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Gardens

This Coastal Garden Is Formal At The Front, Party Out The Back

The couple behind Oliveri Landscape Design and Construction have created the ultimate garden oasis at their family home.
Gardens

How This Dream Suburban Garden Was Built From Scratch

This cottage-style garden by was installed over a Melbourne winter, and is thriving just seven months later!
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 Victorian Home's Whimsical + Winding Front Garden

This enchanting front garden filled with evergreen plantings has breathed new life into an old Victorian.
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

8 Beautiful Gardens Blooming With Inspiration From 2024

Over the past year we fell in love with so many beautiful gardens. Discover our favourite outdoor spaces from 2024 here!
Gardens

8 Of Australia’s Most Stunning Private Pools

Take a closer look at Australia's most breathtaking residential pools.
Gardens

11 Incredible Internal Courtyards That Bring The Outdoors In

These spectacular houses designed around internal courtyards show how the smallest of gardens can make a big impact.
Gardens

How This Landscape Designer Revived Her Family Backyard

Miniscape Projects founder Clea Cregan ditched the trampoline and ‘thirsty’ backyard lawn for a beautiful garden filled with edible plants.
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 Fairfield Garden Designed To Look Beautiful In Every Season

This new garden by STEM Landscape Architecture and Design attracts attention from passersby and local wildlife.
Gardens

How To Plant A Thriving Container Garden

Permaculture gardener Connie Cao shares how to use pots and containers to grow fresh produce from your own home.
Gardens

Before + After: An Outdoor Entertaining Area Transformed With 5 Tips

How we created a stylish and comfortable outdoor area with Koala furniture and five simple tips.
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

A Flourishing Melbourne Garden Bursting With Colour + Rustic Charm

It's the perfect addition to the historic Tudor-style property.
Gardens

This Dreamy Melbourne Garden Is Like An Impressionist Painting

The dramatic landscape is filled with lush greenery and plantings that erupt with colour in summer!
Gardens

A Lush Inner City Garden Full Of Colour + Texture

See how a 'mud pit' was transformed into a lush inner-city oasis!
Gardens

An Inner-City ‘Country’ Garden That’s Full Of Life

Saint Remy is a landscape design studio creating gardens that ‘make your heart sing’, and it all starts in the founder’s Thornbury backyard.
Gardens

This Multi-Functional Melbourne Garden Hides A 'Mini Food Forest'

A once 'classic Brunswick backyard' of concrete and sunburnt grass has been transformed into an inviting cottage garden.
Gardens

The Magical Coastal Garden Designed Around Lucy’s Beach Shack

This idyllic garden at Lucy and Gordy's beach house, Silvermoon, is a complete escape from their inner-city lives. See the before and afters!
Gardens

A Sentimental Cottage Garden In Melbourne’s Eastern Suburbs

Surrounding a cottage on a one-acre block, this garden by Ashley James features a meaningful memorial and a cut-flower garden.
Gardens

A Potter’s Abundant Garden In Hepburn, Victoria

Surrounded by native bushland, this sloping garden is a verdant and cascading wonderland of inspiration for potter Bridget Bodenham.
Gardens

Phillip Withers + Fiona Brockhoff Unveil A Uniquely Victorian Garden!

See Phillip Withers’ award winning show garden 'SaltBush' on display at MIFGS until this Sunday.
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

How To Create A Cottage Garden

Love the winding paths, abundant flowers, and romance of a cottage garden? Here's the expert advice you need to know to create your own!
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 Blooming Suburban Garden For An Edwardian Family Home

This Melbourne home features traditional gardens at the front and more relaxed, contemporary landscaping at the back.
Gardens

An Inviting Perennial Garden For A Prefabricated Melbourne Home

This Northcote home is enveloped by layers of perennial plants, flowers, and foliage that change beautifully with the seasons.
Gardens

Inside Jac Semmler's Abundant + Overflowing Frankston Garden

Jac Semmler's 400-square-metre garden has grown so much since we last visited, it's now spilling out onto the nature strip! See it here.
Gardens

Beci Orpin’s Meadow-Inspired Studio Garden (In Brunswick!)

Melbourne creative and designer Beci Orpin's inner-city studio features a surprisingly dreamy abundant garden, designed by Jimmy Sing.
Gardens

A Breathtaking Painterly Garden On The Mornington Peninsula

Ann-Maree Winter has created a symphony of colour and texture in her gently sloping perennial garden on the Mornington Peninsula.
Gardens

8 Beautiful Gardens Blooming With Inspiration From 2023

Whether it’s a small city courtyard or a rambling country estate, we simply can’t get enough of garden stories! Here are our most popular ones from 2023!
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 Look At Heide Modern's Enchanting Kitchen Garden Restoration

The romantic kitchen garden at Heide Museum of Modern Art has recently been reinvigorated, and it's now in full bloom!
Gardens

6 Mistakes Beginner Gardeners Should Avoid, With Julia Atkinson-Dunn

In this edited extract of 'A Guided Discovery of Gardening Knowledge: Creativity & Joy Unearthed', Julia Atkinson-Dunn shares the six mistakes she made as a beginner gardener, and the lessons she learnt from them!
A Day In The Life

A Day In The Life With Cookbook Author + Culinary Icon, Stephanie Alexander

As her 18th cookbook hits shelves and her Kitchen Garden Program continues to grow, Stephanie Alexander is inspiring the next-gen of cooks!
Gardens

How To Start A Vegetable Garden This Spring!

