August 2012

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Blueberries are one of the easiest berries to grow, and there’s a variety to suit every Kiwi garden. Put

this crop to good use with recipes from Alison Worth

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You shall eat the fruit of the labour of your hands; you shall be happy, and it shall be well with you. Psalms 128:2

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BLUEBERRY CRUMBLESave this recipe to your file of

favourites – it’s guaranteed to be a hit.

Use fresh or frozen fruit. Serves 6

Ingredients for the pastry: 1 cup

flour 85g cold butter, cut into chunks

cup almond flour 1 tablespoon

sugar 1 to 2 tablespoons cold milk

For the filling: 3 cups fresh or frozen

blueberries ½ cup sugar a pinch

of ground nutmeg 2 tablespoons

cornflour ½ cup water

1 tablespoon butter

For the topping: ½ cup flour

50g butter ¼ cup brown sugar

½ cup porridge oats

Start by making the pastry. It’s quite

short so make sure you give it a good

rest to prevent it shrinking. Cut butter

into flour then stir in almond flour,

sugar and milk. Form into a ball then

roll to fit a 28cm tart tin. Refrigerate for

half an hour. Preheat oven to 180ºC.

To make the filling, put blueberries in

a pot with sugar and nutmeg. Mix

cornflour with water and add to

blueberry mixture. Cook until the

mixture thickens, add butter then pour

into tin. For the topping, blitz flour,

butter and sugar together in a food

processor or cut in together until it

resembles crumbs then stir through

oats. Sprinkle this over the blueberries

and bake until the pastry and crumble

topping is golden (about 25 minutes).

Cool to room temperature and serve

with whipped cream or yoghurt.

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What began as a dilapidated slice of Waikato swamp has grown into a graceful garden that rivals the best in the land

STORY: DEBBIE HARRISON PHOTOS: SAM SEATH

Scavenged sheep troughs brightened up with begonias make a striking water feature among the tall topiary shapes and terracotta pots. Every now and then owners Lloyd Houghton and Harry Janssen toss in lime green duckweed (Lemna minor) to keep the troughs clean.

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Flowers for scent

“Spring is nature’s way of saying ‘Let’s party!’.” American actor and comedian Robin Williams

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Spring is, perhaps, the best season to be a gardener. Every winter, the thought of it is a comfort, and every year its arrival proves an unexpected delight. I defy anyone not to have their spirits lifted by stepping into the garden in September and catching the scent of Lily of the Valley or a waft of fragrant stock.

2MICHELIA YUNNANENSIS

This is a handsome shrub year round with its dark green, shiny foliage and compact habit of growth. But in spring it’s staggeringly beautiful, its snow-white flowers smothering the bush, looking like a small, beautifully formed magnolia. Not only does it look great, it also has a powerful and pervasive fragrance. Plant it near white winter daphne for ongoing scent from winter to spring. Michelia yunnanensisresponds well to clipping and makes arguably the best of all fragrant flowering hedges. Or keep it as a compact shrub with regular pruning. You’ll need good soil and sun for most of the day. Cold hardy and disease resistant.

4VIBURNUM BURKWOODIIThis shrub produces pretty, cream-

coloured, round flower heads on the tips of slender branches over many weeks in spring. It’s one of those shrubs you can’t miss – even if you’re looking the other way it beckons with such a beguiling sweet scent that it’s hard to stop inhaling. The flowers are a joy for picking and bringing indoors for the vase too. This cold hardy, deciduous shrub is easy to grow, and enjoys being in full sun and good soil. If it becomes too large for its allotted space it can easily be given a light trim to keep it within bounds. Viburnum burkwoodiiis a must-have for a shrub border where fragrance predominates – plant with Michelia yunnanensis and Boronia megastigma for a touch of euphoria.

