Helen Young

Helen YoungLifestyle Columnist

Who knew you could train mushrooms to eat coffee grounds, polystyrene and petrochemicals? Stuart Muir Wilson, for one.

There’s nothing like sticky-beaking around other people’s places. Here’s a guide to getting your Open Gardens fix.

The garden of publisher Morry Schwartz and his gallerist wife Anna covers all the angles…

A gum tree in the back yard? Great idea. Don’t be put off by visions of forest giants – there are many lovely dwarf varieties.

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Some heroic plants can survive drought, fire, even being chopped into pieces.

Elegant restraint – “a simple, Japanese aesthetic” – is the key in this established garden near Adelaide’s Park Lands.

Waterlilies will bring joy to your life.

Ever thought of growing ginger — and other aromatic edibles in the same family — at home? It’s easier than you might think.

A project that “brings the national park in and over the building”? Now that’s thinking outside the box.

Frustrated that plants have been in such short supply since the pandemic struck? Here’s why.