Helen Young

Helen YoungLifestyle Columnist

This award-winning garden blurs the line between backyard and beach. How was it created?

In home gardens, coffee plants can be grown as a screening hedge, as specimen shrubs or in large pots.

There’s a right way to water, and a wrong way. Here’s my quick guide.

Exciting new varieties, colours and styles have reinstated these worthy shrubs as the stars of the summer garden.

Demand for real trees, cut and potted, has surged in recent years, but supply has been severely impacted.

Growing flowers seems like an idyllic occupation, especially when it’s combined with a country garden, pinot noir vineyard and writing.

This year’s crop of garden books has been a good one, offering plenty of choice for holiday reading or gift-giving.

Out of Black Saturday, this grand garden took shape- with input from renowned designer Paul Bangay.

The secret to a good hedge is pruning little, and often, from the get-go.

This timber pavilion – a modest addition, but so effective – has brought a new experience of outdoor living to a family home.