Steve and Louisa Portman share some of the secrets to happy, flourishing container plants.

Take a bare plot of land on a hillside in Eketahuna, add plenty of horse manure to enrich the soil then wait for the worms to work their magic.

In late spring, many of us keep a keen eye out for the ‘peonies for sale’ flag to go up at a gate on Ponatahi Road. What some may not know is that they are the delightful legacy of a remarkable woman, Louise St John. Tor White, Louise’s daughter, talks to Katherine Robinson about Ponatahi Peonies.

When an eight-year-old Heidi Holbrook scattered wildflower seeds in her family's Napier garden, she had no thought it would lead to a major growing project decades later in her adopted Wairarapa home.