Gardens
‘…a garden is fundamentally a place for use by people. It is not a static picture created in plants…’ – John Brooks
We love nothing more than hunting out the most interesting, loved, and beautiful gardens around the world and sharing them with you! From humble suburban gardens to cactus collectors in rural Victoria and jungle gardens in Mexico, we’ve got your green needs covered.
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Grow Your own Floral Wonderland
GardensJac Semmler's practical guide to playing with colour, light, texture and flowers in the garden.
Alive with Rock and Tree
Essays, GardensGeorgina Reid on gardening and love in the Anthropocene.
Know your (Black) Garden History
GardensAbra Lee finds freedom, sorority and affirmation in Black horticultural stories.
A Garden Made by Hands, Skunks and Fungi
GardensVisit an experimental Los Angeles garden that is constantly un-designing itself.
Fiona Brockhoff: Why Garden?
GardensAcclaimed Australian landscape designer Fiona Brockhoff on why she gardens.
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 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.
She Rests Under the Oleanders
Gardens, MemoirCamille Roulière tastes loss and love in the garden.
In Praise of Quiet Landscapes
Art & Design, GardensGardening can be about seeing as much as making, suggests Georgina Reid.
Minding the Garden
Conversations, Culture, GardensPsychiatrist, gardener and author Sue-Stuart Smith in conversation with Georgina Reid
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.
Gardening as Freedom: A Conversation with Dan Pearson
Conversations, GardensA conversation with landscape designer and writer Dan Pearson.
The Garden as Ecological Island
GardensCan a suburban garden become an ecological island? NZ artist Michael Shepherd finds out.
Saving Grace: Bill Henson Moves his Childhood Garden
Culture, GardensBill Henson moves his late mother's garden, before the bulldozers arrive.
Shared Pleasures: The Joys of Other Peoples’ Gardens
GardensPlant-a-holic Jac Semmler is in love with visiting other peoples' gardens.
Transformative Landscapes: Brooklyn Naval Cemetery Landscape
GardensA Nelson Byrd Woltz designed public space by in New York is created for contemplation and connection.
Transformative Landscapes: Wild Yards Project
GardensCreate a biodiverse, beautiful and compassionate garden, wherever you live.
Transformative Landscapes: Landscapes of Cohabitation
Art & Design, Gardens'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
Ecological Anger Management
GardensBreathing new life into a neglected Los Angeles park, one plot at a time.
Decolonising a Caribbean Garden
GardensGardener and artist Ernesto Pujol on designing and tending a decolonised Puerto Rico garden.
Dirt is Good: Notes on Gardening in Australia
Culture, GardensAuthor Belinda Probert on growing a connection to her adopted country via gardening.
Kate Seddon’s Glorious Gardens
Art & Design, GardensMeet Kate Seddon, a Melbourne landscape designer with a penchant for plants.
Designer Profile: Peter Shaw
Art & Design, GardensA garden ramble with designer Peter Shaw on Victoria's Surf Coast.
River Garden Diaries: Playing in the Layers
Culture, GardensA musing by Georgina Reid on gardening in the space between knowledge and intuition.
The Garden as Breath: A Sydney Garden Designed by Spirit Level
GardensA visit to an austere Sydney garden in a spectacular bushland setting.
Book Review: Spirit of the Garden
GardensA new book by Trisha Dixon explores the elusive essence of gardens and landscapes.
Dig in: A New Gardening Column by Jac Semmler
GardensJac Semmler kills plants, and she's our newest gardening columnist.
Rest, Repose and Race: Leslie Bennett and Black Sanctuary Gardens
GardensA chat with landscape designer and founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens, Leslie Bennett, about race, visibility and action in the garden.
Reilluminate: The Garden at Night
Art & Design, GardensAn interview with Allison Watkins - photographer and night-time garden stalker.
The Value of Front Gardens in a Pandemic, and Always
GardensAn ode to the importance of front gardens in challenging times.
Plant / Life: Artist Lily Langham’s Incredible Country Garden
GardensLily's garden will knock your socks off. A brilliant cure for isolation blues.
Grasping at Order: In the Garden, in the Mind
GardensA musing on the complexity of gardening in a pandemic.
Jac Semmler’s Mad Perennial Garden
GardensJac Semmler has created a perennial wonderland in suburban Melbourne. A bit of whimsy, a bunch of madness and a lot of fun!
