How to Keep Your Garden Healthy and Pest Free
with Delma & Jonathan Harrison the proud owners of Palmers Remuera
Palmers Remuera has retained all the qualities that go hand in hand with its status as one of the oldest established garden centres in New Zealand.
With winter now in the rear-view mirror, it’s time to get exploring our big, beautiful backyard again. And how to make the exploration even more magical? Take along your canine companions! Verve brings you some of the best options.
Growing up, Krystel English never imagined becoming a fashion designer, despite being seemingly born for the role. In the 1980s her parents, Gloria and Mel, ran Fidgit’s Fashion on Auckland’s Darby Street, a hip men’s and women’s boutique that carried its success into Australian department stores and even counted Stevie Nicks among its customers.
Choreographers from three continents share New Zealand stages this winter in Bold Moves - a magnificent mixed bill of daring works by the Royal New Zealand Ballet. Definitive danceworks from three different decades, each piece offers a rare glimpse into bold and boundary-defying choreographers who captured the zeitgeist through dance.
“It’s nice there being a certain element of intrigue about the Northern Club,” says the general manager, Nicki de Villiers, as we sit on creaking leather armchairs beside a most welcome open fire. Outside, it’s a clear, but crisp, morning.