Tom and Lesley Wilson’s house and garden is filled with eclectic design that is truly beautiful to behold, expressing confident personality, an eye for design, and a sense of magic.
Sweet Marise
Entirely self-taught, Marise Rozing is a self-effacing cake-maker, successful catering director, sensitive wedding photographer and mother of three, with menagerie of guinea pigs, chickens, fish, cats and a 20-year-old turtle. In her spare time, Marise has a fondness for trail-running up mountains. By Nicola Belsham. Photos by Sharisse Eberlein.
50 years of Aratoi in 5 objects
A history of a museum is visible through its collection, and these five works alone – among the 4,000 in the museum’s care – speak volumes.
Garden fresh in a pot
Steve and Louisa Portman share some of the secrets to happy, flourishing container plants.
Growing the good life
Take a bare plot of land on a hillside in Eketahuna, add plenty of horse manure to enrich the soil then wait for the worms to work their magic.
A gift from the garden
In late spring, many of us keep a keen eye out for the ‘peonies for sale’ flag to go up at a gate on Ponatahi Road. What some may not know is that they are the delightful legacy of a remarkable woman, Louise St John. Tor White, Louise’s daughter, talks to Katherine Robinson about Ponatahi Peonies.
From small seeds, big things grow
When an eight-year-old Heidi Holbrook scattered wildflower seeds in her family's Napier garden, she had no thought it would lead to a major growing project decades later in her adopted Wairarapa home.
Kokomai - a brilliant festival of the arts
Book your tickets now for the Kokomai Creative Festival, a biannual celebration of brilliant, edgy, local and global creativity from 10-19 October.