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Shared Pleasures: The Joys of Other Peoples’ Gardens

Jac Semmler·Images By Caitlin Mills·
BotanicaGardens
Plant-a-holic Jac Semmler is in love with visiting other peoples' gardens.

The Dwindling Glades of Gondwana

Peter Grant·Images By Peter Grant·
BotanicaEcologyMemoir
Essayist Peter Grant on the plight of Tasmania's endemic, and imperilled, Pencil Pine.

Growing the Future: A Conversation with Lille Madden

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
ConversationsCulture
Lille Madden is a climate activist, bird nerd and the First Nations Director at Groundswell Giving.

Gardening as Surrender

Georgina Reid·
People
A conversation with garden designer and author Richard Unsworth of Garden Life.

Transformative Landscapes: Brooklyn Naval Cemetery Landscape

Georgina Reid·
Gardens
A Nelson Byrd Woltz designed public space by in New York is created for contemplation and connection.

River Diaries: Getting Lost in the Issue

Georgina Reid·Images By Georgina Reid·
Culture
A behind-the-scenes peek into the process of making Wonderground Issue Two.

Transformative Landscapes: Wild Yards Project

Georgina Reid·
Gardens
Create a biodiverse, beautiful and compassionate garden, wherever you live.

Transformative Landscapes: Landscapes of Cohabitation

Georgina Reid·
Art & DesignGardens
'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

Ecological Anger Management

David Godshall·
Gardens
Breathing new life into a neglected Los Angeles park, one plot at a time.

Decolonising a Caribbean Garden

Ernesto Pujol·Images By Ernesto Pujol·
Gardens
Gardener and artist Ernesto Pujol on designing and tending a decolonised Puerto Rico garden.

Dirt is Good: Notes on Gardening in Australia

Belinda Probert·Images By Daniel Shipp·
CultureGardens
Author Belinda Probert on growing a connection to her adopted country via gardening.

Soils of Substance: A Guide by Jac Semmler

Jac Semmler·Images By Jac Semmler·
How-To
Our resident horticultural expert digs deep (geddit?) into the science of good garden soil.

Kate Seddon’s Glorious Gardens

Georgina Reid·
Art & DesignGardens
Meet Kate Seddon, a Melbourne landscape designer with a penchant for plants.

Backyard Adventuring with Filmmaker Beau Miles

Tanya Patrick·
ConversationsPeople
Beau Miles's exploits include sleeping in ancient gum trees, walking 90km to walk and eating 191 cans of beans. Tanya Patrick finds out more about this curious backyard adventurer.

You’ll Never Plough a Field by Turning it Over in Your Mind

Matthew Evans·
Culture
What we do to the soil, we do to ourselves. An excerpt from Matthew Evan's new book, Soil: The incredible story of what keeps the earth, and us, healthy.

Kate Friend’s Botanical Portraits

Tanya Patrick·Images By Kate Friend·
Art & Design
British photographer Kate Friend's new series explores the relationship between people and their plants.

Designer Profile: Peter Shaw

Georgina Reid·
Art & DesignConversationsGardens
A garden ramble with designer Peter Shaw on Victoria's Surf Coast.

Tall Tree Tales: Inga Simpson’s Book of Australian Trees

Georgina Reid·
Culture
Inga Simpson's Book of Australian Trees brings the forest to the living room and classroom, helping kids see the leafy life around us.

Caroline Rothwell’s Infinite Herbarium

Georgina Reid·
Art & Design
An interview with Sydney based visual artist Caroline Rothwell about plants, art, and painting with carbon emissions.

Growing Compost and Community

Hannah Churton·
Culture
Hannah Churton started a street composting hub during the COVID-19 lockdown, diverting over two tonnes of food waste from landfill and growing strong community connections. A gorgeous story.

How-To: Propagate Plants Using Soft-Tip Cuttings

Jac Semmler·Images By Jac Semmler·
BotanicaHow-To
Go maximal plant! Learn how take soft-tip cuttings with horticultural expert Jac Semmler.

Ecological Treasure Hunting with Artist Penny Sadubin

Tanya Patrick·
Art & DesignPeople
Penny Sadubin's art explores the complexity, importance and beauty of endangered ecological communities.

River Garden Diaries: Playing in the Layers

Georgina Reid·
CultureGardens
A musing by Georgina Reid on gardening in the space between knowledge and intuition.

