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