A Smorgasbord of Beautiful Madness
GardensTake a wander around a collection of wondrous, wild and joyful gardens.
Musk Cottage: Rick Eckersley’s Rogue Garden
GardensAcclaimed Australian garden designer Rick Eckersley is a rogue. So is his garden. So is his upcoming book.
Garden Visit: Ben Shaw’s Permaculture Oasis
GardensVisit a lush and delicious permaculture garden with us!
Ghostly Gardens and Earthly Memories
GardensA tale of ghost gardens and stories from the soil.
Plants are not Objects: A Spiky Photo Essay
GardensA visit to the Huntington Desert Garden and a lesson in non-objectification of plants.
Life is Complicated and Mysterious and Dogmatism is Boring
GardensOn making unconstrained, ecologically rich, meaningful and beautiful gardens
Plant / Life: Will Studd’s Edible Wonderland
GardensInternational cheese man Will Studd is a VERY passionate vegetable gardener.
Super Bloom: New Floral Frontiers in Public Planting Design
GardensWhat does it take to make engaging, dynamic and loved public spaces?
Fiona Brockhoff’s Sublime Garden Wonderland
Art & Design, GardensKarkalla is one of the great private gardens of Australia.
Designer Profile: Juan Grimm
Art & Design, GardensWe chat with one of South America's most outstanding landscape designers, Juan Grimm.
Beauty and Courage: Thoughts on Life, Gardens and the Human Spirit
Culture, GardensThere is a garden near artist Katherine Throne's home that borders on bedlam...
River Garden Diaries: All Prospect, No Refuge
GardensWhat to do with a windy garden?
Plant / Life: Lyle Filippe of Roraima Nursery
Gardens, PeopleA visit to the garden and nursery of a self-confessed plant hoarder.
Design and Life: Xanthe White, Miguel Urquijo and Phillip Johnson
Art & Design, GardensThree outstanding designers with a deep appreciation for and reverence of the natural world.
The Dirt: Adam Simpson
Gardens, PeopleA visit to lawyer Adam Simpson's particularly particular moss garden in Sydney.
Plant / Life: Jo Ferguson
Gardens, PeopleA visit to a soulful coastal garden on the Mornington Peninsula.
The Dirt: Roderick Wyllie
Gardens, PeopleA garden adventure with landscape architect and plant nerd, Roderick Wyllie.
“Only Bulldozing the Rubbish”: A Meditation on the Beauty of Chaos
GardensBill Bampton explores the human desire to make chaos conform.
War Gardens: the Search for Calm amid Chaos
GardensA journey through the war gardens of Afghanistan, Gaza, Israel, the West Bank & Ukraine with war photographer, Lalage Snow.
Plant / Life: A Melbourne Riverside Garden
GardensRamble around this wild garden with us!
Nostalgia in the Garden: Help, Hindrance or Somewhere in Between?
GardensA survey of garden designers and makers on the subject of nostalgia.
Plant / Life: Bronte House
GardensCome for a stroll through Sydney's heritage listed Bronte House and garden with one of it's current custodians, Anna van der Gardner.
Plant/Life: The Garden of St Erth
GardensWe head to the hills of central Victoria for a ramble around a historic and highly productive garden.
David and Sheila: A Pair of Extraordinary Gardeners
GardensBede Brennan's grandparents are the most remarkable gardeners he knows.
Over the Fence: On Marsupials and Garden Making
GardensHow does a fence change the way we interact with a garden/landscape?
The New Normal: Gardening for the Future in Rural Australia
GardensWhat does an increasingly extreme climate look like for gardeners in rural Australia?
River Garden Diaries: Austerity, Abundance and an Empty Idea
GardensOn uncovering the heart of a garden.
Leona Romaniuk’s Garden of a Lifetime
GardensVisit a garden in Brisbane that's been loved and cared for by its owner, Leona Romaniuk, for over sixty years.
Australian Dreamscapes: The Art of Gardening
GardensImmerse yourself in the wild beauty of photographer Claire Takacs's new book, Australian Dreamscapes
Living Art: Lina’s Garden
GardensShare in the wonder of Lina Massi's lovingly-tended Sydney garden.