The Garden as Breath: A Sydney Garden Designed by Spirit Level

Georgina Reid·
Gardens
A visit to an austere Sydney garden in a spectacular bushland setting.

The Wonder of Seeds (and How to Successfully Germinate Them)

Jac Semmler·
BotanicaHow-To
Our horticultural expert, Jac Semmler, offers the ultimate seed-sowing guide.

Book Review: Spirit of the Garden

Georgina Reid·
Gardens
A new book by Trisha Dixon explores the elusive essence of gardens and landscapes.

River Garden Diaries: The Mind is a Garden

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Culture
Georgina Reid explores the relationship between gardening the earth and the mind.

Growing Knowledge: The Value of University Food Gardens

Dr Cathy Sherry·
Culture
Why universities need to embrace practical, as well as theoretical, knowledge.

Designing Abundance with Claudia West

Georgina Reid·
Art & DesignConversationsPeople
A conversation with trailblazing landscape architect and ecological design advocate, Claudia West

Running with the Plants: Women Leading New Conversations about Nature

Georgina Reid·
Culture
Meet five women who are shifting conversations about plants and people.

New Shoots: Bushfire Recovery, One Year on

Georgina Reid·
Botanica
What has happened in the forests and on the ground one year on from Australia's Black Summer bushfires?

Australia-first research reveals staggering loss of threatened plants over 20 years

Georgina Reid·
Botanica
When it comes to threatened species, charismatic animals usually get the most attention. But many of Australia’s plants are also in grave danger of extinction, and in many cases, the problem is getting worse.

Leaving no Trace: Design as Fertile Practice

d-o-t-s·
Art & Design
What if objects were designed as gifts to the world? A provocative essay by the curators of Plant Fever exhibition.

The Well Gardened Mind

Georgina Reid·
Culture
A review of the Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith.

Work the Soul Must Have: On the Photographs of Johanna Tagada-Hoffbeck

Joanna L. Cresswell·Images By Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck·
Art & Design
Take a stroll through the garden with UK based artist Johanna Tagada-Hoffbeck.

Landscape as Protagonist: New Perspectives on Cities and Nature

Stéph Donse·
Art & Design
An essay by Stéph Donse exploring the complex relationship between cities and nature.

Rest, Repose and Race: Leslie Bennett and Black Sanctuary Gardens

Georgina Reid·
ConversationsGardens
A chat with landscape designer and founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens, Leslie Bennett, about race, visibility and action in the garden.

The New World, Tomatoes and Mortgage Lifters

Laura Daquino·Images By Daniel Shipp·
BotanicaCulture
On tomatoes, discovery and creativity in trying times.

Attention is the Beginning of Devotion

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Culture
A musing on what it means to pay attention to nature.

Light in the Dark: Photographer Jane Fulton Alt

Georgina Reid·
Art & DesignConversations
A chat about landscape, creativity and light with Jane Fulton Alt

The Art of Refusal: Lucienne Rickard’s Extinction Studies

Keely Jobe·
Art & DesignCulture
An extraordinary essay on extinction, art and erasure.

Reilluminate: The Garden at Night

Georgina Reid·Images By Allison Watkins·
Art & DesignGardens
An interview with Allison Watkins - photographer and night-time garden stalker.

“The still point of the turning world”

Georgina Reid·
Culture
A musing by Georgina Reid on the call to garden at times of uncertainty, and always.

The Value of Front Gardens in a Pandemic, and Always

Robert Champion·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Gardens
An ode to the importance of front gardens in challenging times.

A Celebration of Variegation

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Botanica
Variegated plants are the sequins and glitter of the botanical world.

Artist Profile: Sally Blake

Lucy Munro·
Art & DesignConversations
Sally Blake's art practice explores the complex space between humans and nature.

Plant / Life: Artist Lily Langham’s Incredible Country Garden

Georgina Reid·
Gardens
Lily's garden will knock your socks off. A brilliant cure for isolation blues.

Ectopic Plants: Life in the Cracks

Georgina Reid·Images By Chloe Ferres·
Art & Design
Photographer Chloe Ferres finds hope, and life, in the cracks.

Plants in the Post: An At-Home Project

Lucy Munro·Images By Lucy Munro·
How-To
You've got (plant) mail!