Even if you don't have a big garden, a thriving veggie patch is still within your capabilities — and it's easier than you think to get it started!
Sustainable Homes

A Sustainable Family Home Designed On The ‘Smallest Footprint Possible’

Perth landscape architects See Design Studio designed this 110-sq m house around its lush Mediterranean-inspired gardens!
Gardens

A Luminous + Leafy Garden Pavilion Designed To Elevate Indoor-Outdoor Flow

The owners of this Brisbane home engaged Arcke to design an outdoor room that would open their house to the garden, but distance them from the new development across the road.
Gardens

How To Create A Natural Australian Garden

Learn how to start planning your naturalistic dream garden with these tips from Phillip Withers and AB Bishop's new book, 'Naturescapes'.
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 Layered Front Garden That Gives Back To The Street

This newly-planted Melbourne garden is beloved by the owners and neighbours alike.
Gardens

How To Create A Dream-Like, Naturalistic Garden With The ‘New Perennial Movement’

The New Perennial movement is all about mimicking the look and feel of nature, using perennial plants that beautifully evolve with the seasons. Here's everything you need to know!
Gardens

A Harbourside Sydney Home’s Tropical + Textural Garden

Nestled into Bellevue Hill, this garden feels like a tropical resort, with a pool, palm trees and a ‘green roof’ (over the garage!) designed for entertaining.
Gardens

An Inviting Hawthorn Garden ‘Bursting’ With Foliage

With no front lawn and no front fence, this Melbourne home's garden is lush and welcoming, while the backyard serves as a private retreat.
Climate

Everything You Need To Know About Composting!

Whether you live in an inner-city apartment or on a suburban home, find out how to start your own compost and reduce your household waste.
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

An Enchantingly Layered Perennial Garden In Regional Victoria

Gardener and designer Tim Pilgrim has transformed a once flat block of land into a magical garden that blooms and evolves with the seasons.
Gardens

Connie Cao’s Thriving Productive Garden In Suburban Melbourne

How Connie Cao turned her suburban Melbourne backyard into a flourishing productive garden, and how you can do the same!
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

An Intriguing Coastal Garden, Filled With Natives + Surprises

MINT Pool + Landscape Design have woven garden spaces throughout this Jan Juc home, complete with sweeping views!
Gardens

A Coastal Garden That Revives The Native Landscape

House Revisited brings the natural landscape of Macmasters Beach on the NSW Central Coast, into a stunning residential property.
Gardens

A Boundless Garden Immersed In Native Bushland

A new coastal home on the Mornington Peninsula buried deep within a native grassy woodland, with stunning gardens by Plume Studio.
Gardens

A Lush Secret Garden, Inside A Converted Melbourne Church!

This surprising garden in East Melbourne has its own lagoon pool, a natural fish pond and 10m-tall walls covered in ivy.
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

This Lush Garden Channels An Italian Villa, In Melbourne's Eastern Suburbs!

The sprawling family garden of Tim and Sarah Lincoln in Melbourne's east.
Gardens

10 Glorious Gardens Blooming With Inspiration From 2022

From a clever courtyard in a converted warehouse, to a magical suburban garden with giant metallic mushrooms (!) these are the top ten gardens we featured in 2022!
Gardens

This Remarkable 8-Acre Garden Has Been A Labour Of Love For 40 Years

The owners of a farm in Melbourne's west have created something that rivals our best public parks, with 4000 trees and pink florals!
Shopping

An Eclectic + Colourful Indoor Plant Haven On Victoria’s Coast

Plant nursery Arizona Living in Torquay is filled with locally grown cacti, succulents and indoor plants, alongside vibrant homewares!
Gardens

A Magical, Layered Melbourne Garden - With Giant Metallic Mushrooms!

How artist Kate Ballis and photographer Tom Blachford created a whimsical suburban garden of 'secret rooms'.
Gardens

A Sculptural Cliffside Garden With Waterfront Views In Palm Beach

In Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Outcrop House's undulating garden spills out onto the hillside, perfectly framing ocean views.
Design Eye

Balancing Form + Function In Garden Design, With Peachy Green’s Frances Hale

Landscape designer Frances Hale of Peachy Green shares how outdoor furniture can turn garden spaces into useable living areas.
Gardens

A Sensitively Built Coastal Garden, Designed To Look ‘Untouched’

The Garden Social carefully designed a garden, built into waterfront sand dunes on NSW's South Coast, where the serene seascape beyond takes centre stage.
Gardens

A Melbourne Apartment’s Lacklustre Garden Turned ‘Sea Of Green'

Landscape designer Andrew Panton overhauled a 'struggling' ground-floor apartment garden into and evergreen outdoor space.
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 Thoughtful Garden Championing Nature In The Inner-City

Sam Cox Landscapes brings a sense of the Australian bush to this Fitzroy North home thanks to a clever mix of native plants and established trees.
Gardens

How This Young Photographer Transformed Her Rambling Coastal Garden In One Week!

With a little help from her friends, photographer Kate Shanasy transformed her jungle of a garden into an entertainer's coastal delight!
Gardens

A Thoughtful Native Garden Anchoring A ‘Floating’ Home In The Byron Hinterland

Explore the diverse and lush landscaping of Coolamon House, perched on ancient volcano crater with uninterrupted views to the ocean.
Suburban Garden

A Serene Courtyard Garden Inside A Spectacular Converted Bakery

This former warehouse turned dream home in Sydney hides a stunning seasonal courtyard by The Garden Social.
Gardens

A Hawthorn Home Enveloped In Dreamy, Layered Gardens

This new family home is brought to life with lush gardens – reminiscent of a ‘woody meadow’!
Creative People

Landscape Studio Ayus Botanical On Creating Calming + Enduring Gardens

The husband-and-wife team of Ayus Botanical share the thoughtful processes behind their lush residential and commercial projects!
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!
Suburban Garden

A Semi-Formal Bayside Garden That Blooms Year-Round

Overflowing foliage and formal hedging meet in this bayside Melbourne garden by Andrew Panton Design.
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