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Gardens

A Native Northern Rivers Garden Inspired By National Parks

A family's half-acre property filled with meandering garden paths has places for star-gazing, wandering, and sitting by the fire.
Gardens

A Breathtaking Garden Inspired By Painterly Landscapes

A once bare paddock has been transformed into a canvas of whispering grasses, pretty perennials and colourful Australian natives.
Gardens

A Small Macedon Ranges Garden That Blossoms All Year Round

Step inside the vibrant property, which takes inspiration from famous English gardens.
Gardens

How Trial + Error Lead To This Enchanting Hillside Garden

After seven years of work, designer Louise Jones' half-acre block in Mount Dandenong reveals a sea of flowering natives.
Gardens

A Sprawling Country Garden In The Southern Highlands

Secret Gardens designed this classic country garden to blend into the rolling hills of its rural location.
Gardens

This Incredible Country Garden Unfolds Like An Enchanting Maze

Garden designer Deborah Hambleton has spent the last 18 years creating this magical garden in the Macedon Ranges. Step inside!
Gardens

A Fairytale Garden For A Country Cottage

Oak Cottage by Tim Pilgrim is a country garden that mirrors the wild and diverse planting of untouched nature.
Gardens

A Romantic + Productive Eltham Front Garden

Cottage perennials, ornamental grasses, and a wildflower meadow characterise this exposed front garden designed by Ashley James Gardens.
Gardens

A Florist + Doctor’s Albany Garden, Created Together Over 20 Years

Riverdale Farm is a private garden, flower farm, accommodation, and floral studio, established solely by the owners over two decades.
Gardens

An Incredible Bellarine Peninsula Garden Established By Longtime Locals

Landscape designers and Ocean Grove locals Jason and Steph King have established a thriving layered garden on their 1.6 acre property.
Gardens

A Spectacular Garden On A Country Farm, Complete With Outdoor 'Rooms'

Designed by Eckersley Garden Architecture, Illangi Farm features winding pathways and a 'hanging garden' covered by a steel pergola!
Gardens

The Bountiful Country Garden of The Design Files' Alice Ziebell!

Take a wander through the magical Korumburra garden of The Design Files' partnership manager Alice Ziebell, and see the unbelievable 'before' shots!
Gardens

A Native Garden For An Off-Grid Home, That Embraces The Elements

Native grasses, towering gum trees and panoramic views help draw the award-winning Elemental House into its natural surrounds.
Gardens

A Rambling, Romantic Garden For A Third Generation Farmhouse

A five-acre English-style garden surrounds The Farmstead Tatura near Shepparton, Victoria owned by a third generation farmer and his partner.
Gardens

A Cottagecore Folly Buried At The Bottom Of A Grand Garden

Cameron Kimber’s pocket-sized patch contains a sweet garden dwelling mirroring his stately home.
Gardens

An Abundant Biodynamic Flower Farm Guided By The Cycles Of The Moon

An inside look at Alchemilla in the foothills of Victoria's Otways, where Phoebe East cultivates her organic farm by the lunar cycles!
Gardens

A Dreamy Dahlia Garden On A Regional Family Farm

The incredible home garden of Daylesford Organics farmers Kate Ulman and Brendon Eisner, in regional Victoria.
Gardens

A Former Paddock Turned Vibrant Botanical Wonderland In Regional Victoria

Artist and garden designer Ralph Bristow has transformed his family garden into a colourful landscape that changes with the seasons!
Gardens

A Rambling Garlic + Dahlia Farm In The New South Wales Hills

Tenterfield Creek Organics is both a productive farm and a stunning Mediterranean-inspired garden!
Gardens

A Serendipitous Garden From Two Lifetime Gardeners

John and Jenny Shaw have been tending to this magical garden in Woodend for 50 years.
Gardens

A Vacant Cow Paddock Turned Relaxed Australian Country Garden

Weeds and camphor are replaced by lush natives, a veggie garden and a hilltop plunge pool in this country garden by Fig Landscapes.
Gardens

A Grandmother's Accessible, Flower-Filled Dream Garden!

