In your GARDEN

SEASON SPECIALS Time to ease up on the big jobs and do a bit of planting and prep instead

Have a blazing start to winter.

HIP AS

The flowers have gone but the hips of the Mandarin or Moyes rose are something special.

GREAT BALLS OF FIRE Grow the Gladwin iris (I. foetidissima) for its showy, scarlet seed heads.

SO STRAPPING Brighten up a dull patch with red NZ flax, such as Phormium tenax ‘Anna Red’.

Jenny Dillon Garden Editor