1LILY OF THE VALLEYConvallaria majalis was a popular

plant in English gardens 400 years ago. Loved then as now for its dainty little flowers – like little bells with upturned edges – it was also an ingredient of love potions. Later it became the flower of choice for many a couple courting in springtime, a little spray of the scented flowers being irresistibly beautiful. Lily of the valley is a native of the UK. A lover of shady, cool places, it needs a rich soil with lots of organic matter, so dig in lots of compost before planting. Try it on the shady side of rhododendrons or let it snuggle up to a mossy, rotting stump. It’s delightful with primroses and violets, and other little treasures of the springtime garden.

3DIANTHUS ‘MRS SINKINS’

This variety has long been famous for the powerful, clove-scented, lace-white flowers that cover the low-growing, grey-foliage plant in spring. It loves a sunny spot and well-drained soil (add a bit of lime). Dianthus ‘Mrs Sinkins’ thrives on the edge of gravel or cobblestone paths where passers-by are likely to be stopped in their tracks by the perfume. This remarkable little plant has enjoyed fame for over a century, ever since it was shown at a Royal Horticultural Society show in 1880. Unlike many favourite fragrant flowers, it doesn’t have a very romantic story attached to its beginnings. ‘Mrs Sinkins’ was raised by the master of a workhouse for the poor in the English town of Slough, and named for his wife.

Fragrant flowers are one of the garden’s greatest joys. Here are Julian Matthews’

favourite scented spring blooms

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New Zealand Gardener is the premium publication that Kiwi gardeners turn to each month for information, inspiration and a dash of indulgence. The magazine delivers a down-to-earth blend of expert horticultural advice, decadent harvest recipes, creative design ideas, practical know-how, planting hints and sustainability suggestions for stylish backyards from Northland to Southland.

New Zealand Gardener appeals to gardeners of all ages and levels of expertise, from urban courtyard owners looking for new ideas for pots and patios, to rural gardeners embarking on large-scale landscaping projects.

Edited by high profile journalist and gardener Jo McCarroll, New Zealand Gardener’s team of expert writers includes award-winning Chelsea Flower Show designer Xanthe White, Ruud “the Bugman” Kleinpaste and the magazine’s editor at large, gardening personality Lynda Hallinan. Lynda’s inner-city self-sufficiency campaign spearheaded a significant resurgence in vegetable gardening in New Zealand.

New Zealand Gardener reaches hundreds of thousands of keen Kiwi gardeners, through not only the magazine but its weekly online newsletter and the television show Get Growing with New Zealand Gardener, which Lynda presents.

New Zealand Gardener is not a publication designed primarily to grace coffee tables: it is a trusted companion for passionate gardeners who aren’t afraid to get their hands dirty. It is written by gardeners, for gardeners, and this sense of community spirit is reflected in the magazine’s impressive and loyal subscriber base: well over half of sales are to subscribers, compared to the NZ average of 13%.

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Alison Worth has simple seasonal recipes plus tips to ensure your best crop at home

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SPICED BOTTLED PEARSGood pear varieties for bottling are

‘William Bon Chretien’, ‘Packham’ and

‘Winter Nelis’. You can add spices such

as cardamom and star anise to this syrup

for more flavour, and substitute the

lemon peel with orange or lime peel

if you prefer. Makes about 1 litre

Ingredients 6 pears 1½ cups sugar

2 cinnamon sticks 1 vanilla pod

2 pieces lemon peel 5 whole cloves

Peel, core and halve pears. Cover with

water and add remaining ingredients. Bring

to the boil, then turn down the heat and

simmer for 20 minutes. Heat jars in the oven

at 100ºC for 20 minutes and boil the seals.

Carefully spoon hot pears and juice into hot

jars and seal immediately.

This pear tart improves with storage – if you can resist eating it all at once.

