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Poet of Place

A conversation with acclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller.

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Love stories for earthly survival

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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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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.

Grow Your own Floral Wonderland

GardensJac Semmler's practical guide to playing with colour, light, texture and flowers in the garden.

Coming to Ground: a chat with Kirsten Bradley

ConversationsPermaculture educator and writer, and co-director of Milkwood, Kirsten Bradley on non-binary thinking and doing.

The Wild Streets of Vancouver

Culture, GardensA city lets its grass grow.

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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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