Gardening & Crafts

Rose Thodey and Gil Hanly are legends in gardening and gardening media circles, and their LANDSCAPES: GARDENS BY NEW ZEALAND'S TOP DESIGNERS published by Godwit in 2005, has now gone into a third reprint. This handsome sourcebook is aimed at creative home gardeners looking for inspiration to develop or redevelop their properties, whether those properties be courtyard gardens or extensive...

Digital scrapbooking is the exciting fast-growing hobby that's taking the craft scene by storm. Instead of cutting and pasting your pictures into an album, you use digital photos, clip art, graphic textures and embellishments to make mementoes on your computer screen. They can then be printed out onto paper, fabric and ceramics - mutliple times. Now for the first time a New Zealand book that...

Decorating and designing with mosaics has been popular for centuries. Mosaic is incredibly versatile and a whole range of effects can be achieved using ceramic, vitreous glass, marble, mirror or granite tiles.This stunning book explores the use of mosaic through 19 beautiful step-by-step projects for the garden. Adorned pots, garden figurines and ornaments, a bird bath and table, a sundial and...

More and more people are turning back to growing their own food in this time of rising food and petrol costs and plummeting house values. And for some time now, primary schools have been teaching their students how to grow plants and have extra-curricular garden clubs. Children don't need to know everything there is about edible gardening to get started. Nor do their grownups. The book is...

Grow It, Cook It is the must-have book for everyone who loves the idea of growing fruit and vegetables from their own garden and turning them into healthy and delicious meals for themselves and their families. Packed full of recipes, Grow It, Cook It is an inspiring book for those with little time and space for a garden, as well as those who already love growing their own produce, but need a...

New Zealand has a unique and attractive native plant life that is of interest to everyone from gardeners and trampers to students of botany and ecology. In Know Your New Zealand Native Plants Lawrie Metcalf introduces a selection of the most interesting, iconic and important New Zealand plants, spanning latitudes from subtropical to temperate, and altitudes from sea level to alpine mountaintop,...

From James Busby on, European settlers made gardens from the moment they set foot on New Zealand soil, and of course Maori had extensive cultivations of kumara around their kainga. Many settler gardens were matters of survival - kitchen gardens on which families were reliant - but as individual circumstances allowed and prosperity spread, many gardens became increasingly ambitious and extensive....