PEAR & ALMOND TARTThe flavour and texture of our tart is

even better when it’s stored for a couple

of days. This recipe also works well with

plums, apricots, peaches, blueberries

and raspberries. Serves 6

Ingredients 1 sheet shortcrust pastry

100g butter 60g caster sugar 2 eggs

80g ground almonds zest of one lemon

25g flour 2 bottled pears, quartered

Preheat oven to 180ºC. Line a tart tin

with pastry and blind bake until pale

golden and crisp. Beat butter and sugar

together until creamy and pale, add eggs

one by one, then fold in ground almonds,

lemon zest and flour. Spread into the

tart base, then lie pears on top. Bake

for about 30 minutes until an inserted

skewer comes out clean. Allow to cool

completely before serving or transferring

to an airtight container.

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2 Hugo O'Connor (3)Hugo was visiting his grandparents Cathy

and Ray Signal in Wanganui from his home in

Darwin, when he managed to “grow” this –

er, what is this? He’d never seen a capsicum

before, says Cathy, and was very confused

by this one. Luckily he still managed to eat it.

3 Taran Hawkins (13 months)Taran’s helping his dad, Mike Hawkins, rake

the leaves up from under the copper beech

although since he’s moving one leaf at a time

the assistance he offers is debatable. But

Mike still appreciates his son’s efforts:

“Taran’s other garden interests include

tasting dirt and supervising chickens.”

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1 Jess Day (10 months)In parents’ Kylie and Tim Day’s Rotorua garden, baby Jess has already

found her role in life: chief cherry tomato taster. Her technique is fi rst

to squeeze and then to bite (and then possibly to see if tomatoes

could work as a skin cream). She loves to help, Kylie says, “the only

problem is she likes to squeeze and taste test every single one”.

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4 Caitlin Bird (2)Caitlin is a keen gardener, says mum Linda

Taylor-Bird, but the Whitianga toddler is a little

colour challenged. “She is still to fi gure out

that when it’s green, it’s not always ready to

eat – particularly tomatoes. I have only

managed to get two red chillies, the others

she picked for me when they were still green.”

5 Lily & Ruby PaytonLily (4) and Ruby (7 months) loved the yellow

courgette fl owers in their Darfi eld, Canterbury

plot, but Lily’s favourite job is fi nding carrots

which are “hiding”. “Each evening Lily pops

out to the garden to choose a selection of

veges for tea,” says the girls’ mother Katy.

6 Hunter (6) & Finn (4) YarrallJunior gardeners Hunter (left) and Finn

last year harvested, dried and saved seed

from ‘Crown’ pumpkins (admittedly, they

had a little help from their mum, Lauren

Yarrall). But their work’s paid off this year,

since they’ve already harvested 150

pumpkins from their vege garden in

Otane, Central Hawke’s Bay. Not a bad

crop, especially since Lauren says the

boys have to work with heavy clay soil.

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to include their ages and your postal address.

And make sure your kids (or grandkids) are looking

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“I get so much from NZ Gardener. I read old issues again and again while I wait for the new one!”*

Revamped and relaunched in 2006, New Zealand Gardener was named Supreme Winner – Magazine of the Year at the 2007 Magazine Publishers Awards. Lynda was named Supreme Winner – Editor of the Year. In 2008, New Zealand Gardener won Magazine of the Year in the Special Interest category. Lynda also won Editor of the Year in the Special Interest category.

Highlights:NZ Gardener was Highly Commended – Magazine of the Year at the 2010 Magazine Publishers Association awards.NZ Gardener was named Supreme Winner – Magazine of the Year at the 2009 Magazine Publishers Association awards.The magazine’s free weekly Get Growing interactive e-newsletter, encouraging Kiwis to grow their own food, has signed up over 25,000 subscribers and continues to grow.To celebrate grassroots gardening, NZ Gardener runs a nationwide NZ Gardener of the Year competition each year that attracts significant local, regional and national media coverage.

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Pick of the bunch1 Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ is one of the

best dark-coloured clematis. Prune to the ground.

2 Clematis x durandii. One of the bluest clematis.

It has an unusual herbaceous habit and needs staking.

3 Clematis ‘Medley’ has semi-double flowers in

shades of cream, rose and pistachio.

4 Clematis viticella ‘Madame Julia Correvon’.A floriferous and easy to grow red clematis.

5 Clematis viticella ‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’. Masses of flowers in muted tones, easy to prune.

