r/nzgardening

I feel like it's dying but could be stress. Today is the first day it's rained in like 2 weeks and half the leaves have just gone. I can't see any evidence of beetle infestation or any small holes in the tree from borer.

Have these weird stalk thing growing at the bottom of one of my fruit trees. What is it and how do I make it die forever

Hello! I have started a new garden. I have been travelling around with these arches for a long time. They are from my Late mother’s beautiful garden in Auckland, she had them engineered because she was so inspired by Monet’s Gardens. I live in West Auckland out at Bethells Beach and I am looking for ideas on what to plant. She had a red climbing Rose on one which was prolific, and then wisteria on another set of arches. I would love to have something cottagey and abundant maybe two different plants that light up at different seasons?! Or, maybe two different kinds of robust Roses?! Any recommendations that are hardy and pretty and have maximum flowers would be so well received thank you in advance 😊

I've been having nonstop problems with these little white mites (or maybe fungus?) on all of my strawberry plants. They're very small so I can't exactly tell what they are, and google keeps telling me it's aphids but I'm about 99% certain they're not. I have a tray of plants inside, and another hanging basket outside, and they've not come into contact with one another at any point. How can I treat this? What could it be?

Purchased an apple tree at Bunnings on super special never checked the label just snapped it up . Never realized it produced

Massive apples. The name should have given it away ,Monty surprise.

This avo tree started from seed, was in a pot for about 2 years, and has been in the garden since 2019. There are at least five avocados on there!

I fully expect them to be bland af but it's a nice kind of Lotto like feeling in the meantime.

One plant is several years old, self seeded. The other I bought from Mitre 10 and planted 2 months ago. Both were green until a few weeks ago, now they’re growing some reddish-purple leaves.

I’m guessing maybe something in the soil? But I have changed nothing and one of the plants has been there for years. Thoughts?

Ps. The cat doesn’t mind, it all tastes the same to her.

When I dug out the last of my carrots recently I found this bluish-white mesh-like growth through much of the soil, some on the surface but mostly in the couple of inches just below. It didn't seem to penetrate the carrots and I could just let it dry and then brush it off.

I've not seen it before; what is it, is it a bad thing, is there anything I can do to stop it coming back?

Hi All, i have been maintaining this hedge. I am now looking at what tool can i purchase to trim it from the ground. I roughly worked it out to be just over 4m at present. So many options of long reach hedge trimmer but nothing that i can work out could maintain this height? Development at the back means 2-3 story so would like to keep it high for privacy and not to be overlooked. Churr

If anyone knows what hedge it is as well, would be helpful.

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The root has sub-roots, and the shoot is almost trying its hand at leaves. I've promoted the water jar to a larger water pyrex dish, with a loose plan to actually plant it into dirt this weekend.

I'm a little bit more reluctant to have a pot of dirt sitting on the plate rack over my stove than I am a dish of water, mainly from a potential bugs and mess perspective. But I'll still do it anyway. I just might have to workshop a cloche of some sort that isn't made of plastic in case it touches the chimney and melts. Might see if I can find a squat glass bowl to invert over the pot, so it keeps everything contained, glasshouse style.

I've also got a good number of Kesar seeds drying out on the windowsill from my mango adventure to Yogijis in Petone, as well as another Kent seed from the supermarket last week because it was $3 ea. The Kent mango was a far less satisfying mango to eat after the almost full dozen Kesar mangoes I've eaten in the last fortnight. There's still two Kesar left, I intend to demolish them for #girldinner tonight.

I did just try to cut open one of the Kesar seed husks, and it was a much harder task than the first Kent husk had been, so I'm thinking a bit of gentle hammering might be on the cards when I want to germinate them. I'll also need to work out scaling up the water jar system, because the stove plate rack isn't enormous.

My double-grafted pear tree seems like it might be loosing a battle with something fungal? Initially thought the spots were just a bit of bronze beetle damage through the summer (probably added to sadness).

I know it's deciduous, but might as well check what others think.

Don't want to waste em.