Inspired
The Wrap Up: Hidden Design Festival 2015
24 July 2015 | Robin PowellHidden Design Festival offers a look at some of Sydney’s most exciting, professionally designed gardens. Here’s a look at a bit of what caught our eye this year.
Read MoreWinter Fragrance
06 March 2015 | Linda RossLinda Ross steps into the winter garden for aromatherapy of the botanical kind.
Read MorePostcards from the Garden World
13 November 2019 | Ross Garden ToursViews, reports, and travel tips from the world of Ross Garden Tours
Read More3 Ways to Jazz up your Front Garden
18 March 2015 | Linda Ross‘There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again’ wrote the American poet Margaret Elizabeth Sangster more than a century ago. Here are some great ideas for that perfect welcome home.
Read More7 great ideas from Holland's Floriade
03 March 2015 | Robin PowellOnce a decade the horticultural industry of Holland celebrates with a grand expo called Floriade. Each massive event is held in a different place and in 2012 it was carved out of a forest near Venlo, close to the Dutch border with Germany. Ideas? Well it had a few!
Read MoreArt in the Garden
21 August 2019 | Robin PowellEven the driveway is part of the art in Scotland’s inspiring private sculpture park, Jupiter Artland.
Read MoreBetter balcony gardens
21 May 2019 | Paul BangayIn this extract from his new book ‘Small Garden Design’, Paul Bangay shares his tips for that most difficult small garden - the balcony.
Read MoreBlooms and Brushstrokes
26 August 2019 | Penelope CurtinIn their floral history of Australian art, mother and daughter team Peneloep and Tansy Curtin uncover the stories behind some of our favourite floral artworks.
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Book review: Capturing Flora
24 February 2015 | Linda RossThe West Australian beauty exploding from the cover of Capturing Flora is Eucalyptus macrocarpa. The illustration is by Walter Fitch for a 1947 edition of Curtis' Botanical Magazine. Fitch used as his model a plant that had been grown from seed by the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, William Hooker.
Read MoreBronte House
03 September 2016 | Carla PetitBronte House does not open to the public often. So when the opportunity arises gardeners line up to catch a glimpse of this Sydney treasure. Catch Sandra Ross there at the Spring Open Day, September 18 2016. Carla Petit has been looking after the garden for four years, continuing a tradition of highly skilled gardeners who have cared for this histric house and garden. Here she tell us what's happening.
Read MoreChelsea 2015
12 November 2015 | Robin PowellAfter her first trip to the Chelsea Flower Show Robin Powell gave us her impressions. It was a show that reminded us of the beauty of nature barely gardened, and of gardens tended intensively.
Read MoreChelsea magic
31 August 2018 | Robin PowellChelsea is a magical garden world as full of dreams and emotion as it of of sheer hard work and skill. We took three groups on Opening Day this year and asked the tour leaders to tell us what moved them most.
Read MoreChinoiserie
13 September 2017 | Robin PowellMost of us choose to garden where we live; Dominic Wong chose to live where he wanted to garden.
Read MoreCloudehill
18 March 2015 | Jeremy FrancisJeremy Francis tells the story of his magnificent garden in ‘Cloudehill: A year in the garden’. In this extract he describes how a garden inspired by the golden days of Edwardian Arts and Crafts Design began to take shape in the rich moist soils of the Dandenong Ranges.
Read MoreCotswold Cottage Style
20 March 2015 | Michael McCoyMichael McCoy says the charm of its private gardens bolsters Bibury’s reputation as the most beautiful village in all England
Read MoreCountry life
05 February 2016 | Victoria Summerley
A romantically pretty country garden, on the edge of the city. That’s the dream of the owners of The Old Vicarage in London’s Petersham. Find out how they made it a reality in this excerpt from Great Gardens of London.
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Courtyard Makeover
20 March 2015 | Linda RossThis courtyard makeover matches the style of a Parisian café with the colours of rural France to create a charming space. Linda Ross tells how the space translated blah to ooh la la!
Read MoreCreating Inspiring Gardens
03 March 2015 | Michael McCoyMichael McCoy says a garden shouldn’t just look good, but feel good. Creating it is simple: make a great space, then decorate it. Could it be that easy?
Read MoreCuttings from the Garden World
27 August 2019 | Graham RossWelcome to spring. Here's Graham's cuttings from the garden world.
Delicious: Lentil’s summer breakfast bowl
13 December 2018 | Lentil PurbrickBreakfast eggs get a super-fresh makeover in this dish from ‘The Village’ by Matt and Lentil from Grown and Gathered.
Read MoreDreaming of flowers
13 November 2019 | Brdiget Elworthy and Henrietta CourtauldImagine this: you and a friend grow cut flowers on an old Oxfordshire estate and in your spare time restore and design walled gardens. Welcome to the world of Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy, aka The Land Gardeners. Meet them in this extract from their new book The Land Gardeners: Cut Flowers.
Read MoreEdibles everywhere
26 August 2019 | Robin PowellDelicious ideas seen on our travels this year
Read MoreEryldene: The Professor and the Camellia
21 May 2020 | Jane Garling
Jane Garling explains why E.G. Waterhouse had such a massive influence on Australian gardens.
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Five of the Best: Oudolf gardens
21 May 2020 | Sandra RossPiet Oudolf has changed the way we think about gardens. His planting designs of perennials and grasses are romantic, exciting, enriching and inspiring. These are some of our favourites.
