes are
segmenting
My tomatoes won't
ripen
Myrtle cuttings
Myrtle tree
Mystery tree
Top
N
Name that poppy
Narcissus
fly attacks
New garden site
No flowers
on my Hippeastrum
No seeds
on sunflower
Not so
perfect pansies
NPK fertiliser
Top
O
Odd bromeliads
Old trick
Onion weed and oxalis
Orangeberry (Rubus
pentalobus)
Ornamental
cherry oozing goo
Ornamental
grapes
Oxalis and ginger
Top
P
Palm reading
Passionfruit
splitting
Patchy lawn - 1
Patchy lawn - 2
Patchy lawn - 3
Patchy
leaves on echium
Peaches
not so peachy
Pesky bullrushes
Pesky snails
Pesky weeds
Pesky weevils
Pesky whitefly
Pesky whiteflies
Pesky whitefly
- 1
Pesky whitefly
- 2
Pesky woodlice
Pests on beans
Pests on
raspberries
Pine needles are killing
my grass
Pittosporum
problems
Plague of aphids
Plague of thrips - 1
Plague of thrips
- 2
Plagued with
whitefly
Planting in
pots
Planting
shelter belts
Plants for exposed deck
Plants
for holiday home
Plants to repel mosquitoes
Plum tree not
fruiting
Pohutukawa - 'bubbles'
on young leaves
Pohutukawa
with curly leaves
Poor fruit
on mandarin
Poorly Knights
lily
Poorly peace lily
Poorly pepper
tree
Poorly protea
Poorly puka and
golden ake ake
Poorly xeronema
Port wine magnolia
with yellow leaves
Potato blight
Potato woes
Powdery
mildew on oaks
Powdery
mildew on rhodo
Praying
mantis - good or bad?
Preventing leaf
curl and die-back on fruit trees
Primroses
changed colour
Problem with weeds
Problematic
lilies
Problematic
passionfruit
Problems
with Pukas
Problems with slaters
Producing
giant pumpkins
Propagate Scleranthus
biflorus
Propagating
cypress
Propagating
dianthus
Propagating
karaka
Propagating
natives from seed
Propagating
tree paeonies
Propagating yuccas
Protecting avocado
trees
Pruning a cherry
tree
Pruning a
clematis
Pruning a
cypress
Pruning a yucca
Pruning apples
Pruning
apricot and plum trees
Pruning Citrus
Pruning fuchsias
Pruning hydrangeas
Pruning Mexican
Orange Blossom
Pruning Oleander
Pruning Pandorea
Pruning
passionfruit
Pruning roses
Pruning
standard roses
Pruning tamarillos
Pruning wisteria
Pseudopanax woes
Pumpkins,
courgettes not producing
Top
Q
Quince tree with leaf
spot
Top
R
Radishes
Red bottlebrush
tree
Red-brown patches on
lawn
Red-flowering
manuka
Red-less rhubarb
Removing
moss and hydrocotyle from lawns
Removing suckers
Removing tree stumps
Repotting
anthuriums
Resprout a cabbage
tree
Retarding
grass growth
Rhodo won't
flower (Rhododendron yakushimanum)
Rhododendron
care
Ribbonwood trees
Root
rot in potted plants
Rosa 'Margaret
Merrill'
Roses under
attack
Rosemary hedge
Rotting feijoa
Rust and black spot
on roses
Rust in Roses
Rust on freesias
Rust on gerberas
Rust on gladioli
- 1
Rust on gladioli
- 2
Rust on rhubarb
Rusty leaves
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S
Sad-looking
lilies
Sad-looking
yucca
Safe-to-eat
spuds?
Sauromatum
venosum
Saving a
naranjilla
Saving
sunflower seeds
Scale (on
lemon tree) and brown tips (on hydrangea)
Scale
insect on Norfolk pine
Scale insects
Scale-like
creatures on bromeliad
Scaly-skinned
citrus
Scarred leaves
Seed sowing
Serious sandflies
Shade trees
Shallots
Shaping abutilons
Shifting a
nikau
Shifting
tree ferns
Shirley and soldier poppies
Shoot on ponytail
Short on selenium
Should I have moved
my magnolia?
Shy dogwood
Shy Poor
Knights lily
Sick cabbage tree
Sickly indoor
palm
Silk tree with frost-bite
Silver birch
Silvering
rhododendrons
Slow composting
Slug-resistant
plants
Slugs on
apple tree
Slugs on
plum tree
Smelly and gluggy
compost heap
Solomon's
seal taking over
Something's
eating my camellia buds
Something's eating my
canna lilies
Something's
eating my citrus
Something's eating my
kowhai
Sooty mould
Sooty
mould on citrus
Spider mite on roses
- 1
Spider
mite on roses - 2
Spiky citrus
Spittle bugs
Split hibiscus
Splotches
on flax and cabbage trees
Spots on
bromeliads
Spots on
hippeastrum
Spotted
pittosporum
Spotty dahlias
Spray drift
Spreading
alstroemeria
Sprouting
ponytail
Stemming
borer scourge
Stephanotis
from seed
Stinging nettle
Stinging
nettles a curse
Straggly
olive trees
Strange avocado
Strangled
by moth plants
Stunted hyacinths
Success
with impatiens
Succulent
won't flower
Suckering
Pernettya
Syringa
'Katherine Havermeyer'
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T
Taking cuttings
from Dracaenas
Taking cuttings
from orange trees
Tamarillos
Tamarillo troubles
Tamarillo
won't fruit
Tecophilaea
cyanocrocus
The right bamboo
Thinning citrus
Thorny lemon tree
Thrips a curse
Thrips damage
Thrips
on potted vireyas
Thuja infested with moths
Tiny
worms eating my plants
Tomatoes and blight
Tomatoes in polythene
bags
Tomatoes
won't fruit
Too much
snail bait?
