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PublisheR<br />
Charlotte Smulders<br />
EDITOR<br />
Kate Preece<br />
deputy EDITOR<br />
Shelley Robinson<br />
contributors<br />
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Getty Images, Gillian Vine,<br />
Kristina Jensen, Marilyn Wightman,<br />
Mark Rayner, Rachel Vogan,<br />
Rebecca Lees, Shannon Hunt,<br />
Sue Witteman, Veronica Armstrong,<br />
Wendy Maddison<br />
Design<br />
Klaudia Krupa<br />
Cover Image<br />
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Contents<br />
Issue 494 | july 2020<br />
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Previously Weekend Gardener, Kiwi Gardener<br />
is an independently owned and<br />
operated magazine.<br />
Regulars<br />
8 Editor’s welcome<br />
10 Social<br />
Our ongoing conversations and<br />
wonderful garden achievements.<br />
12 Your garden planner<br />
Make notes and prioritise your<br />
to-do list with essential garden<br />
tasks and timing based on the<br />
moon’s movements.<br />
38 Gardening 101<br />
How to brighten the winter garden<br />
with pops of colour.<br />
92 Garden quiz<br />
Put your gardening know-how to<br />
the test, plus find the solutions to<br />
last month’s puzzler.<br />
93 Your chance to win<br />
Something for your fur baby,<br />
packets of seeds and more!<br />
Kiwi Gardeners<br />
16 Organics in the city<br />
What Levi Brinsdon-Hall and For the<br />
Love of Bees have achieved in the<br />
heart of Auckland.<br />
36 Garden business: Lilyfields<br />
David and Wendy Millichamp<br />
continue the 70-year lily legacy.<br />
48 Organic school<br />
Rebecca Lees continues her journey<br />
with teacher Jenny Perano and<br />
learns about taking cuttings.<br />
60 Passing down the potato<br />
A story that started when John<br />
Lilley popped a potato in his pocket<br />
in 1863.<br />
Special Features<br />
22 The garden arsenal<br />
Sue Witteman outlines the tools<br />
every gardener should have.<br />
40 Tips for terrariums<br />
How to create a stunning miniature<br />
garden behind glass.<br />
74 Don’t panic!<br />
If you are looking to stick to a<br />
budget, Diana Noonan has advice<br />
for some sensible savings.<br />
78 Entertaining chickens<br />
Wendy Maddison on creating a funfilled<br />
poultry playground.<br />
98 Living off the land<br />
Diana Noonan argues with a<br />
misbehaving cyclamen.
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