Gardening in New Zealand

Parnell Rose Gardens during the 2006 Rose Festival.

Gardening is a popular pastime in New Zealand. A 2007/2008 survey of physical activities found that 43% of New Zealanders had participated in gardening in the previous 12 months.^[1] A range of books, magazines and television programmes are dedicated to the topic.

New Zealand has restrictions on trading during the Easter holiday break, and in recent years garden supply centres have flouted the law and remained open.^[2]

Gardens[]

Botanical gardens[]

Arboreta[]

Events[]

Gardeners and horticulturists[]

Maggie Barry presented a television show and writes a gardening column
Bob Berry
Lady Anne Berry
William Douglas Cook
Barbara Winifred Matthews
James William Matthews
Eion Scarrow
Emily Stevens

Environmental issues[]

With the European settlement of New Zealand, which occurred in relatively recent times from an ecological perspective, a wide range of plants were introduced into the country for both agriculture and for gardens. Many of the plants went on to become invasive species.^[3]

Some notable examples of invasive plants that are used in gardens include:

Agapanthus (Agapanthus praecox)
Blue morning glory (Ipomoea indica)
Old man's beard (Clematis vitalba)

References[]

^ "Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity Participation Among New Zealand Adults: Key Results of the 2007/08 Active New Zealand Survey" (PDF). SPARC Aotearoa.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ NZPA (21 April 2011). "Stores to flout Easter laws". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
^ Sullivan, J.J.; S.M. Timmins; P.A. Williams (2005). "Movement of exotic plants into coastal native forests from gardens in northern New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 29 (1): 1–10.

External links[]

New Zealand Gardens Trust
Royal New Zealand Institute of Horticulture
New Zealand Alpine Garden Society
Garden Design Society of New Zealand
"Garden plants invading our bush" at the Department of Conservation

[1] "Sport, Recreation and Physical Activity Participation Among New Zealand Adults: Key Results of the 2007/08 Active New Zealand Survey" (PDF). SPARC Aotearoa.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[2] NZPA (21 April 2011). "Stores to flout Easter laws". The New Zealand Herald. Retrieved 20 January 2012.

[3] Sullivan, J.J.; S.M. Timmins; P.A. Williams (2005). "Movement of exotic plants into coastal native forests from gardens in northern New Zealand". New Zealand Journal of Ecology. 29 (1): 1–10.

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