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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.
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.
Alive with Rock and Tree
Essays, GardensGeorgina Reid on gardening and love in the Anthropocene.
Tree Songs: Paul Kelly and Siân Darling in conversation
Conversations, CultureWonderground guest poetry editors Paul Kelly and Siân Darling chat with Georgina Reid.
Up the Back
Culture, MemoirAward-winning author Inga Simpson dusts off her wildest self among trampled trees, thistles and birdsong.
The Heart of the Forest: A conversation with David Lindenmayer
Conversations, EcologyWorld-renowned forest ecologist David Lindenmayer chats with Georgina Reid.
Northern Rivers
PoetryA poem by Paul Kelly.
Tiny Tree Tales
BotanicaSix short stories about trees.
Song of Myself, Section 52
PoetryA poem by Walt Whitman, introduced by Siân Darling.
Know your (Black) Garden History
GardensAbra Lee finds freedom, sorority and affirmation in Black horticultural stories.
#04: Family / Tree
From The EditorThis issue of Wonderground is overflowing with inspiring, exciting and cup-filling ideas, stories and conversations. Just like a healthy forest ecosystem, there’s a diversity of light and dark, hope and wonder. In fact, consider the fourth issue of Wonderground a forest itself – a window into worlds personal and mythical, ideas alive and ageless; a place mysterious and mad, meaningful and beautiful.
Wonderground Issue Four
CultureFind out more about Wonderground Issue Four.
A Garden Made by Hands, Skunks and Fungi
GardensVisit an experimental Los Angeles garden that is constantly un-designing itself.
On a Quiet Day, I Can Hear Her Breathing: Photography by Rae Begley
Art & DesignA new photographic series by Rae Begley capturing the breath, beauty and fragility of planet Earth.
Indoctrinated by Plants
Botanica, CultureDiving into psychedelic medicine via profiles of three common, natural sources of psychedelics. By Liam Engel and Prue Gibson.
The World we Make: A Musing on Place and Belonging
CultureWhat does it take to fall in love with place, asks Annabel Boyer.
Fiona Brockhoff: Why Garden?
GardensAcclaimed Australian landscape designer Fiona Brockhoff on why she gardens.
Cutting Back: Pruning for Renewal
How-ToGarden queen Jac Semmer shares expert advice on winter pruning for health and renewal.
#03: Desire Lines
From The EditorIssue Three of Wonderground explores the ways in which lives are shaped by both desire and line. We’re exploring ideas of ecosexuality and Derek Jarman’s garden, mapping flight paths, meandering along desire lines, tracing the story of Nikolai Vavilov, using desire as a design tool, and holding tight to the rope stretched across the deep.
Keeper of Place
PeopleLearned student and gentle teacher Mark Parre has dedicated his life to care, curiosity and growth.
Flight Paths
EcologyThe lines that mark movement of animals and plants across landscapes are mysterious and long misunderstood. What can we learn about our world and ourselves if we pay them attention?
Beach Beat (Public Acts of Indecency)
PoetryNew poetry by Scott-Patrick Mitchell.
A Line Across the Deep
CultureThe courage and patience required to make art can be found in unlikely places.
Reckoning with Marianne North
Art & Design, CultureChristin Geall reflects on privilege, art and plants.
Tracing the Sky: Ornithographies by Xavi Bou
Art & Design, EcologySpanish photographer Xavi Bou makes visible the invisible movements of birds in the sky.
Scent and Memory
Culture, MemoirOur sense of smell tethers us unconsciously and elusively to people, places and our past. How? Why?
Between the Lines
CultureAn inexhaustive exploration of line and desire.
Paths of Least Resistance: A Conversation With Teresa Moller
Art & Design, ConversationsAcclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller chats with Georgina Reid.
Conversations with Plants
BotanicaEvolutionary biologist Monica Gagliano tunes into the desires of plants.
Love Letters to Country
Culture, PeopleGamilaraay writer Marika Duczynski yarns with Wiradjuri artist, poet and author Jazz Money about language and Country.
phosphorescence
Poetry16.06.2022 Words by Jazz Money Images by Daniel Shipp Issue 3Poetry…
A Forestless Path
Culture, Ecology'I wonder whether I walked through a forest at all.' Courtney Adamson comes to ground in a desecrated landscape.
Choreographing Desire
Agriculture, EcologyHow can land be managed in a way that liberates, not smothers, ecological processes?
Labour Relations
CultureRecognising the value of life-supporting work in the home and garden.
The Collector
Agriculture, CultureNikolaj Vavilov lived, and died, for diversity.
Site Unseen
Art & DesignThree artists speak about how the land we live on is cleaved by borders or shaped by colonial desires.
Ogmographia
PoetryA poem by India Flint.
Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
GardensTo be a gardener is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads.
The Law of the Land
Culture, EcologyWorking towards legal ancestral personhood for Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River.
Desire Lines: An Introduction to Issue Three
CultureA sneak peek into Wonderground Issue Three, due for release in early June 2022.
Subscribe to Wonderground and WIN!
CultureA most excellent giveaway.
Letter from the Editor: Welcome to Wonderground
From The EditorThe Planthunter is now Wonderground. Find out more!