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Five of the best: wisteria gardens
21 August 2019 | Linda RossHere’s our pick of the best places in the world to be thrilled by the fragrance, form and sheer delight of wisteria.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival
28 March 2018 | Robin PowellThe Loire Valley is renowned as ‘France’s Garden’, and in summer it hosts an international design festival that imagines the future of gardening.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Chelsea Flower show
31 August 2018 | Robin PowellChelsea is the prize bloom of the world's garden shows, and the reputation is well-deserved. Here Robin Powell shares her observations on what has been another breath-taking Chelsea Flower Show.
Read MoreGarden Festival Planner: Floriade Holland
20 May 2019 | Sandra RossIn 2022 this huge, once-in-a-decade festival will focus on inspiring ways for city-dwellers to connect with the beauty of plants and gardens.
Read MoreGarden Festival Planner: Hampton Court Flower Show
23 October 2017 | Linda RossIf the Chelsea Flower Show is the sophisticated sister, her younger sibling is bigger, more daring - and definitely friendlier.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Japan’s floral festivals
05 September 2018 | Linda RossOnce the cherry blossoms fall, Japan bursts into colour with azaleas, peonies and wisteria creating a crescendo of colour unknown to most international travellers - and not to be missed!
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Melbourne
19 December 2016 | Robin PowellMIFGS blooms in Melbourne in March. Here’s how to turn a day at the show into a real garden festival
Garden Festival Planner: Nambour
08 March 2017 | Robin PowellGarden lovers flock to Nambour in winter for their fill of new plants, gadgets and ideas. Here’s how to turn a day at the show into a real garden festival.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Nelmac Garden Marlborough
30 May 2018 | Michael McCoyThe gates open on incredible private gardens in this New Zealand festival, which also offers workshops - Great Dixter’s Fergus Garrett is the keynote speaker this year - and a garden party at Wither Hills Winery.
Read MoreGarden Sculpture
28 May 2015 | Linda RossMake your garden indisputably your own realm by the way you choose and use sculpture and ornament within it. Linda has some ideas for expressing humour, passion and personality in your garden.
Read MoreGreat Dixter
13 November 2019 | Robin PowellIs this old place England’s most exciting contemporary garden?
Read MoreGreat Ideas
08 July 2016 | Robin PowellWant some great garden ideas. Grab some tips and trends from the professionals who showed gardens in this year’s Hidden Design Festival.
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Great ideas from Country Victoria
13 June 2017 | Robin PowellWe found plenty of inspiration on our Ross Garden Tour of country Victoria last spring. Here are a few of our favourite ideas – all worth including in your own garden.
Read MoreGreen Escape
29 January 2018 | Jason BuschMichael Bates reckons that while a plumber might live with leaky taps, and a painter with chipped walls, a gardener never lives in weeds. To prove it he introduces his own garden in this extract from his new book, The New Australian Garden.
Read MoreHighfields
28 February 2019 | David KennedyIn November 2014 David Kennedy and Andrew Dunshea, creators of Katoomba’s wonderful Clover Hill, embarked on a new garden over the mountain in Little Hartley. In this extract from Claire Takacs’ new book, ‘Australian Dreamscapes’, David tells what happened next
Read MoreHow to: arrange flowers
31 May 2018 | Linda RossI love the look of flowers picked straight from the garden and casually arranged in a charming jug, jar, urn, vase - even a bucket. But when I pick a posy from my garden and aim for a natural aesthetic with casual grace, my arrangement looks not so much just-picked as just-plonked! So I asked Sonya Gardiner for help and these are her tips - the 5 Fs of Fabulous Flower Arranging.
Read MoreHow to: create a shell garden
28 February 2019 | Joanne AquilinaSucculents don’t need a lot of root space as they store most of their water and nutrients in their leaves. This means gardeners can get creative about where they create succulent gardens.
Read MoreHow to: create a water wonderland
19 February 2015 | Isla BarlowYou don’t need a big space to have your own water feature: a sunny spot on a balcony or in a courtyard will do. You can use any container, as long as it hasn’t had chemicals in it that would kill the fish. Isla made her water feature in a half wine barrel. Here’s how:
Read MoreHow to: grow a 'coral reef'
10 February 2015 | Linda RossSuch a simple idea – a coral reef garden full of dazzling succulents – and so fun! Philip Withers’ imitation of a world seen through water thrilled visitors to the Australian Garden Show Sydney and won him the people’s choice award.
Read MoreHow to: have garden fun with kids
13 November 2019 | Kate Neale‘Be back by dark’ tends not to be a phrase we associate with childhood these days, but given the chance, children still relish an opportunity to play outside. Kate Neale and her co-author, daughter Leelu, have plenty of ideas to help parents, grandparents and carers have summer fun in the garden with kids.
Read MoreHow to: lift your courtyard
14 May 2015 | Linda RossIn just one weekend the Garden Clinic team transformed a chilly corner into a welcoming sanctuary, that is simple to pack up and move to a new location when necessary.
Read MoreHow to: make a garden bridge
26 February 2015 | Linda RossWhile most of us don’t have a lake, our gardens may still benefit by a bridge used to link different sections across a ‘stream’ of garden bed, or dry creek of stones.
Read MoreHow to: make a garden in a glass
18 February 2015 | Isla BarlowBottle gardens or terrariums are mini plant worlds to enjoy indoors.
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