Plant/Life: A Camberwell Family Garden
Gardens, PeopleDrop by this gorgeous Melbourne family garden!
Bill Henson’s Post-Industrial Walled Garden
GardensVisit this acclaimed Australian artist's incredible courtyard garden in Melbourne.
River Garden Diaries: And then the Snake (and the Rain) Came
GardensThat time a diamond python visited my garden.
Horticultural Semiotics: Ugly Beautiful Los Angeles
GardensLos Angeles is ugly but only if you don’t have the eyes to see it...
A Love Letter to My Neighbour’s Ugly Garden
GardensFreya Latona's neighbour has a beautifully ugly garden.
Falling into the Future: Nostalgia, Grief and Granny’s Begonia
GardensAn exploration of grief and nostalgia, framed by the story of a pot plant.
Plant / Life: Andrea Fitzpatrick of Botanick Brisbane
Gardens, PeopleAndrea has transformed an industrial wasteland into a plant paradise.
The Dirt: David Fripp and Blake Jolley
Gardens, PeopleCheck out THE BEST plant collection we've ever stumbled across!
River Garden Diaries: Composting jellyfish and other meanderings
GardensGrowing vegetables, composting, the garden as temple. Another rambling essay by Georgina Reid.
Plant/Life: Wildenstein
GardensWildenstein is a rambling 12-acre garden in the Blue Mountains town of Mount Wilson
Sharon Pie’s Garden Compound
GardensWe drop by the Pie family compound in Brisbane (and fall in love with Sharon).
From Damascus to Kyoto: Victoria Alexander’s Garden Travels
GardensDive into part two of Victoria Alexander's world tour of planty places.
Designer Profile: TALC Studio
Art & Design, GardensMeet a pair of plant-obsessed San Francisco-based designers of intentionally chaotic gardens.
From Oaxaca to Amsterdam: Victoria Alexander’s Garden Travels
GardensA world garden tour with author and photographer Victoria Alexander.
Plant / Life: A Lush Fitzroy Garden
GardensA lush Melbourne garden designed by Amanda Oliver.
Phoebe Stephens’ Wild Brisbane Garden
GardensGet lost in Phoebe's wild garden with us!
Plant/Life: Jenny Rose-Innes
GardensVisit this magnificent relaxed formal Bowral garden with us!
Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbour’s Garden
GardensA tale of street-side garden envy!
A Tropical Brisbane Garden Wonderland
GardensA visit to Sebastian Di Mauro's glorious tropical garden in Brisbane.
The Dirt: Barry Kable
Gardens, PeopleMeet Australia's most enthusiastic truck driver turned plant collector!
Plant/Life: Sean Cook
Gardens, PeopleThe lush inner city garden of leading Sydney florist, Sean Cook of Mr Cook.
Secret Gardens: A Book by Matthew Cantwell
GardensA new book from leading Sydney landscape designer and founding director of Secret Gardens.
Designer Chat: Miguel Urquijo
Gardens, PeopleA chat with Spanish designer Miguel Urquijo about 'homeness', not replicating nature, and much more.
Angus Stewart on Attracting Native Animals to the Garden
GardensA chat with the boss man of Australian native plants about creating habitat gardens.
River Garden Diaries: Neighbourly Relations
GardensA story about romance, pragmatism and wildlife in Georgina Reid's river garden.
Designer Chat: Andy Sturgeon
GardensMeet one of the UK's leading garden designers, Andy Sturgeon!
Plant/Life: Heronswood House and Garden
GardensHeronswood is home to The Digger's Club's living catalogue of rare plants and heirloom seeds. And it's gorgeous!
Plant / Life: William Dangar’s Bondi Garden
Gardens, PeopleVisit Sydney landscape landscape designer William Dangar's lush Bondi garden with us!
A Guide to Creating Mystery in the Garden
GardensA chat to two of Australia's foremost garden designers - Michael McCoy and Fiona Brockhoff - about creating mystery in the garden.
Robin McLay: The Gentle Gardener
GardensRobin McLay, owner of Brookfield Garden Centre, is a woman of the earth.
Designing with Nature: The 2018 Australian Landscape Conference
GardensAustralia's favourite landscape conference is back in 2018, featuring a stellar lineup of speakers.
Plant/Life: Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland
GardensCheck out this award-winning urban wetland in Adelaide with us!