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Pick of the Bunch —
our favourite horticulture
and related sites
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| New
Zealand Gardens Trust |
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The New Zealand Gardens Trust was established
by the RNZIH and aims to promote the best in New Zealand gardens
and horticulture. The NZGT website features a nationwide database
of public and private gardens to visit.
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| New
Zealand Notable Trees Trust |
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The New Zealand Notable Trees Trust was
also established by the RNZIH, in association with the NZ
Arboricultural Association. This trust continues the national
scheme established in 1978 to identify and register heritage
trees.
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| New
Zealand Arboricultural Association |
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The NZAA represents Arborists throughout New Zealand.
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| NZHITO
— New Zealand Horticulture Industry Training Organisation |
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To provide excellent, innovative and relevant training for our
stakeholders that empowers individuals and enables horticultural
industries to create wealth for New Zealand.
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| New
Zealand Professional Florists Inc. |
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A non-profit making organisation founded with the sole objective of raising the national standards of floristry.
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| bestgardening.com
— A New Zealand Resource for Gardeners |
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"Everything for New Zealand gardeners: gardens,
feature articles, design ideas, plant notebook, practical gardening,
garden events and much more."
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| Garden-NZ |
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New Zealand website that presents a variety of
garden news and information.
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| New
Zealand Gardens ONLINE |
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"Garden Information for Enthusiastic Gardeners."
Includes Garden
Forum, Gardens
to Visit, NZ
Native Plants, The
Rose Garden and Garden
Links.
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| Science
Behind Your Garden |
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Written with the home gardener in mind, providing
an understanding of the fascinating science behind gardening.
Developed by Crop & Food Research and HortResearch, with funding
from the Royal Society of New Zealand.
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| HortSource |
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A directory for the New Zealand Horticulture Industry.
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| Liddle
Wonder |
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Website of Liddle Wonder, containing
images and details of a wide variety of pants.
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| Naturally
Native NZ Plants |
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Specialist growers of New Zealand native plants since 1980. Their
website includes an online
plant catalogue.
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| New
Zealand PlantFinder |
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Meg Gaddum's database that makes plant hunting easy. Over 46,000
plants listed from NZ nursery catalogues. (Online database is currently unavailable and redirects to a Facebook page).
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| Nursery
World |
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"Gateway to the Nursery Industry in New Zealand". Broad site covering
everything in the gardening, nursery and horticulture industries.
Commercial Horticulture Magazine, Trade Days, Nursery Registers, seed
suppliers, Reference Publishing, gardening, plants.
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| Weekend
Gardener |
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Website of New Zealand's fortnightly do-it-yourself consumer gardening
magazine. The magazine provides a wealth of gardening and horticultural
information of wide interest, some of which has been reproduced on
the RNZIH website.
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Bonsai
in New Zealand |
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New Zealand Bonsai Association, the nationally recognised portal
and repository for information about the New Zealand bonsai scene.
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| Cactus and Succulent
Society of New Zealand |
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Has links to websites of branches throughout New Zealand, as well
as the Cactus
and Succulent Plant Mall (CSPM), an Internet resource for all
growers of cacti and succulent plants.
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| National Dahlia Society of New Zealand |
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"Founded in 1938 and is an organisation set up to promote our favourite flower the dahlia, and to offer guidance and advice on the cultivation and showing of dahlias in New Zealand."
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| New
Zealand Alpine Garden Society |
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The NZAGS hold monthly meetings and have an annual seed exchange list.
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| New
Zealand Camellia Society |
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Information on membership, national shows, contact details including branches throughout New Zealand, and image galleries.
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| New
Zealand Carnivorous Plant Society |
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The New Zealand Carnivorous Plant Society is a nonprofit making
organisation, formed in 1982 in response to the growing interest in
Carnivorous Plants.
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| Herb Federation of New Zealand |
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"Dedicated to promoting the knowledge, use and love of herbs, through community education programs, research, and sharing the experience of its members with the community." Includes National Plant Collection Holders and Local Herb Societies
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| New Zealand Iris
Society |
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A non-profit society dedicated to the iris and its band of admirers.
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| New Zealand
Native Orchids |
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An outstanding site dedicated to the native orchids of New Zealand.
