Poet Jacqueline Suskin on questions of time, transformation and activism.
Wonderground guest poetry editors Paul Kelly and Siân Darling chat with Georgina Reid.
A city lets its grass grow.
Award-winning author Inga Simpson dusts off her wildest self among trampled trees, thistles and birdsong.
Richa Kaul Padte contends with the power of nostalgia.
Tanya Massy walks upstream with Richard Swain, amid questions of custodianship and Country.
Jane Gleeson-White faces dark histories of war and trauma with help from an olive tree.
Zena Cumpston explores the power of plants to open up connections to Country, culture and ancestral knowledge.
Jess Bineth talks power and possibility with a lawyer on a mission to gain legal protection for Australia’s natural wonders.
Abra Lee finds freedom, sorority and affirmation in Black horticultural stories.
Find out more about regenerative thinking - why it's important, and where to start.
Diving into psychedelic medicine via profiles of three common, natural sources of psychedelics. By Liam Engel and Prue Gibson.
What does it take to fall in love with place, asks Annabel Boyer.
Ecosexuality and Derek Jarman's garden.
An inexhaustive exploration of line and desire.
The courage and patience required to make art can be found in unlikely places.
Christin Geall reflects on privilege, art and plants.
Our sense of smell tethers us unconsciously and elusively to people, places and our past. How? Why?
'I wonder whether I walked through a forest at all.' Courtney Adamson comes to ground in a desecrated landscape.
Recognising the value of life-supporting work in the home and garden.
Gamilaraay writer Marika Duczynski yarns with Wiradjuri artist, poet and author Jazz Money about language and Country.
Working towards legal ancestral personhood for Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River.
A sneak peek into Wonderground Issue Three, due for release in early June 2022.
Georgina Reid discovers what it really means to care.
Marika Duczynski gets to know Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River.
What can the stories of plants teach us about living with extinction?
David Whitworth explores new and old ways of seeing nature.
Psychiatrist, gardener and author Sue-Stuart Smith in conversation with Georgina Reid
Cultural anthropologist Natasha Myers chats with Georgina Reid about growing new worlds.
Some things, like gardening, come late. Others, like Country, are always there, according to Zena Cumpston.
Growing connections beyond the classroom with school-based nature education programs.
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.
Felix de Rosen roams the streets with Youtube botanist Joey Santore
The NSW floods are a call to take action on climate change, writes Anna Rose.
Writer Freya Latona finds respite in a patch of remnant rainforest.
Jeff Perry explores the complex story of gum trees in California.
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 behind-the-scenes peek into the process of making Wonderground Issue Two.
Author Belinda Probert on growing a connection to her adopted country via gardening.
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.
Inga Simpson's Book of Australian Trees brings the forest to the living room and classroom, helping kids see the leafy life around us.
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.
A musing by Georgina Reid on gardening in the space between knowledge and intuition.
Georgina Reid explores the relationship between gardening the earth and the mind.
Why universities need to embrace practical, as well as theoretical, knowledge.
Meet five women who are shifting conversations about plants and people.
On tomatoes, discovery and creativity in trying times.
A musing on what it means to pay attention to nature.
An extraordinary essay on extinction, art and erasure.
A musing by Georgina Reid on the call to garden at times of uncertainty, and always.
Indigenous Fire Practitioner Victor Steffensen explains how Indigenous fire management could help save Australia
A conversation with the author of new book featuring 75 leading women of plants.
Bede Brennon dives into a complex and venomous debate over weeds and street trees in a quiet country town.
Bird watcher and botanist Max James's property 'vaporised' in the 2020 Australian bushfires. This is Max's story, told by his daughter Clare.
An essay by Georgina Reid exploring questions of relationship and imagination in the wake of the Australian bushfires.
What do we lose when the lights stay on? Emma Simms on light pollution, the Dark Sky Movement and more.
Creating new life from death with memorial forests.
A personal exploration of the relationship between ecological grief and transformation by Georgina Reid
Freya Latona chats with women's mysteries teacher and founder of the school of sharmanic womencraft, Jane Hardwicke-Collings.
Design a garden with sexy times in mind!
The unusual story of a ubiquitous plant.
There is a garden near artist Katherine Throne's home that borders on bedlam...
Writer Freya Latona on what it means to be an environmental activist, right here, right now.
An exploration of the history of human mark-making on trees.
A chat with an etomologist about all things insects - their decline, importance, and how to help.
An exploration of our obsession with the tiny world of bonsai!
Georgina Reid on what it might mean to speak the indigenous names of plants.
The simple solution you can put into action to kick climate change to the curb!
An essay on finding common ground.
An essay by Georgina Reid exploring an alternate way to care.
Freya Latona explores the role of nostalgia in garden making.
Leading Australian voices Kate Cullity, Charles Massy, Lesley Patterson & Michelle McKemey on fire ecology in Australia.
On trees and humans co-existing in urban areas. And an elegy.
An essay by Jennifer Jewell on valuing, and encouraging, gardeners.
On choosing a career in gardening and horticulture.
On seeing plants as partners on the wheel of life and death.
An honest and personal interrogation of what it means to be a settler gardener in Australia by Annie Farrell.
Is it time we changed the way we depict jungles, from places of fear to reverence?
Kathryn Tam takes us on a mindfulness walk in the New York Botanical Gardens.
A musing on language, landscape, nature and words.
An excerpt from Karel Čapek's glorious book, The Gardener's Year
Landscape and literature - a match made in heaven!
Weeds are valuable resources in the age of the Anthropocene.
A magical tale about cultivating beauty in an abandoned garden.
We're killing our world. This is why love, and gardening, matters.
Is a gerbera uglier than a penis shaped plant that stinks of rotting meat?
We made a book! Read the ugly/beautiful truth about it here.
What role can plants play in stimulating brain function? Caitlin McAtomney finds out...
Exploring the ancient craft of predicting weather events by reading the landscape and the skies.
Just off the coast of Indonesia, a passionate team of coral gardeners are growing new ways to fight the war on ocean pollution.
A tale of family, nostalgia and Nana Eileen's huge old oak tree.