Explainer: The Planthunter is now Wonderground
From The EditorWhat? Where has the Planthunter gone?! Find out more, here.
Hot Tips: Planting, Transplanting and Dividing Plants
How-ToOur horticultural queen Jac Semmler has a guide to planting, transplanting and dividing plants - the perfect Autumn garden job!
The Garden Pushes Back
GardensAn excerpt from James Golden's new book, The View from Federal Twist.
Gardening. Radicalised
Art & Design, Conversations, GardensDavid Godshall chats with Georgina Reid about remaking landscape architecture.
The Well of Grief
PoetryA poem by David Whyte.
Gaining Ground
Agriculture, MemoirElizabeth Farrelly discovers the reality of life on the land.
Other-Motherhood
Culture, MemoirGeorgina Reid discovers what it really means to care.
Knowing River
Culture, EssaysMarika Duczynski gets to know Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River.
The Everybody Ensemble
EssaysNew writing by award-winning author Amy Leach
She Rests Under the Oleanders
Gardens, MemoirCamille Roulière tastes loss and love in the garden.
The Lost Flora
Art & Design, Culture, EssaysWhat can the stories of plants teach us about living with extinction?
Keeping Track
Culture, EssaysDavid Whitworth explores new and old ways of seeing nature.
Miss Galbraith and I
Memoir, PeopleOne book has a profound effect on Michael McCoy
Adventureland
PoetryA poem by Monique Germon.
Earth Works
Art & DesignNeha Kale uncovers fertile ground in the art of Agnes Denes, Nicole Foreshew and Asad Raza.
In Praise of Quiet Landscapes
Art & Design, GardensGardening can be about seeing as much as making, suggests Georgina Reid.
My Pal Mel: An Ecstatic Encounter with an Endangered Plant
BotanicaRobert Champion makes friends with an endangered plant.
Minding the Garden
Conversations, Culture, GardensPsychiatrist, gardener and author Sue-Stuart Smith in conversation with Georgina Reid
Listening to Land
AgricultureIdeas of legacy, transformation and love with regenerative farmer and author Charles Massy and his daughter Tanya.
Memories of Soil
BotanicaIf soil could speak, 'unprecedented' would not be in its vocabulary.
Making Meaning not Mulch
BotanicaDavid Godshall chats with tree death-walker Jeff Perry.
Farming Futures: A Conversation with Bruce Pascoe
Agriculture, ConversationsA conversation with Bruce Pascoe about farming indigenous food plants.
The Beauty and the Terror
EssaysWriting and gardening, seeing and being. An essay by Georgina Reid.
Welcome to the Planthroposcene: A Conversation with Natasha Myers
Conversations, CultureCultural anthropologist Natasha Myers chats with Georgina Reid about growing new worlds.
How to Build the Alps
PoetryA poem by Rachael Mead
A Tree and a Boat
PoetryA poem by Tony Birch.
On Country
Culture, MemoirSome things, like gardening, come late. Others, like Country, are always there, according to Zena Cumpston.
The Art of Nature
Art & DesignNeha Kale meets four artists exploring new relations with nature.
Bowerbirds
FictionShort fiction by award-winning author Holly Ringland.
She-Oaked Shores
PoetryA poem by Dakota Feirer
Nurturing Nature: School-Based Nature Education
Culture, EssaysGrowing connections beyond the classroom with school-based nature education programs.
River Garden Diaries: An Aesthetic of Care
Culture, GardensGeorgina 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.
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn’t
Botanica, Culture, PeopleFelix de Rosen roams the streets with Youtube botanist Joey Santore
Introduction: Wonderground Issue One
CultureAn introduction to the inaugural issue of Wonderground journal, by editor Georgina Reid.
Introduction: Wonderground Issue Two
UncategorizedAn introduction to Wonderground Issue Two, by editor Georgina Reid.
A Message From the Flood Zone
CultureThe NSW floods are a call to take action on climate change, writes Anna Rose.
The Garden as Ecological Island
GardensCan a suburban garden become an ecological island? NZ artist Michael Shepherd finds out.
#02: Lost
From The EditorIssue Two explores notions of loss and discovery. Finding the future in the garden, losing plants and their stories, uncovering new ways of seeing the world, and becoming intimate with disappearance. The publication features essays, memoir, poetry and fiction from an eclectic collection of writers, thinkers, gardeners and artists. Wonderground Issue Two is hopeful, heartfelt, provocative and delightful – a salve for our times.
#01: Arise and Shine
From The EditorFeaturing a range of voices, views and ideas, the inaugural issue of Wonderground focuses on questions of transformation. Change is both constant and challenging, scary and stimulating and it feels fitting to start a new print journal, and a new year, exploring this topic.
A Remnant of Rainforest
CultureWriter Freya Latona finds respite in a patch of remnant rainforest.
Deity, Demon or Somewhere In-between: Eucalyptus Trees in California
Botanica, CultureJeff Perry explores the complex story of gum trees in California.
Saving Grace: Bill Henson Moves his Childhood Garden
Culture, GardensBill Henson moves his late mother's garden, before the bulldozers arrive.