Orange Cauliflower Salad

Recipes

[one_third] Ingredients 1/2 Cauliflower broken into florets 1 Lemon (juiced) 1 Orange (peeled and broken into segments) 1 Small Red Onion (sliced into rings) 2 Sticks Celery (chopped) 1 Eating Apple (grated) [/one_third] [one_third_last] Method Bring cauliflower florets to the boil and drain. Once cool mix with orange segments. Add celery, apple and onion rings … Read More

Blackberry Nip – June Plant of the Month

Plant of the Month

Blackberry Nip has deep unfading purple blooms of a medium size on long stems and a powerful old fashioned fragrance. Now available as a climbing rose it is back at Oderings with better numbers available. Pre order at any Oderings store or online at www.oderings.co.nz Don’t forget Oderings deliver to your door!

View from the Deck – June 2014

View from the Deck – June 2014

View from the Deck

View from the Deck Alan Jolliffe Over the weekend we were able to have lunch on the deck and I reflected on the talk given by Prof  Dave Kelly at the CHS last week. In a nutshell he told us that birds are really important in spreading native plant seeds and shifting pollen from one … Read More

June 2014 Quiz Time Q & A

June 2014 Quiz Time Q & A

Quiz Time

What is the National Flower/Plant of these countries? France Holland                 Ireland                 Japan                    Switzerland                     

Interactive Horticulture Workshops – Media Release

Interactive Horticulture Workshops – Media Release

Media Releases

MEDIA RELEASE From:Canterbury Horticultural Society Date:27 May 2014 Interactive Horticulture Workshops Get pruning, planting and composting in this series of practically-oriented workshops led by well-respected and vastly experienced horticultural practitioners – Terry Windle, Alan Jolliffe, Dave Adams and Michael Coulter. To complement its current Winter Speaker Series the Canterbury Horticultural Society (CHS) has initiated a … Read More

Providing Community Leadership

From the Board, News & Events

“Demonstration gardens” is one of four key CHS strategies. It will require committed and ongoing leadership from the Society and its members. Of necessity it will create an interface with community groups and local authorities and it potentially could become a rich source of new members. The strategy has parallels with the “Britain in Bloom” … Read More

Mid Winter Luncheon 2014

Archive

Delicious Food & Great Company with Vi Cottrell QSM, Founder of Trade Aid.
12 noon, Saturday 28th June 2014

Tickets $30 per person CLICK HERE to read more…

Norfolk Island

Archive, Recent Tours & Photos

2-9 November 2014
8 Day Tour

A unique destination and a land of true unspoiled beauty, an island rich in history and filled with scenery that is breathtakingly beautiful, welcome to Norfolk Island.

From the President – June 2014

From the Board

How lucky our members are with the number and quality of events our volunteers are giving their time and energy to organize. In the last month we have had the first of our new Speaker Series with Professor Dave Kelly giving a  fascinating power point presentation on how our native birds and native plants rely … Read More