Contains articles from the NZ Native Orchid Group Journal, a large
photo section, descriptions of the various species, their habitats,
and more.
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| New
Zealand Plant Protection Society |
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Their main objective: "To pool and exchange information on the biology
of weeds, invertebrate and vertebrate pests, pathogens and beneficial
organisms and methods for modifying their effects."
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| New
Zealand Rhododendron Association |
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An Association formed in 1944 that promotes all aspects of Rhododendron growing in New Zealand.
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| New
Zealand Rose Society |
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"The New Zealand Rose Society (Inc) is a non profit organisation dedicated to promoting the cultivation of the world’s most favourite flower."
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| Weedbusters
New Zealand |
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Weedbusters is a weeds awareness and education programme that aims
to protect New Zealand's environment from the increasing weed problem.
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| Neil
Fitzgerald Photography |
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A diverse selection of New Zealand nature photographs,
from plants and fungi to invertebrates, birds and landscapes.
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| NZ
Plant Pics |
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A website developed by Paul Ashford (a landscape
planting designer from Dunedin, New Zealand). Contains images
of New Zealand garden plants, both native and exotic.
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| Action
Bio-Community |
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"The Action Bio-Community project is building capacity for biodiversity
management in councils and communities across New Zealand."
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| Biodiversity
Information Online |
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Information about Aotearoa New Zealand's native biodiversity, what
is being done to help conserve and manage it, and who is involved.
The information and work programmes covered in this site are part
of New Zealand's long-term commitment to conserve its natural heritage
under the New Zealand Biodiversity Strategy.
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| Environment
and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand |
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New Zealand's network of groups which share a concern for the environment.
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| Forest and Bird |
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A New Zealand based conservation organisation that works for the
protection of New Zealand's native forests, threatened species, marine
heritage and for a healthier environment.
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| Landcare
Research Home Page |
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Includes New
Zealand Plant Names Database, PeoplePlants
Infobase, and Manaaki
Whenua Press
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| Natureandco.com
— Discover Nature in New Zealand |
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Justifiably claims to be "the best site of New Zealand's nature".
Main sections include Land
& Wildlife, Travel
& Adventure, and Conservation.
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| New
Zealand Department of Conservation — Te Papa Atawhai |
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| New
Zealand Ecological Restoration Network (NZERN) |
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"A non-profit, community-driven organisation dedicated to
sharing knowledge and experiences about native habitat protection,
management and ecological restoration in our special land - Aotearoa-New
Zealand."
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| New
Zealand Plant Conservation Network |
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Established in 2003 with the vision that 'no indigenous species
of plant will become extinct nor be placed at risk of extinction as
a result of human action or indifference, and that the rich, diverse
and unique plant life of New Zealand will be recognised, cherished
and restored'.
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| Project
Crimson Pohutukawa & Rata Conservation, New Zealand |
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Project Crimson is a charitable trust that aims to protect New Zealand's
endangered pohutukawa and rata trees.
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| Australian
National Botanic Gardens |
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"Inspiring, informing and connecting people with the Australian flora"
A useful and comprehensive site with many links to the conservation,
cultivation and study of Australian plants.
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| Australasian
Native Orchid Society |
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Dedicated to the cultivation, conservation and
scientific study of native orchids in the Australasian region.
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| Australian
Institute of Horticulture |
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The professional association for qualified Horticulturists
in Australia, including Landscape designers, educators, writers,
nursery people, etc.
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| DELTA
databases |
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Descriptions, illustrations, interactive identification,
and information retrieval. Includes Families
of Flowering Plants and Grass
Genera of the World.
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Internet
Directory for Botany |
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A really extensive and useful site containing
about several thousand botany and horticulture related links.
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| The
International Plant Names Index (IPNI) |
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Database of the names and associated basic bibliographical
details of all seed plants. IPNI is the product of a collaboration
between The
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, The Harvard
University Herbaria, and the Australian
National Herbarium.
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| Tree of Life web project |
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A collaborative effort of biologists from around the world. On more than 10,000 webpages, the project provides information about biodiversity, the characteristics of different groups of organisms, and their evolutionary history (phylogeny).
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