6 Clematis ‘Countess of Lovelace’. A frilly, large-

flowered hybrid, it flushes twice in the season.

7 Clematis viticella ‘Alba Luxurians’. A floriferous

performer with green touches to its white flowers.

8 Clematis ‘Multi Blue’. Good in borders and pots.

9 Clematis ‘Pagoda’. This hybrid is smothered with

flowers from midsummer to the first frosts.

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Add liveliness and colour to your patch with the acrobatic and aristocratic clematis

Plants with personality are always welcome in the garden and clematis certainly has pizzazz.

You perhaps already grow spring-flowering Clematis montana with its vanilla scent and over-enthusiastic embrace as it swallows up walls, sheds and fences. But there’s an array of other, completely different species of clematis.

Viticella hybrids are especially appealing. Though they lack scent they have small, elegant flowers that perform from early summer till the first frosts. Pruning is as easy as razing them to the ground with a pair of sharp shears in the dormant months, meaning they can tango with spring-flowering shrubs and trees – extending the interest – before you clear them away for winter and leave their host free to recover. In dark corners you might plant Clematis viticella ‘Alba Luxurians’ with its froth of green-lipped flowers.

Many late-flowering clematis are surprisingly shade tolerant though most will produce much more dramatic sheets of colour when placed in the sun. Roses make the perfect playground for many because the vines flower just as the first flush of roses is fading. I use the dusky-purple coloured Clematis viticella‘Purpurea Plena Elegans’ to ramble up a pale yellow banksia rose, and my dark, brooding Clematis viticella ‘Etoile Violette’ is currently hoisting itself up and over an old and rather dull forsythia, ready to tart it up over summer.

Large-flowered clematis hybrids are more attention-grabbing still, with dinner-plates of splayed tepals (not true petals). Go for contrasting colours in the

middle of the flowers or attractive seedheads, such as the late yellow-flowered oriental hybrids or the earlier Clematis ‘The President’. This opens out a vivid electric blue and works brilliantly intertwined with wisteria.

Big-flowered hybrids tend to flower in two bursts – in late spring and again in late summer. They like a light pruning: shear them back to a permanent framework of stems. Clematis wilt – a fungus-caused collapse of new stems – can be a problem, with showier types in particular. Plant them deeply, cut away the affected growth and wait – often they’ll recover to entertain again.

Each year, even more frilled and sculpted forms become available; the double sorts are often intriguing with their fancy spring performance, followed by an encore of single blooms later in the year. ‘Multi Blue’ is a good recent hybrid that will flower in sun or shade. Its generous plates of colour look right at home nestled amid the frothy white lacecaps of viburnums, but it performs equally well clambering up pea-sticks in a pot.

Nearly all clematis like a good, deep root-run, preferably in the shade, with plenty of organic matter in the soil and some supplementary water in dry months. But they’re surprisingly tough and drought tolerant once established.

A few, such as winter-flowering Clematis cirrhosa, are evergreen while others provide scent, such as the popular Clematis armandii. But the fun is really in those brightly painted faces, whether they’re scaling a wall or literally swinging from the rafters.

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*Source: NZ Gardener Reader Survey May 10

70% Female.

74% are home owners and New Zealand Gardener readers are 46% more likely to own their homes mortgage free than total population.

72% have been in their garden in the last month, 58% last week!

61% drink coffee, 61% drink tea once a day. Gardener readers are 49% more likely to drink special herbal teas daily than population.

NZ Gardener women believe it is important to take care of their skin due to spending a large amount of time outdoors – are 119% more likely* to use hand cream at least daily.

*More likely than the total population aged 10+Source: Nielsen CMI Qtr3 2011 - Qtr2 2012

NZ Gardener Reader Survey May 2007/2010

New Zealand Gardener readers are passionate, hands-on gardeners who care about their homes and their health. They actively seek environmentally friendly alternatives and are prepared to pay more for organic options. They endeavour to buy New Zealand-made products and they believe it’s important to know where their food comes from. They regularly shop at farmers’ markets and attend home and garden shows.

