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New Zealand Gardener

‘Home & Dry’, December 2025
‘Floral Heritage’, September 2025
‘Seaside Splendour’, August 2025′
‘Just Cause’, July 2025
‘Sew Pretty’, June 2025
‘Show Garden’, May 2025
‘Garden Culture: Pataka’s Japanese Garden’, April 2025
‘Rare Yield’, March 2025
‘Floral Focus’, February 2025
‘Downsized Delights’, December 2024
‘For Love of Iris: Jean Stevens’ Irises at the Bason Botanic Garden’, November 2024
‘Growing Legacy’, October 2024
‘The Ties that Bind: the Ngita Woodhouse Garden Club’, July 2024
‘Woven in time’, June 2024
‘Battle for the berm’, May 2024
‘Trees Company: Quaker Mason’s trees’, April 2024
‘Pumpkin Trials’, March 2024
‘Flowers by the Sea’, March 2024
‘Nearest & Dearest’, February 2024
‘Game, set & bloom’, October 2023
‘War and Peace: the Featherston Peace Garden’, September 2023
‘Show stopper: 120th anniversary of the Hutt Valley Horticultural Society’, August 2023
‘Plot to table’, July 2023
‘Even better’, June 2023
‘On the hunt’, April 2023
‘Trial by flower’, February 2023
‘In remembrance: Pahautanui Burial Ground roses’, January 2023
‘Wellington strong’, November 2022
‘Potted dahlias’, October 2022
‘Perennial charm’, October 2022
‘Feathers & Flora: The garden and nursery at the Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust’, July 2022
‘The world in one garden: Carolyn Campbell’s Tawa Garden’, June 2022
‘Plant spotting: rediscovering the swamp maire in Porirua’, June 2022
‘Garden of dreams: Miramar Prison Community Garden”, May 2022
‘Communal harvest: the olive trees of Mount Victoria”, April 2022
‘Friends and lovers: Friends of the Wellington Botanic Garden’, March 2022
‘Creative Outlet: The gardeners of Rita Angus Cottage’, February 2022
‘Native Plant Haven: Otari-Wilton’s Bush’, January 2022
‘Vital Sustenance: The garden at the Bus Stop Cafe, Te Horo’, December 2021
‘Chilling with the Daffadude’, November 2021
‘If This Tree Could Talk: Patrick Mungavin’s Buxton Garden’, October 2021
‘Floral Legacy’, August 2021
‘Blowing in the Wind: A Wellington Nursery and Garden’, July 2021

Australian Garden History Journal

‘Molly’s Garden, 37/2, October 2025
‘Effie Douglas’, 36/2, July 2024
Book Review: ‘Plants of the Q’ran’, 36/2, July 2024
‘Nola Luxford, angel of the Anzacs, and her garden in the sky’, 35/4, April 2024
Book Review: A botanical wonderland in Hamilton, New Zealand, August 2023
‘Miramar Prison Garden’s hippopotamus’, 35/1, July 2023
Book Review: New Zealand’s Botanical heroes revealed in a history of Ōtari–Wilton’s Bush, November 2022
Book Review: Miss Willmott’s Ghosts: The extraordinary life and gardens of a forgotten genius, October 2022
‘Quaker Mason and the Weeping Pagoda Plate’, July 2022
‘Mothers and babies, plants and seeds: Truby King’s Wellington garden’, 32/3, January 2021
‘Wetherstons’ gold’, 31/4, April 2020; August 2020

The Gardener’s Journal

‘The Golden Age of Wellington’s Horticultural Societies’ 3/3, November 2022
‘Alice’s Garden: Buxton’s garden at Chesterhope’, 2/3, June 2022
Book Review: ‘The Hidden Horticulturists: The untold story of the men who shaped Britain’s gardens’, 2/3, June 2022
Book Review: ‘The Plant Hunter’s Atlas’ by Ambra Edwards, 1/3, February 2022
‘The Flower Growers of Ōtaki”, 1/3, February 2022
‘Quaker Mason and the Weeping Pagoda Plate’, 3/2, October 2021
‘Caroline Lush: Colonial Artist and Fern Collector”‘ 2/2, June 2021
‘The Making of Dunedin’s Winter Garden’ 1/2, February 2021

Journal of New Zealand Studies

‘The Fostering of ‘All-Round Gardens’: Suburban Horticultural Societies in Wellington, 1910-40′, 34 (2020)

Historic Gardens Review

‘A Diva’s Delight: Dame Nellie Melba’s Garden’, 44, September 2022
‘Celebrating the ‘Buxton Garden’, 43, December 2021
‘Devon Down Under: Edna Walling’s Bickleigh Vale’, 42, April 2021
‘Tall timber: the arboretums of Poverty Bay’, 41, September 2020

The New Zealand Listener

‘Manhattan Transfer’, 27 April 2024
‘Coming up Roses: Portland, the City of Roses’, 14 January 2023
‘Gilding the Lilies: New York’s Gilded Age Gardens’, 27 June 2022

Script & Print

‘Nursery Catalogues as Indicators of Social History: A Case Study’, 4/44, 2020
‘Music Sold and Music Published: An Overview of Publishing by Music Sellers in New Zealand 1830-1940’, 4/43, 2019

The Mediterranean Garden

‘Mediterranean Plants in a New Zealand Garden’, July 2025
‘Melba’s Garden’, No 112, April 2023

Heritage Roses New Zealand Journal

‘Roses in Alfred Buxton’s Catalogues’ 47/2, February 2022
‘Alfred Buxton’s rose gardens’, 47/4, August 2022
‘Roses at the White House’, 46/3, May 2021
‘Olveston: the rose garden that was’, 45/3, May 2020
‘Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden’, February 2020

New Zealand House & Garden

‘Bowled Over’, December 2023

New Zealand Journal of History

‘”Music Sold, Bought and Played”: The Importance of Women to Music-Selling in New Zealand, 1870-1930’, 55/1, 2021

New Zealand Memories

‘Gardens of Memories’, April/May 2025
‘Minnie’s Garden’, October/November 2022
‘Strike up the Band – Begg’s Musical Army’, October/November 2014

Ōtaki Historical Journal

‘Flowers and Gardens: Alfred Buxton in Ōtaki’, Volume 46: 2025

New York History

‘Community NY: The Anzac Garden’, Winter 2024-2025

Other

Walter Sinton. Audioculture, New Zealand On Air, January 2020
‘Cuttings from the Onslow Garden’, Onslow Historian, 49 (1-4), 2019
Searches for Tradition: Essays on New Zealand Music, Past & Present, edited by Michael Brown & Samantha Owens, Crescendo, 101, February/March 2018
A Passionate Affair: Llewellyn Owen & Music, by Margaret Bean, Crescendo, 98, February/March 2016
‘Unbinding New Zealand’s musical past’, Crescendo, 100/1, February/March 2017
Begg’s: the Musical and Electrical Centre. Audioculture, New Zealand On Air, January 2016
‘Begg’s War’, Crescendo, 95, August/September 2014