Grasping at Order: In the Garden, in the Mind

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Gardens
A musing on the complexity of gardening in a pandemic.

Victor Steffensen’s Fire Country

Lucy Munro·
Culture
Indigenous Fire Practitioner Victor Steffensen explains how Indigenous fire management could help save Australia

Saving Seeds With Jac Semmler, Seed Queen

Georgina Reid·
BotanicaHow-To
Save those seeds! Jac Semmler will show you how.

Interrogation and Regeneration with Artist Cara Johnson

Lucy Munro·
Art & DesignConversationsPeople
Artist Cara Johnson's works interrogate ideas around land management practices and the human relationship with the natural world.

The Earth is in Her Hands

Lucy Munro·
Culture
A conversation with the author of new book featuring 75 leading women of plants.

Jac Semmler’s Mad Perennial Garden

Georgina Reid·Images By Caitlin Mills·
Gardens
Jac Semmler has created a perennial wonderland in suburban Melbourne. A bit of whimsy, a bunch of madness and a lot of fun!

Once Upon a Tree War

Bede Brennan·
Culture
Bede Brennon dives into a complex and venomous debate over weeds and street trees in a quiet country town.

The Man Who Writes Lists: A Fire Story

Clare James·Images By Clare James·
Culture
Bird watcher and botanist Max James's property 'vaporised' in the 2020 Australian bushfires. This is Max's story, told by his daughter Clare.

A Smorgasbord of Beautiful Madness

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Gardens
Take a wander around a collection of wondrous, wild and joyful gardens.

Calling all Citizen Scientists and Dead Tree Detectives

Lucy Munro·
Botanica
Dust off your Hamburg hat, dig out your camera and get your notebook ready. There’s a mystery unfolding across Australia, and your help is needed to unravel it.

Seven Billion Burnt Trees

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Botanica
A conversation about plants and bushfire with Brett Summerell, Chief Botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.

Breathing Fire

Georgina Reid·Images By Georgina Reid·
Culture
An essay by Georgina Reid exploring questions of relationship and imagination in the wake of the Australian bushfires.

Stefan Burger is a Cacti Chaser

Georgina Reid·
BotanicaConversations
Stefan is the real, spiky, deal. We chat with him about his cacti hunting adventures in Chile, weird plant adaptations and more.

Musk Cottage: Rick Eckersley’s Rogue Garden

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
ConversationsGardens
Acclaimed Australian garden designer Rick Eckersley is a rogue. So is his garden. So is his upcoming book.

Nocturnal Medicine: Dancing in the Dark

Georgina Reid·
Art & Design
An interview with Michelle Shofet and Larissa Belcic of New York based design studio, Nocturnal Medicine

In the Stars: Astro-Gardening and Horticultural Horoscopes

Lucy Munro·
Botanica
What can your zodiac sign tell you about your gardening persona?

Into the Darkness: Light Pollution and the Dark Sky Movement

Emma Simms·
Culture
What do we lose when the lights stay on? Emma Simms on light pollution, the Dark Sky Movement and more.

Microbial Love: An Earthy Chat With the Land Gardeners

Georgina Reid·
BotanicaHarvest
A guide to deep soil appreciation with two of the most fanatical composters we've ever met.

What Tree Will You Be When You Die?

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Culture
Creating new life from death with memorial forests.

On the Other Side of Loss Lies Love

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Culture
A personal exploration of the relationship between ecological grief and transformation by Georgina Reid

Garden Visit: Ben Shaw’s Permaculture Oasis

Georgina Reid·
Gardens
Visit a lush and delicious permaculture garden with us!

Colleen Southwell’s Art Grows From the Garden

Georgina Reid·Images By Madeline Young-Holborow·
Art & Design
"I am unashamedly hoping to create work that is beautiful, contemplative and uplifting. I want it to speak, but with an optimistic, inquisitive and gentle voice."

Ghostly Gardens and Earthly Memories

Emma Simms·
Gardens
A tale of ghost gardens and stories from the soil.

Dancing with Diversity: Climate-Proofing Nardoo Hills Reserve

Lucy Munro·
Botanica
An innovative and ambitious approach to restoration ecology at Nardoo Hills Bush Heritage reserve

Plants are not Objects: A Spiky Photo Essay

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Gardens
A visit to the Huntington Desert Garden and a lesson in non-objectification of plants.