Training a weeping rose
Transplanting
a Dracaena
Transplanting
a fern
Transplanting
citrus
Transplanting
lilies
Transplanting
red Cordyline
Transplanting
trees
Tree borer
Tree ferns in pots
Trees wrong
colour
Trimming a queen
palm
Trimming alder trees
Trimming lavender
and herbs
Trouble
sowing brassicas
Trouble with
beans
Troublesome Oxalis
Tuberose tips
Tulips swamped
Two-spotted
mite
Two-stemmed
pine
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U
Underplanting
a Phoenix palm
Ungainly Gardenia
Unhappy bay
laurel
Unhappy hydrangeas
Unhappy roses
Unhealthy
citrus tree
Unhealthy hostas
Unhealthy rose
Unhealthy roses
Unhealthy tomatoes
Unhealthy
Wisteria
Unsightly irises
Unusual flower
Unwanted tree
stumps
Unwelcome
inhabitants
Using chemicals
in the garden
Using pyrethrum
Using raw seaweed
on the garden
Using vinegar to deter
cats
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V
Venus Flytrap
Viburnum leaves
turning brown
Top
W
Wandering Willie
Waning wisteria
Warding off
scale (on golden totara)
Wasp nest
Water
Gardens - Adding water to pond
Water
Gardens - American Skunk Cabbage
Water Gardens
- Aphids on water plants
Water
Gardens - Aponogeton dystacius
Water
Gardens - Best water lilies
Water
Gardens - Bio filters
Water Gardens -
Calla lilies
Water
Gardens - Clean ponds
Water
Gardens - Combating algae
Water
Gardens - Controlling duckweed
Water
Gardens - Copper pipe
Water
Gardens - Corkscrew rush
Water
Gardens - Dividing water lilies
Water
Gardens - Dizzy fish
Water
Gardens - Fibre Optic Plant
Water
Gardens - Fish dying
Water
Gardens - Fountain
Water
Gardens - Gasping fish
Water
Gardens - Goldfish varieties
Water
Gardens - Grass carp
Water
Gardens - Growing aquarium plants outdoors
Water
Gardens - Growing carnivorous plants
Water
Gardens - Growing lotus plants
Water
Gardens - Hungry fish
Water
Gardens - Leaking pond
Water
Gardens - Leaking ponds?
Water
Gardens - Lifting water irises
Water
Gardens - Oxygenating plants
Water
Gardens - Planting water lilies
Water
Gardens - Pond filters
Water
Gardens - Problems with pond liner
Water
Gardens - River boulders
Water
Gardens - Sealing ponds
Water Gardens
- Sludge build-up
Water
Gardens - Submerged plants
Water
Gardens - Tubifex worms
Water
Gardens - Using river boulders
Water
Gardens - UV clarifier
Water
Gardens - Water hawthorn
Water
Gardens - Water lilies
Water
Gardens - Water lily pots
Water
Gardens - White Cloud Mountain Minnows
Water
Gardens - Winter plants
Water
Gardens - Yellow water iris
Water
Gardens - Zebra Rush
Waterlily
camelia
Watery woes
Wayward plum
tree
Weeds
among chamomile
Weeds in lawn
Weeping cherry
Weeping fig
Weeping fuchsias
What are rose hips used
for?
What can I plant
in my clay soil?
What
next for cyclamen?
What
to do with wood ash?
What's
bugging my hibiscus?
What's
eating my macadamia nuts?
When to prune Hibiscus
Where
are all the flowers? (Dwarf Australian frangipani, Hymenosporum
'Gold Nugget')
Where are the acorns?
Where
do the monarchs go?
White mould on
Astelias
White secretions
on Grevillea
Whitefly
infestation
Why
won't my pepinos ripen?
Will lavender grow
in shade?
Will
my swan plant survive?
Wilting Photinia
Wilting tulips
Wind-damaged
plants
Wind tolerant
plants
Winter
care for succulents
Wireworm in amongst
the veggies
Wisteria in
containers
Woolly
growth on fruit tree
Woolly nightshade
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X
(no listings)
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Y
Yam seedlings
Yellow
leaves on citrus - 1
Yellow
leaves on citrus - 2
Yellow leaves
on cycad
Yellow
leaves on lemon tree
Yellow
leaves on michelia
Yellow
leaves on puka
Yellow
leaves on Rhododendrons
Yellow yuccas
Yellowing daphne
Yellowing
gardenias
Yellowing
leaves on cycad
Yellowing Phoenix
palm
Yew who
Yucky-looking
yucca
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Z
Zucchini fruit rotting
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