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Wally Richards

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Wally Richards has been a gardening columnist for over 30 years. Check his websites - for gardening news and tips visit www.gardenews.co.nz. For mail order products visit www.0800466464.co.nz. Wally also has a gardening problem help line on 0800 466 464.

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Gardening with Wally Richards: New season

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Well here we are at the beginnings of August when a gardener's 'Winter Blues' ends and a new season of planting and growing begins. Next...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Pruning roses

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It is about that time of the year when gardeners oil up their secateurs, put on their gloves and go out to do battle...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Propagation of seeds

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Propagation from seed is not only very rewarding it is also the most cost effective way of obtaining a wide variety of plants. There are...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Winter Blues

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Winter is a slow time for many gardeners with only the most enthusiastic donning their woollies and gum boots to venture forth in all...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Definition of madness

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This week I received from the internet, on a social media platform, a picture of a man walking through a paddock planted up with...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Roses and winter clean up

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Well the new seasons roses are now in (or will be in the next few days) and there are lots of neat roses to...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Green crops and seed storage

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I am always pleased to have readers contact me and requesting an article on a topic that they would like to read about. It gives...

Gardening with Wally Richards: That problem to grow and plant garlic

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I remember times gone by when you could take a clove of garlic, push it into some fertile growing medium and about 6 months...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Leaves and robbers

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I was asked by a reader recently what is best way to use leaf fall from deciduous trees which is happening right now. In the...

Gardening with Wally Richards: Winter and frosts

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In New Zealand, the official winter months are June, July and August. As a Southern Hemisphere country, these months bring the coldest temperatures, shortest days,...

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