- HOW TO PRUNE FRUIT TREES -

Do your fruit trees just look at you blankly year after year, not understanding they are supposed to supply bucketful’s of perfect fruit with no effort on your part whatsoever?

Do they get attacked mercilessly by mysterious creatures and weird illnesses? Come and learn everything you need to know about ensuring your trees behave correctly and stay happy.

When: Winter Sundays with a rain save day of August 6th

July 2nd, 16th, 30th

Time: 1.00-4.30pm with a cuppa and home baking in between

Where: This will change with each workshop as we can’t keep pruning the same trees!  Participants will be notified on booking where each workshop will be.  Most will be in Wainui, Waitoki, Upper Waiwera Valley and Puhoi initially.

Cost: $45.00 Deposit: $20.00 due within 7 days of booking date.

Tutor: Margaret Tremaine & Robyn Dyer

What you need to bring:

  • Gumboots
  • Secateurs (ideal tools will be onsite for demonstration).

Please register for this workshop by using the form below

Margaret Tremaine - Gardening Guru

Home: Upper Waiwera Valley with her family for the last 8 years. Professional and Life Qualifications: 29 years of designing, planting and maintaining residential, commercial and rural gardens. This includes the redevelopment and rescue of just about all styles and forms of gardens possible. Studied Landscape Design and Amenity Horticulture (Massey University, Palmerston North), at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, England and most recently Permaculture in Matakana. Hobbies: Food, gardens, healthy environments and sustainability. I tend to eat, breath and talk gardening with anyone willing to listen, so I am so looking forward to meeting you all and sharing my skills and knowledge. Best country ever visited: New Zealand Fave food: Tabouli and Falafel Most cherished childhood memory: Stewart Island in the summer rain. Next/Top of your bucket list: Paris Your hero: My husband As I get older: I continue to learn that I know very little If I could have changed one thing while I was at school: I would have attended class more often Other than my children, the thing I love so much that all else fades into insignificance: Life

Robyn Dyer

Family: 49 years, Married with three teenage children Professional and Life Qualifications: I didn't set out for a career in the horticultural industry and yet my love for plants has seen me mostly follow that path.  I have worked in retail, where I gained an enormous amount of knowledge.  I have also worked for a growing nursery and a hire plant company. Finally I set up and ran my own landscaping and indoor plant company for eleven years, until retiring from paid work eight years ago.  Most of my time is currently taken up with my own garden, study and volunteer work. Most of my time is currently taken up with my own garden, study and volunteer work. Hobbies: My favourite hobbies are gardening and tramping. Currently Reading: I read non-fiction unless the book has a botanical or horticultural theme.  I have just finished reading "The signature of all things" by Elizabeth Gilbert, which I absolutely loved. What are you most passionate about?: I am absolutely passionate about our environment and living sustainably and am thrilled to be living on a lifestyle block where I can put into practice some of my vision. Fave food: My favourite meal is anything that I have grown and picked myself. If I could have changed one thing while I was at school: If I had my time over again I would have studied botany upon leaving school, but am making up for it now by slowly working towards a Bachelor of Applied Science majoring in the Environment. Other than my children, the thing I love so much that all else fades into insignificance: ther than my children and husband, I love the most my beautiful friends, who support and look out for me.