A musing by Georgina Reid on the call to garden at times of uncertainty, and always.
A personal story of loss, grief and growth in the garden.
'I wonder whether I walked through a forest at all.' Courtney Adamson comes to ground in a desecrated landscape.
The Amazon, a moonflower, and a .32 revolver. Botanical illustrators are so rock n roll.
The courage and patience required to make art can be found in unlikely places.
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.
A musing on what it means to pay attention to nature.
An inexhaustive exploration of line and desire.
An essay by Georgina Reid exploring questions of relationship and imagination in the wake of the Australian bushfires.
Are cemeteries the most human of all landscapes? A musing on death, landscape and culture.
Felix de Rosen roams the streets with Youtube botanist Joey Santore
Jeff Perry explores the complex story of gum trees in California.
A sneak peek into Wonderground Issue Three, due for release in early June 2022.
Author Belinda Probert on growing a connection to her adopted country via gardening.
Jane Gleeson-White faces dark histories of war and trauma with help from an olive tree.
We need more green roofs in our cities. Here's why.
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.
Why universities need to embrace practical, as well as theoretical, knowledge.
Lille Madden is a climate activist, bird nerd and the First Nations Director at Groundswell Giving.
Freya Latona chats with women's mysteries teacher and founder of the school of sharmanic womencraft, Jane Hardwicke-Collings.
Diving into psychedelic medicine via profiles of three common, natural sources of psychedelics. By Liam Engel and Prue Gibson.
What do we lose when the lights stay on? Emma Simms on light pollution, the Dark Sky Movement and more.
Zena Cumpston explores the power of plants to open up connections to Country, culture and ancestral knowledge.
David Whitworth explores new and old ways of seeing nature.
Abra Lee finds freedom, sorority and affirmation in Black horticultural stories.
Marika Duczynski gets to know Dyarubbin, the Hawkesbury River.
Recognising the value of life-supporting work in the home and garden.
Jess Bineth talks power and possibility with a lawyer on a mission to gain legal protection for Australia’s natural wonders.
Gamilaraay writer Marika Duczynski yarns with Wiradjuri artist, poet and author Jazz Money about language and Country.
Psychiatrist, gardener and author Sue-Stuart Smith in conversation with Georgina Reid
There's more to the act of hedging than meets the eye....
Growing connections beyond the classroom with school-based nature education programs.
Some things, like gardening, come late. Others, like Country, are always there, according to Zena Cumpston.
A personal exploration of the relationship between ecological grief and transformation by Georgina Reid
Bede Brennon dives into a complex and venomous debate over weeds and street trees in a quiet country town.
Georgina Reid discovers what it really means to care.
Richa Kaul Padte contends with the power of nostalgia.
Writer Lucy Kaldor explores the growing (ha!) green burial movement.
Christin Geall reflects on privilege, art and plants.
Find out more about regenerative thinking - why it's important, and where to start.
A behind-the-scenes peek into the process of making Wonderground Issue Two.
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.
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.
Meet five women who are shifting conversations about plants and people.
Samorn Saxinay is a weaver and designer who stumbled across the the idea of dyeing with food scraps, thanks to a hug from her grubby daughter.
Bill Henson moves his late mother's garden, before the bulldozers arrive.
Our sense of smell tethers us unconsciously and elusively to people, places and our past. How? Why?
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 extraordinary essay on extinction, art and erasure.
A conversation with the author of new book featuring 75 leading women of plants.
The medicinal/magical powers of the Australian Eucalptus tree, as discovered by Ferdinand von Mueller and explored by natural dyer India Flint.
Working towards legal ancestral personhood for Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River.
What can the stories of plants teach us about living with extinction?
Bird watcher and botanist Max James's property 'vaporised' in the 2020 Australian bushfires. This is Max's story, told by his daughter Clare.
On tomatoes, discovery and creativity in trying times.
Ecosexuality and Derek Jarman's garden.
Poet Jacqueline Suskin on questions of time, transformation and activism.
A city lets its grass grow.
What does it take to fall in love with place, asks Annabel Boyer.
Tokyo's potted street-side gardens are signposts to a city that believes confusion and connection go hand in hand.
Wonderground guest poetry editors Paul Kelly and Siân Darling chat with Georgina Reid.
Tanya Massy walks upstream with Richard Swain, amid questions of custodianship and Country.
Award-winning author Inga Simpson dusts off her wildest self among trampled trees, thistles and birdsong.
Indigenous Fire Practitioner Victor Steffensen explains how Indigenous fire management could help save Australia
Cultural anthropologist Natasha Myers chats with Georgina Reid about growing new worlds.
Creating new life from death with memorial forests.
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.