About Garden Bureau

Garden Bureau publishes zone-specific planting guides for New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

Most gardening advice online is generic — written for somewhere else, or written for nowhere in particular. We write for specific climate zones, with specific timing, specific cultivar recommendations, and specific supplier links.

We're NZ-first. Canterbury frost dates are different from Auckland's. What works in temperate coastal NZ doesn't work in the cool/mountain zones. We cover those differences because they're the difference between a harvest and a failure.

We're expanding into Australia and the UK — same approach, different zones.

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When we recommend a product or supplier, it's because it works — not because we get paid the most to recommend it. Any affiliate relationships are clearly disclosed.