Wonderground is a shape-shifting publishing endeavour centred on re-imagining and re-storying human relations with the more-than-human world. Since 2013 we’ve built a vast international audience through our digital platform and more recently, a series of four print journals.

This website, which began life as The Planthunter, contains more than 1000 stories gathered over a decade of inquiry into human-nature relations. There are conversations, how-to guides, essays, photographic explorations of some of the worlds most incredible private and public gardens, and more-more-more. Think of it as a very overgrown, slightly mad, beautiful and interesting garden.

Wonderground is re-sprouting in 2025

After a period of dormancy, Wonderground is waking up. Thoughtfully, joyfully, insistently. Each month (more or less) one long-form interview will be published online. Interviewees will include landscape architects, artists, gardeners, poets, farmers; interesting humans doing exciting, wild and important things in support of life, in love with land, in relation to place.

Why interviews? There is magic in a good conversation – worlds shift and expand, new perspectives appear, new ways of seeing and speaking announce themselves. This vital, generative, and accessible form of expression feels important to be cultivating in this world at this time.

I have an abiding interest in the relationship between language and land – how the ways we talk and write affect how we relate to ourselves, each other, and the more-than-human world. I lean towards the poetic, but (mostly) maintain a healthy relationship with pragmatism. My name means ‘farmer’, or ’tiller of the earth’. My soul is made of soil. Find out more about me at georginareid.com

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