Georgina Reid on gardening and love in the Anthropocene.
Author Belinda Probert on growing a connection to her adopted country via gardening.
Writer Freya Latona on what it means to be an environmental activist, right here, right now.
An essay by Georgina Reid exploring an alternate way to care.
On uncovering the heart of a 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?
Exploring the ancient craft of predicting weather events by reading the landscape and the skies.
Growing vegetables, composting, the garden as temple. Another rambling essay by Georgina Reid.
A tale of street-side garden envy!
A story about romance, pragmatism and wildlife in Georgina Reid's river garden.
Freya Latona suggests it's time to redefine our animal nature as a means of re-connecting with the natural world.
A celebration of the relationship between mysterious nature and the cultivation of the human spirit.
Rebirth on the river...
An exploration of nature's gentle spiritual teachings on the human capacity for renewal by Freya Latona.
An international law of ecocide has the power to change the world.
Who cares about fancy cars, diamonds or big houses if there's no water?
Nature. It's simple and complex and fragile. And it's why The Planthunter exists.
A musing on the limited (but important) role of design in the creation of a garden.
A beautiful story by Sally Wilson about memory, marigolds, and the Mexican Day of the Dead.
A wonderful story by Josephine Pennicott exploring the relationship between creativity, loss, and the act of gardening in the lives of two women - Contemporary muse/artist Wendy Whiteley and novelist Frances Hodgson Burnett. A really beautiful read!
‘Orchid Sexual Deceit Provokes Ejaculation’, reads one headline as I dive headlong into the surprisingly well documented sex life of orchids....
If flowers symbolise love, what does it mean to poke a carnation down the loaded barrel of a soldier’s gun?
A funny, sad, and beautiful story by Lucy Kaldor involving her mothers funeral, Eucalyptus macrocarpa, and artist Laura Jones.
A gorgeous and heartfelt story by artist Genevieve Carrol about her wild garden in Hill End and the shelter it has provided her.
I was a child born in the lush, green garden belt of Sydney. It was an idyllic childhood, filled with...
Writing and gardening, seeing and being. An essay by Georgina Reid.
There is a garden near artist Katherine Throne's home that borders on bedlam...
An essay on finding common ground.
An honest and personal interrogation of what it means to be a settler gardener in Australia by Annie Farrell.
Freya Latona's neighbour has a beautifully ugly garden.
An exploration of grief and nostalgia, framed by the story of a pot plant.
A tale of family, nostalgia and Nana Eileen's huge old oak tree.
A story of a man, his spirit level and a tree museum.
Freya Latona muses on our innate desire to find home amongst nature.
A personal story by artist and gardener Clare James about the role animals have played in helping manage her anxiety.
What drives us to create gardens?
Natasha Grogan found her true identity in the garden.
Artist Penelope Aitken went to Sweden to imbibe Carl Linnaeus.
You can't always buy what you want, according to Clare.
Climate change, humans and a big fat green revolution. It's time.
Cultivating perspective, connection and hope in the garden.
Cleo Braithwaite writes of knowledge learnt from her biologist dad.
Lisa Marie Corso shares her approach to natural health care. A very entertaining read. As usual.
Concetta Corso, aka Nonna Corso, is a 76-year-old avid gardener, knitter and daytime television watcher. She moonlit for over a decade as a professional babysitter.
An essay on the Eucalyptus tree as a symbol of Australian nationalistic passion. A great story by Lucy Kaldor.
Occasionally I get so obsessed with a family of plants that I stalk each member thoroughly, to understand how it...
From Epicurus’ garden school, to the grandeur of Versailles, to the crop of community gardens popping up in cities the...
A brilliant essay by artist and thinker Karina Jean Sharpe on the power struggle between people and plants.
Most of us have experienced that spine-tingling moment when, triggered by a passing scent carried on the wind, memories of...
Gardens exist at the intersection between humans and the natural world. We create them for many reasons. Sometimes for shelter...
A personal story of loss, grief and growth in the garden.