Our garden blog

Looking for some outdoor activities you can do with the kids during lockdown? Here's some next-level ideas to keep them happy and active while we get through Level 4.

Whether you live in a terrace house, on a cross-lease section or in a flat, many of us now have compact outdoor spaces. Maximise enjoyment of your outdoor area with these project ideas for small spaces.

Last Tuesday night we held our annual staff awards. A great night with our fantastic team who have worked really hard, especially over the past year and a half. We would like to thank all of our wonderful Central Landscapes staff and congratulate this year’s winners, below: Staff Award Winner...

Plant potatoes to crop in time for Christmas dinner, and get the seed sowing underway (indoors). Do some herb garden maintenance, and sow mesclun for summer salad. 🐌🐌 Snails are wintering over, so go on the attack! 🐌🐌 Planning ahead Manage the colour of your hydrangea flowers, more pruning to do...

Build up the soil in raised beds, get a potato patch ready and prune the pip and stone fruit trees and berries. Rose pruning time, feed breeding birds, shop for specimen trees and make some free plants by dividing garden perennials. Winter saladsBrighten up your winter salads with baby beet, rainbow chard, spinach and kale...

Raised garden beds look great and they allow you to garden at a comfortable height. They have many other benefits, including better drainage for winter growing, thermal insulation to help plants grow and a tidier garden layout.

Some handy gardening tips for June from Central Landscape Supplies.

We're celebrating our great Living Earth story by offering you the chance to win a trailer-load of Garden Mix when you shop with us. Nine trailer-loads (one at each yard to be won). Fill out an entry form when purchasing products at any Central Landscapes yard and you're in to win!...

Our amazing Living Earth Garden Mix – 25 years of growing gardens while recycling over 2 million tonnes of organic waste Aucklanders will know our Living Earth Garden Mix as a top-performing growing mix, 100% weed-free and full of nutrients to get your garden growing. But it’s also important to...

It’s cooling down, time to deal to the growing snail population in the vegetable bed, plant a bay hedge, fork compost around and plant edible calendulas for winter colour.