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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!

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.

A Small Macedon Ranges Garden That Blossoms All Year Round

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

A Lush Inner City Garden Full Of Colour + Texture

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

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.

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.

A Layered Front Garden That Gives Back To The Street

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Modernised Melbourne Edwardian + Lush 'No Lawn' Garden!

A garden and architectural makeover of an Edwardian in Fitzroy North!

A Lush + Functional Queensland Courtyard

The Y3 Garden by Dan Young Landscape Architect unites the aesthetic and functional.

A Space-Saving Courtyard That Makes Something From Nothing

An inspiring residential courtyard transformation by Kathleen Murphy Landscape Design takes this space from drab to fab.

A Fragrant, Inner-City Garden Rejuvenates This Heritage Home

Landscape designer Nadia Gill creates two gardens with two very different personalities.

A Fresh Courtyard Garden In Paddington With Californian Vibes

A tired inner-Sydney courtyard gets a textured, elegant makeover.

A Tale Of Two Trees In This Lush Inner-City Garden

This verdant inner-city garden is a hotspot of diversity, nestled where you’d least expect it!

An Outdoor Oasis In Annandale

An ingenious outdoor entertaining area in Sydney, with designs by Eco Outdoor.

A Factory Rooftop Turned Lush Penthouse Garden

SJB director Adam Haddow’s stunning rooftop garden, designed by William Dangar of Dangar Barin Smith.

A Garden Of Native and Exotic Plants On The Mornington Peninsula

Merricks Beach garden, featuring natives, succulents and grasses - and no irrigation!

A Verdant Garden In Fitzroy North

An insanely lush inner city garden, created by landscape designer Amanda Oliver.

A Florist's Lush Inner City Garden

Florist Sean Cook's monotonal Sydney garden, by landscape designer Richard Unsworth.

David Whitworth

An anecdotal guide to hiding your 'ghetto garden'.

Owen Harris

A lush rooftop garden in inner city Fitzroy.

Anne Atkins

An inner city garden overflowing with greenery, brightly coloured annual plants, and fairies!

David Rosetzky and Sean Meilak

A lusciously leafy little garden in Brunswick, Victoria proves that size isn't everything.

Cat Alley

A brilliant example of urban communal gardening in inner city Sydney.

Sarah Nolan and Gavin Perrin

A tiny garden in Forest Lodge, Sydney, has been transformed by owners Sarah Nolan and Gavin Perrin from a mass of concrete and brick into a lush outdoor space filled with hidden treasures.

Mathieu Gallois

Ian McMaugh

Jonathan West and Shauna Greyerbiehl