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Zoysia inching across a driveway in a garden designed by Paul Pritchard Landscape Design

The art of looking wild at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show

One of Australia’s most significant horticultural events, this year’s show tackled notions of rewilding, sustainability and rehabilitation, with ideas easy to apply to the home garden.

  • Megan Backhouse

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Autumn is the perfect time of year to start planning your winter vegetable crop.

Skip the farmers’ market: 10 superfoods to grow at home

Growing your own fruit and vegetables is not as hard as you might think. Even those with high nutritional value – the so-called superfoods – are well within reach.

  • Robyn Willis
The Duchess of Sussex foraging for food in the Montecito garden on her Netflix show, With Love, Meghan.

Meghan’s way: Five easy edibles to grow at home (including flowers)

We can’t all live on a beautiful estate in Montecito but you can still create a little Markle magic by growing your own food.

  • Robyn Willis
A community planting day at Melbourne General Cemetery

This inner-city garden is an unlikely model for renewal and rebirth

It may not see the most obvious place for a flourishing garden, but this project in Melbourne General Cemetery is gaining a growing following of fans.

  • Megan Backhouse
The new garden has lots of colours, plenty of textures and a city backdrop

Whimsy in the city: A new experimental garden has lessons for everyone

A meadow-style garden in the heart of Melbourne is designed to be discussed and dissected. It’s also open to the public.

  • Megan Backhouse
A render of how Laak Boorndap will look, behind the NGV and Arts Centre.

The MCG-sized garden set to make Melbourne’s arts precinct feel like a nature reserve

On a city rooftop, horticulturalists are putting plants through their paces to see which will make the cut.

  • Megan Backhouse
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Deadheading flowers encourages energy to be directed towards growing new blooms.

Four ways to tend to the garden you’ve been ignoring all year so far

Mid-summer may not be a peak period for gardening, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t small ways to make a difference.

  • Megan Backhouse
Kirsty Kendall and Emily Simpson have worked to amplify the mood that they first found in the garden.

Do the wild thing: The garden trends we’ll be seeing in 2025

From untamed backyards to seasonal scents, here is what the next year has in store in our backyards.

  • Megan Backhouse
In their book ‘Secrets from the Flower Farm’ (Thames & Hudson, $59.99), Rebecca Starling and Christine McCabe speak about the ‘serious rose revival’ in floristry

Roses are on-trend once again. Here’s how to help them flourish in your garden

From which blooms to choose to what to plant around them, gardening experts have some helpful advice.

  • Megan Backhouse
This Melbourne front garden designed by Emmaline Bowman includes a multitude of layers to support a diverse range of wildlife

How to create a native garden that birds and people will love

Even if your outdoor area is small – or confined to a balcony – it’s possible to design a space that’s welcoming to pollinators and passersby.

  • Megan Backhouse

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