Create a garden that engages all the senses — the best fragrant plants for Australian conditions, placed for maximum effect.
Everything you need to know about growing vanilla orchid in subtropical and tropical Australian gardens — cultivation, hand pollination, curing, and the extraordinary flavour rew…
Discover which garden flowers are edible, how to grow them, and how to use them in stunning salads, drinks, and desserts.
Design principles, plant palettes, and construction techniques for creating a genuinely lush subtropical garden in Brisbane, coastal NSW, and northern WA.
Create a continuous supply of beautiful cutting flowers for the house — varieties, succession planting, and post-harvest care for vase life.
Design and grow a functional medicinal herb garden with the most useful healing plants suited to Australian conditions.
Design, plant, and maintain a spectacular rose garden suited to Australian conditions — from climate selection to pruning and disease management.
Grow and manage the most magnificent of all flowering climbers — varieties, training methods, and the secrets to reliable flowering.
A dedicated tea garden provides calming, medicinal, and flavourful herbs for homegrown infusions year-round. Chamomile, lemon verbena, tulsi, peppermint, lavender, and more — com…
Several Australian eucalyptus and corymbia species have documented edible or medicinal uses — from the extraordinary lemon-scented Corymbia citriodora to the sweet wattle lerp as…
Lemon myrtle has the most intense lemon fragrance of any plant in the world — and it's Australian. Learn growing this rainforest native in warm climates, harvesting leaves, and u…
Orchids are the world's largest plant family, and Australia has over 1,200 native species. A guide to growing both Australian native orchids and popular exotic species in Australia…
Sweet peas produce the most intensely fragrant flowers of any climber and time their peak perfectly with the Australian spring.
Australia's native mint species offer unique flavour profiles quite different from introduced mint — more complex, more herbal, and in some cases more intensely flavoured.
Homemade jam from garden fruit is one of the great pleasures of productive gardening — a skill that is easier to master than most people think.
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