Most readers are concerned about their impact on the environment and they share a growing interest in alternative power generation, natural heating and cooling solutions and green transport solutions.

New Zealand Gardener readers are resourceful. They grow their own food because they believe it is better for them – and for their budgets. Enthusiastic wine drinkers and keen entertainers, they love to share their gardens and their harvests with friends and family. This is reflected in their planting choices – 86% grow their own herbs, 83% grow vegetables and 75% grow fresh fruit.

New Zealand Gardener readers’ homes are their havens. They continually invest in renovations, improvements and alterations – readers were 33% more likely* to carry out decking, paving or landscaping in the last 12 months than the total population.

Our readers are classified as heavy magazine readers (76%) and many are internet-savvy consumers, as shown by the increased NZ Gardener website traffic and popularity of Lynda’s email newsletters.

61% believe the garden is as important as other rooms in the house, that’s 41% more likely than the total population

Readership 317,000Circulation 44,912Frequency Monthly

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READER DYNAMICSNZ Gardener readers spend on average 55 minutes reading their copy; this almost doubles to 92 minutes for buyers/subscribers.

NZ Gardener has a very loyal base of readers with the average length of reading being 9 years.

indefinitely and that rises to 82% of our buyers/subscribers.

they read their beloved magazine everything cover to cover, this jumps to 69% of our buyers/subscribers report.

CONSUMER ACTION NZ Gardener readers have

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File FormatThe only accepted file format for print advertising material is high resolution PDF. The PDF should be distilled to Acrobat 4 (pdf1.3) compatibility. All fonts must be embedded or, if that option is unavailable, fonts must be converted to paths/outlines. Full technical information on PDF creation and specifications can be found at www.3DAP.com.au

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ImagesFour-colour images must be CMYK; minimum resolution 300dpi; maximum total ink of 300% is recommended. Lineart must be a minimum of 1200dpi. Images must not contain extra channels: transfer curves; OPI information or be compressed. No spot colours are to be used.

DocumentPlease centre the advertisement on the page with crop marks. If bleed, allow 5mm bleed all round. All dimensions must comply with the published requirements of the publication. These are available either online at PRRADS, Quickcut or from Fairfax Magazines. PDFs must be generated to the correct size. Do not ‘crop’ in Acrobat to achieve the correct page size. Files must be single page composite. Do not include colour bars or any other element that will not appear on the final product.

ProofsAn approved 3DAP contract proof must be supplied with all advertising material. A list of approved contract proofing output devices is available at www.3DAP.com.au. If an approved 3DAP contract proof is not supplied, colour fidelity is not guaranteed. A laser proof is not a contract proof.

Delivery & Contact DetailsAll material should be sent to Advertising Coordinators at Fairfax Magazines. Please refer to each title for details. All material should be received before the material deadline.

GENERIC SPECIFICATIONS

1. In accepting an advertisement (including a notice) for publication, and in publishing it we are doing so in consideration of and relying on the advertiser’s express warranty, the truth of which is essential:

a. That the advertisement does not contain anything: that is misleading or deceptive or likely to mislead or deceive or which breaches the Fair Trading Act 1986; that is defamatory or indecent or which otherwise offends against generally accepted community standards; that infringes a copyright or trademark or otherwise infringes any intellectual or industrial property rights; that breaches any provision of any statute, regulation, by-law or any other rule or law, and

b. That the advertisement complies in every way with the Advertising Codes of Practice issued by the Advertising Standards Authority inc. (“ASA”) and with every other code or industry relating to advertising in New Zealand, and

c. Publication of the advertisement will not give rise to any liability on our part or in a claim being made against us

2. The advertiser agrees to indemnify us against our losses or costs arising directly or indirectly from any breach of those warranties by the advertisers and from any costs incurred in our making corrections or amendments in accordance with the terms that follow.