Life is Complicated and Mysterious and Dogmatism is Boring

Georgina Reid·
Gardens
On making unconstrained, ecologically rich, meaningful and beautiful gardens

Healing Women, Healing the Earth: An interview with Jane Hardwicke Collings

Freya Latona·
ConversationsCulture
Freya Latona chats with women's mysteries teacher and founder of the school of sharmanic womencraft, Jane Hardwicke-Collings.

Alice Fox is a Natural Fibre Artist, Scientist and Gardener

Lucy Munro·
Art & Design
A chat with natural fibre artist Alice Fox.

Plant / Life: Will Studd’s Edible Wonderland

Georgina Reid·Images By Caitlin Mills·
Gardens
International cheese man Will Studd is a VERY passionate vegetable gardener.

Case Studies: Questions of Home, Plants and Power

Georgina Reid·
Art & Design
An art project by Felicity Jones and Mark Smith exploring the cultural and environmental impacts of the Wardian case.

Super Bloom: New Floral Frontiers in Public Planting Design

Jon Hazelwood·
Gardens
What does it take to make engaging, dynamic and loved public spaces?

Touching the Earth: A Survey of Female Land Artists

Lucy Munro·
Art & Design
Lucy Munro shines a light on a bunch of acomplished and important land artists.

Obscure Edibles: Growing a Radical and Delicious New World

Georgina Reid·
Harvest
Two queens of the vegetable patch share their favourite obscure edible plants. Get growing!

Fiona Brockhoff’s Sublime Garden Wonderland

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Art & DesignGardens
Karkalla is one of the great private gardens of Australia.

Landscape Architecture and the Garden

Bede Brennan·Images By Bede Brennan·
Art & Design
Landscape architect Bede Brennan explores the sometimes fraught relationship between landscape architecture and gardening.

River Garden Diaries: All Prospect, No Refuge

Georgina Reid·Images By Georgina Reid·
Gardens
What to do with a windy garden?

Plant / Life: Bronte House

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Gardens
Come for a stroll through Sydney's heritage listed Bronte House and garden with one of it's current custodians, Anna van der Gardner.

Daniel Shipp’s Cast of Ugly Misfits

Daniel Shipp·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Art & Design
Meet photographer Daniel Shipp's gang of ugly plant misfits in their first ever glamour shoot.

How to Propagate Hoyas

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
How-To
Learn how to propagate hoyas from the experts!

The Dirt: Tamara Dean

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
People
A cup of tea and a bushwalk with highly acclaimed artist Tamara Dean.

The Dirt: Alan & Jill Collins

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
GardensPeople
An interview with a pair of octogenarian plant collectors.

A History of Botanical Illustration

Naomi Russo·
BotanicaCulture
The Amazon, a moonflower, and a .32 revolver. Botanical illustrators are so rock n roll.

Plant /Life: Brian & Trish Perkins

Georgina Reid·
GardensPeople
A modernist native garden in inner Melbourne.

Great Dixter: An Arts & Crafts Garden

Milena Dambelli·Images By Georgina Reid·
Gardens
Christopher Lloyd was the master of one of the most highly regarded arts & crafts gardens in England.

The Surreal Gardener: Edward James & Las Pozas (Part 2)

Sally Wilson·Images By Sally Wilson·
Gardens
Part 2 of Sally Wilson's visit to a surrealist dreamland in the middle of the Mexican jungle.

Interview: Hugh Main

Georgina Reid·
People
An interview with Hugh Main, co-founder and director of Sydney landscape design firm, Spirit Level.

Plant / Life: A Tiny Brunswick Garden

Georgina Reid·Images By Eve Wilson·
GardensPeople
A luscious and leafy little garden in Brunswick, Victoria proves that size isn't everything.

The Surreal Gardener: Edward James & the Making of Las Pozas

Sally Wilson·Images By Sally Wilson·
Gardens
A visit to a surrealist garden in the heart of Mexican jungle. Part 1!

The Dirt: Tracey Deep

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
People
An interview with Tracey Deep, artist and curator of nature.

Cemeteries: Death & the Landscape

Georgina Reid·Images By Daniel Shipp·
Culture
Are cemeteries the most human of all landscapes? A musing on death, landscape and culture.
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