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Poet of Place

A conversation with acclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller.

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A Garden Made by Hands, Skunks and Fungi

Visit a strange and beautiful LA garden with us.

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Gardening as Freedom

A conversation with Dan Pearson

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The Poem that Saved a Forest

Yes, it’s true.

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Welcome to Wonderground

The Planthunter is now Wonderground.

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Recent Stories

Against Soil-Less Life

Agriculture, Art & Design, CultureHow industrial greenhouses are disconnecting us from Earth.

Gardening as Freedom: A Conversation with Dan Pearson

Conversations, GardensA conversation with landscape designer and writer Dan Pearson.

The Poem that Saved a Forest

CulturePoet Jacqueline Suskin on questions of time, transformation and activism.

Teresa Moller: Poet of Place

Art & Design, ConversationsAcclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller chats with Georgina Reid.

Tree Talk

CultureJeff Perry converses with trees.

Saving The Great Forest

Conversations, EcologyWorld-renowned forest ecologist David Lindenmayer chats with Georgina Reid.

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Gorgeous Gardens

Fiona Brockhoff: Why Garden?

GardensAcclaimed Australian landscape designer Fiona Brockhoff on why she gardens.

Gardening as Freedom: A Conversation with Dan Pearson

Conversations, GardensA conversation with landscape designer and writer Dan Pearson.

The Garden as Ecological Island

GardensCan a suburban garden become an ecological island? NZ artist Michael Shepherd finds out.

Transformative Landscapes: Landscapes of Cohabitation

Art & Design, Gardens'The idea of creation is beautiful, and the human species is capable of so much creation. But an existing climate and ecosystem, it’s not a blank page’ - Thomas Doxiadis

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Essays

The Garden as Ecological Island

'I wanted to create a garden that almost frightened people. In many gardens, the plant becomes an accessory and it’s only there to decorate a human’s life. When this garden was mine, I made people push up against plants, I made them struggle. I think those are good experiences.’

On Daring to Care

I’m rarely the recipient of negativity, of course. Everyone smiles when I mention I write about gardens, that I am a gardener. “How lovely,” they say, seeing me as a simple and wholesome woman, secateurs fused to my right hand and fingernails permanently encrusted with soil. “Salt of the earth!” they suggest enthusiastically. I smile outwardly, and inwardly too, telling myself they have no idea just how gritty this woman really is.

Wilderness and Garden-Making, Post-Internet

As garden-makers in a post-Internet world we must labour thoughtfully, we must respect wilderness, acknowledge culture, and demand that our new Anthropocentric gardens perform at a previously unforeseen level, both aesthetically and ecologically.
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