Helen Young

Helen YoungLifestyle Columnist

Treat your azaleas for lace bugs without harming the native bees.

Winter is the proper season of many Christmas-related plants, from holly and mistletoe to chestnuts and brussels sprouts.

Szechuan pepper trees grow from Tasmania to the subtropics. You can use the leaves in soups and salads.

Hunter Valley Gardens have been transformed into a winter wonderland over the NSW school holidays.

Redwoods, a stunning garden on a steep part of the Yarra River Valley, was built by a couple of passionate amateurs.

Readers’ Q&A with Helen Young. This week: using ash from a fire, yucca plants, lemon trees and magnolias.

Deciduous plants become dormant in winter so they can survive being dug up, pruned, packaged and shipped to you.

Coffee grounds have long been considered beneficial for gardens. But are they?

The garden at Belle Reve, overlooking Queensland’s Sunshine Coast, is filled with thousands of subtropical plants.

With its willow-fringed lake, Banna Billa, at Cowra NSW, is more like a beautiful park than a garden.