An Index to Blogs on the GHRF Website
Hamilton’s Garden Place Sundial
‘Fine specimens of nikau palm, fern trees and tai tai’: On early use of the ‘New Zealand palm’
“The Zhi Garden Album” and the Vanished Garden Behind It
Ship Figureheads as Statuary in New Zealand Gardens, Part 2: The Wolverine
What’s In a Name? Yarrow and the great Achilles
Ship Figureheads as Statuary in New Zealand Gardens, Part 1: The Hydrabad
A Battleship in the Garden? Unusual Auckland Garden Features from the 1930s
The art of mimicking I: European Gardens in Bogotá (Colombia)
New Zealand’s Garden Great and the Women who Made Him
Wardian Cases, Plant Humanities and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
New Zealand’s Garden(s) of the Hesperides (Part I)
Te Parapara Garden at Hamilton Gardens
New book on garden studies: From Temples to Garden Estates and Academies
Tamarillo; a history of the Tree Tomato and its name in New Zealand
The Oldest Historical Tree in the World
The Donkey of the Devonport Naval Base: Horse Power for the Lawn Mower
Tree Connections with Buildings and Across Time
The Significant Phoenix Palms of Central Auckland
Old Blush Rose of Forest Gate, Ongaonga
Percy Adams and Nelson’s ‘Monte Carlo Palms’
“A Deadly Little Oddity”: the Venus Fly Trap in New Zealand Newspapers
Phoenix palms: beginning a sociological inquiry
Invercargill’s first Borough Gardener
John Cooper’s Topiary Garden, Newman
The Soldiers and the Olive Trees
‘Natural Lifeboats’: Reports of Giant Water Lilies in New Zealand
Hamilton’s Lake Rotoroa – “One of the Town’s Finest Assets”
Oh, ‘Chute! Santa’s near miss with the Auckland Wintergarden Glasshouses
John Cooper’s “World Famous” Topiary Gardens
What’s in a name? Bacchus and the ‘paddle plant’
Hamilton’s Parana Park: “A Haven from the Busy Rush”
Gardens Scenes on New Zealand Stamps
Miss Moore’s school garden, 1910 – 1924
What’s in a name? Punic apples, red trees, and botanical nomenclature
Putting down roots in a new settlement: George Matthews, Dunedin nursery and seedsman
A short history of New Zealand’s ‘The Gardener’s Journal’
There’s more to Hamilton Gardens than meets the eye
Urban conservation and conflict in early Aotearoa: Dunedin Town Belt, 1848-1860s
A Dunedin garden and orchard from 1850-1905
When Ferns went Viral: New Zealand Women and the Global Fern Craze
Video: Japanese Internment, Garden-Making and Environment
Plant Collections of the Pharaohs: digging into the origins of botanical gardens
Book Review: Dumbarton Oaks anthology of Chinese garden literature
The Giant Pumpkin of Zaccheus Wells; A Legend that Lived in Memories for 50 years
China on a Plate: Willow Pattern Plates, World History and Gardening
Le Jardin d’Ermenonville: a philosophical garden in pre-Revolutionary France
Marriage Bells and Gorse Bouquets: Garden Flowers and Weddings in the Colonial South Island
The pre-1950s reporting of odd-shaped root vegetables in New Zealand
Planting a Colony: gardens, ecology and environmental change in the Otago Settlement, 1848-1861
The History of Garden Gnomes in New Zealand
Garden Star: Supporting Urban Native Biodiversity
Masonic Symbolism in the Picturesque Garden, Hamilton Gardens
Parapara, the maligned Bird Catcher Tree in New Zealand gardens
Hamilton Gardens future Medieval Garden
The usefulness of gardens as historical archives: Louis XIV and the gardens of Versailles
An early ‘Shakespeare Garden’ at Dunedin Botanic Garden
The new Baroque Garden at Hamilton Gardens
A Buxton Garden in Wadestown, Wellington
How has Covid-19 affected New Zealand’s gardening practices?
The Mansfield Garden, at Hamilton Gardens
Hobbiton: New Zealand’s Most Popular Garden?
Health and Wellbeing in Parks and Nature in 1800s Aotearoa New Zealand
Te Maimai: The creation of a New Zealand native garden from barren sand dunes
Gardening in the Anthropocene: A Q&A with MScSoc student Zoë Heine
Following the Flowers – call for Māori participants for oral histories
A Garden on a Plate: Willow Pattern Design and World History [Podcast]
How common are ‘exotic’ invertebrates in public and botanical garden ponds?
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