Outdoor Establishments have turned a barren acreage in outer Sydney into an elderly client's dream garden.
Gardens

A Sweeping Country Estate Created From Dust

Dangar Barin Smith design an incredible Australian country garden in the Hunter Valley.
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A Video Tour Of Paul Bangay’s Own Legendary Garden

Can’t get enough of the iconic landscape designer’s famed garden, Stonefields? We made a video to give you even more!
Gardens

A Landscape Designer's Own Sumptuous Green Wonderland

Sam Crawford has been tending to her symphonic garden in the Macedon shire for the last 8 years.
Gardens

A Journey Through The Seasons At Paul Bangay's Monumental Private Garden

The esteemed landscape designer launches his new book: 'Stonefields: By the Seasons'.
Creative People

Business Is Blooming For This Idyllic, Family-Owned Flower Farm In NSW

Meet the family of six behind Jonima Flowers, a flower farm in regional NSW.
Gardens

An Earthy, Low Maintenance Garden In Victoria’s Macedon Ranges

A robust yet welcoming garden that is contemporary in design, and responsive to its conditions. 
Gardens

A French Provincial Dreamland In West Gippsland, Inspired By Monet’s Giverny Garden!

A pair of Australian francophiles bring their love of the French countryside to regional Australia.
Country Garden

An Artist's Blissful Garden Wonderland In Daylesford

Over 13 years Lily Langham has intuitively transformed her husband's inherited family farmland into a breathtaking, bountiful paradise.
Gardens

A Landscape Designer's Own Ever-Changing Garden

Capturing views of the Macedon Ranges, Kathleen Murphy's garden studio is a layered, outdoor wonderland.
Country Garden

A New Way To Experience The Garden Of St Erth

The Diggers Club's rambling open garden in Blackwood, just outside Melbourne, now offers glamping!
Gardens

Jenny Rose Innes, Serial Renovator And Garden Maker

A luscious and full residential garden in Bowral that's only four years old!
Country Garden

Heronswood House + Garden Celebrates A Milestone

We tour the grounds of Diggers Club, ahead of the not-to-be-missed Heronswood Harvest Festival.
Gardens

Sunnymeade Garden Open This Weekend

An impressive, sculptural garden in Anglesea, open to the public this weekend only!
Country Garden

A Wild and Productive Healesville Garden

Artist Clare James' garden is the product of years of creativity, lateral thinking and thrift.
Gardens

Antique Perennials

The duo behind an amazing Kinglake nursery reflect on losing it all, re-building from scratch, and the diversity of Australian flora.
Gardens

Flower Farm Collective

Vanessa Garcia and Dominique Northam’s slice of rural paradise, just outside of Dungog, NSW.
Gardens

Peter Shaw · Sunnymeade

An ever-evolving Anglesea garden, featuring a truly awe-inspiring undulating lawn.
Gardens

Cruden Farm · The Garden of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch

The exceptional Langwarrin garden of the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, created in partnership with her gardener and friend, Michael Morrison.
Gardens

Cloudehill

A passionate plantsman's once-in-a-lifetime garden.
Gardens

Natasha Morgan of Oak + Monkey Puzzle

Landscape architect and educator Natasha Morgan's lively property in the Central Victorian Highlands
Gardens

Cherrie Miriklis-Pavlou

We visit the bountiful garden of the woman behind Melbourne's iconic florist, Flowers Vasette.
Vegetable Garden

Building a Productive Garden

To celebrate the release of their first book, Matt & Lentil of Grown & Gathered teach us how to build a productive garden.
Gardens

Barry Byrne and Miguel Alvarez

Gardens

Lambley Nursery

The idyllic garden and nursery of artist Criss Canning and David Glenn in Ascot.
Country Garden

Larry and Mickey Robertson · Glenmore House

Country Garden

Matt and Lentil Of Grown&Gathered

Today our garden columnist Georgia Reid of The Planthunter introduces us to Matt and Lentil Purbrick of Grown & Gathered, who have crafted an idyllic life in Tabilk, an hour and a half north of Melbourne.
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