3. By supplying or placing an advertisement for publication the advertiser grants us a perpetual, royalty free license to reproduce the advertisement in any print or electronic advertisement media we offer advertisers now or in the future.

4. Where the advertiser utilises any aspect of our creative services in the design or production of an advertisement (including photographic or design work) the advertiser acknowledges that we own the copyright in such work and that such work is not work for which a commissioning payment has been made or agreed.

5. We may refuse to publish, or withdraw an advertisement from publication, without having to give a reason.

6. We must publish the advertisement on the next available magazine issue if there is an error or delay in publication of the advertising as booked.

7. We may correct or amend advertising to conform to style or for other genuine reasons as long as we do so using reasonable care.

8. We may take orders for advertising in specific spaces (space orders). The space may be used only by the advertiser for advertising of the advertiser’s usual business and may not be transferred by the advertiser to another person or entity.

9. The guarantees contained in the consumer Guarantees Act 1993 are excluded where the advertiser acquires, or holds himself out as acquiring, goods or services for the purpose of a business.

10. The advertiser must tell us as soon as possible if there is an error or omission in any advertisement the advertiser has placed. We will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss (which includes loss of revenue or profit) from an error or omission or failure to publish and if we are found to have any liability for any circumstance that liability is limited to the cost of the space of the advertisement.

11. To cancel an advertisement a cancellation number must be obtained from us.

12. The charge for an advertisement will be in accordance with the published ratecard applying at the time for the publication, unless both parties agree otherwise in writing. Rate card adjustments will apply to space orders with effect from advertising appearing 28 days after the rate adjustment is published on our rate card. Rates for space orders apply for the whole space and are not reduced if the whole space is not used.

13. Advertising placed by advertisers who are not New Zealand residents will be zero-rated for GST purposes. GST will be applied at the standard rate to advertising placed by non-resident agents for New Zealand resident principals.

14. If payment for advertising is not made by the due date (which is the 20th of the month following invoice, unless we specify in writing otherwise) the advertiser will be liable at market rates and all costs of recovery, commissions and collection fees.

15. After cancellation deadline a 100% media placement cancellation fee applies.

16. Fairfax NZ Limited reserves the right to alter casual rates at any time. Forward booking contracts are given rate protection for the period covered by the bookings.

17. Accredited Advertising Agencies: Bookings made through accredited advertising agencies will be subject to commission at a rate of 10% payable to the agency.

18. Rates are exclusive of GST and are quoted in $NZD.

19. VID and multi-buy discounts are available. Please contact your Fairfax NZ Limited Representative for details.

20. Guaranteed position on the outside back cover (OBC), inside front cover (IFC) is subject to availability at the time of booking and Fairfax NZ Limited reserves the right to move these bookings if a subsequent OBC or IFC gatefold, onsert or false cover is booked. Fairfax NZ Limited will work proactively with the advertiser and agency to secure alternative preferential advertisement positioning.

21. The positioning or placing of any material within the particular website is at our discretion except where specifically agreed in writing.

22. Campaign advertising impressions will be counted and recognised by Fairfax Media Business Group’s ad-serving engine. A third party ad serving engine may also be used but its impression count won’t be recognised unless we agree otherwise in writing.

23. We will not be liable for any indirect or consequential loss (which includes loss of revenue or profit) from an error or omission in material published, or for failure to publish, whatever the reason for the error. If we are found to have any direct liability to our customer in any circumstance that liability is limited to the cost of the advertising space for the relevant material in the website.

24. Fairfax Digital has the right at any time to provide Nielsen Online (NO) with advertising data (including but not limited to the Client’s advertising rate card spend on an aggregated basis only) for publication by NO as part of Fairfax Digital’s membership of the Interactive Advertising Bureau New Zealand. In these conditions “we” are Fairfax New Zealand Limited and subsidiary companies, and the employees and agents of those companies, and “Customer” is the person or company placing material for publication on our websites.

TERMS & CONDITIONS