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A conversation with principal of TERREMOTO, David Godshall.
A conversation with landscape designer and writer Dan Pearson.
Poet Jacqueline Suskin on questions of time, transformation and activism.
Wonderground guest poetry editors Paul Kelly and Siân Darling chat with Georgina Reid.
Permaculture educator and writer, and co-director of Milkwood, Kirsten Bradley on non-binary thinking and doing.
Georgina Reid on gardening and love in the Anthropocene.
World-renowned forest ecologist David Lindenmayer chats with Georgina Reid.
A new project grows ritual, connection and trees on Sydney’s streets.
Georgina Reid remembers a childhood planting trees.
If you’re looking for magic in your life, look no further than vegetative propagation.
Visit an experimental Los Angeles garden that is constantly un-designing itself.
An inexhaustive exploration of line and desire.
Acclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller chats with Georgina Reid.
Spanish photographer Xavi Bou makes visible the invisible movements of birds in the sky.
Evolutionary biologist Monica Gagliano tunes into the desires of plants.
To be a gardener is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads.
Working towards legal ancestral personhood for Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River.
A sneak peek into Wonderground Issue Three, due for release in early June 2022.
The Planthunter is now Wonderground. Find out more!
David Godshall chats with Georgina Reid about remaking landscape architecture.
Georgina Reid discovers what it really means to care.
Gardening can be about seeing as much as making, suggests Georgina Reid.
Psychiatrist, gardener and author Sue-Stuart Smith in conversation with Georgina Reid
Ideas of legacy, transformation and love with regenerative farmer and author Charles Massy and his daughter Tanya.
Cultural anthropologist Natasha Myers chats with Georgina Reid about growing new worlds.
Writing and gardening, seeing and being. An essay by Georgina Reid.
Georgina Reid explores explore an aesthetic of care that moves beyond the human as source and beneficiary of action. A de-centring of human desire in the garden.
Can a suburban garden become an ecological island? NZ artist Michael Shepherd finds out.
Bill Henson moves his late mother's garden, before the bulldozers arrive.
Lille Madden is a climate activist, bird nerd and the First Nations Director at Groundswell Giving.
A conversation with garden designer and author Richard Unsworth of Garden Life.
A Nelson Byrd Woltz designed public space by in New York is created for contemplation and connection.
A behind-the-scenes peek into the process of making Wonderground Issue Two.
Create a biodiverse, beautiful and compassionate garden, wherever you live.
'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
Meet Kate Seddon, a Melbourne landscape designer with a penchant for plants.
A garden ramble with designer Peter Shaw on Victoria's Surf Coast.
Inga Simpson's Book of Australian Trees brings the forest to the living room and classroom, helping kids see the leafy life around us.
An interview with Sydney based visual artist Caroline Rothwell about plants, art, and painting with carbon emissions.
A musing by Georgina Reid on gardening in the space between knowledge and intuition.
A visit to an austere Sydney garden in a spectacular bushland setting.
A new book by Trisha Dixon explores the elusive essence of gardens and landscapes.
Georgina Reid explores the relationship between gardening the earth and the mind.
A conversation with trailblazing landscape architect and ecological design advocate, Claudia West
Meet five women who are shifting conversations about plants and people.
What has happened in the forests and on the ground one year on from Australia's Black Summer bushfires?
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.
A chat with landscape designer and founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens, Leslie Bennett, about race, visibility and action in the garden.
A musing on what it means to pay attention to nature.
A chat about landscape, creativity and light with Jane Fulton Alt
An interview with Allison Watkins - photographer and night-time garden stalker.
A musing by Georgina Reid on the call to garden at times of uncertainty, and always.
Variegated plants are the sequins and glitter of the botanical world.
Lily's garden will knock your socks off. A brilliant cure for isolation blues.
Photographer Chloe Ferres finds hope, and life, in the cracks.
A musing on the complexity of gardening in a pandemic.
Save those seeds! Jac Semmler will show you how.
Jac Semmler has created a perennial wonderland in suburban Melbourne. A bit of whimsy, a bunch of madness and a lot of fun!
Take a wander around a collection of wondrous, wild and joyful gardens.
A conversation about plants and bushfire with Brett Summerell, Chief Botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.
An essay by Georgina Reid exploring questions of relationship and imagination in the wake of the Australian bushfires.
Stefan is the real, spiky, deal. We chat with him about his cacti hunting adventures in Chile, weird plant adaptations and more.
Acclaimed Australian garden designer Rick Eckersley is a rogue. So is his garden. So is his upcoming book.
An interview with Michelle Shofet and Larissa Belcic of New York based design studio, Nocturnal Medicine
A guide to deep soil appreciation with two of the most fanatical composters we've ever met.
Creating new life from death with memorial forests.
A personal exploration of the relationship between ecological grief and transformation by Georgina Reid
Visit a lush and delicious permaculture garden with us!
"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."
A visit to the Huntington Desert Garden and a lesson in non-objectification of plants.
On making unconstrained, ecologically rich, meaningful and beautiful gardens
International cheese man Will Studd is a VERY passionate vegetable gardener.
An art project by Felicity Jones and Mark Smith exploring the cultural and environmental impacts of the Wardian case.
Two queens of the vegetable patch share their favourite obscure edible plants. Get growing!
Karkalla is one of the great private gardens of Australia.
What to do with a windy garden?
Come for a stroll through Sydney's heritage listed Bronte House and garden with one of it's current custodians, Anna van der Gardner.
A street in inner city Sydney renowned for its cats and gardens!
An interview with Saskia Havekes, floral artisan, perfumer, and owner of Grandiflora Sydney.
An interview with Kate Cullity, director of award winning Australian landscape architecture firm, Taylor Cullity Lethlean.
Joost Bakker's favourite smell is the scent of soil when digging up potatoes.
An interview with herbalist, energetic healer, and passionate plant woman, Jacqui Bushell.
A magical small garden in inner city Sydney.
Larry and Mickey Robertson's garden at Glenmore house is medicine for the soul.
An interview with landscape architect Katy Svalbe of Amber Road.
A musing on the limited (but important) role of design in the creation of a garden.
Prominent Sydney landscape designer Matt Cantwell answers 25 cheeky questions about life and plants.
An interview with David Godshall, principal of Terremoto, a landscape architecture studio in California, USA.
In what could be the most exciting plant news since the discovery of the Wollemi pine, this story marks the...
It’s a hot afternoon in March when I catch the train to an arts centre in western Sydney to meet...
Gardens exist at the intersection between humans and the natural world. We create them for many reasons. Sometimes for shelter...
A chat with cactus collector Lester Meyers, of Gilgandra in north western NSW
A personal story of loss, grief and growth in the garden.
Not everyone is interested in hunting plants because they love them. Some may be interested in hunting to kill. Thats...