I wrote recently about the Australian Rock Garden at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden at the University of California, Santa Cruz, as a resource for home gardeners ...

Looking for native garden ideas? Australia’s geographic isolation has resulted in it being home to an extremely unique range of flowering plants, trees, and shrubs. The diverse assemblage of native ...

Hannah visits a gardener who has created an all-Australian garden at her coastal home. Gemma has quite sandy soil so has experimented with planting native species from many different parts of ...

I was recently privileged to visit the garden of Lavi Daniel in Cheviot Hills. Daniel has aesthetically assembled an astonishing collection of Australian and South African native plants. A studio ...

Sign up to the special Beating Around the Bush newsletter here. Australia is classified as “megadiverse” meaning it’s a global hotspot for plant and animal ...

The craft of cultivating bonsai evolved from Japan with a focus on miniaturising trees and plants. Recent enthusiasm for the world of tiny trees is seeing Australia's native flora re-imagined as ...

A sea of native grasses waving gently in the breeze greets visitors to Susan and Gordon Tait’s Northcote home. It’s a befitting entrance to the Victorian weatherboard owned by the founders of the luxe ...