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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 Victorian Home's Whimsical + Winding Front Garden

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

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

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

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 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.
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

A Layered Front Garden That Gives Back To The Street

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

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

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

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!
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 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 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.
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’!
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.
Creative People

Creating Original, Ever-Changing Gardens With Kep Horticulture’s Andy Kepitis

Kep Horticulture founder Andy Kepitis talks how to create dynamic gardens, and his aversion to 'certain' plant palettes!
Gardens

A Hidden Flower Garden In Suburban Melbourne

From her Ivanhoe home Petrina Burrill has created a sustainable micro flower farm.
Gardens

A Beautiful New Life For A Generous Family Garden

The Haberfield Garden by Fieldwork Associates unites multiple green zones under a canopy of excitement + abundance!
Gardens

A Modernist Front Garden On Sydney’s North Shore

In an extract from his new book 'The City Gardener', Richard Unsworth shares this mid-century modern inspired garden in Castle Cove.
Gardens

A Lush + Functional Queensland Courtyard

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

A Mediterranean Oasis In The Middle Of Sydney

With a tropical courtyard and sandstone cabana cave, this landscape designer's garden is like a personal Greek island!
Gardens

Three Trees + A Pool - The Love Story Of A Wild-Looking, Natural Garden

Mcnuttndorff Landscapes tamed this rambling Fairfield garden around a new pool and three majestic eucalypts!
Gardens

An Amazingly Abundant Lawn-Free Garden

A meadow-style planting palette brings beauty and wilderness to this functional family backyard!
Gardens

A Slice Of Primeval Paradise In Bronte

Situated on a steep site in a blustery coastal location, this stunning garden in Sydney is both soft, and tough.
Gardens

A Cultivated Wilderness In Inner Suburban Melbourne

Legendary landscape designer Phillip Withers completes a three-tiered garden in Toorak.
Gardens

A Magical Family Garden As Productive As It Is Pretty

The lush garden of self-taught gardener Anastasia Elias - created from scratch in under two years!
Gardens

A Slow And Thoughtful Garden, Designed With Functionality In Mind

Landscape architect Hugh Burnett and Ballast Landscape builders work closely with the long-time owners of this Sydney property to create a symphonic family garden.
Gardens

A Super Swish Suburban Front Garden

Bethany Williamson Landscape Architecture subverts the traditional expectations of a suburban garden project... by transforming the front yard!
Gardens

A Sensitive Update For This Grand, 100-Year-Old Garden in Sydney

Numerous landscape designers have tended to this Mosman property over the past century.
Suburban Garden

An Equally Functional + Lush Suburban Garden Makeover

The stunning garden of landscape designer Julian Bombardiere, in Kings Langley, NSW.
Gardens

A Powerful Landscape Of Earth And Sea

Landscape architect Jane Irwin creates a surprising yet understated clifftop garden in Sydney.
Gardens

A Luscious Inner Suburban Garden With An Enormous Ethereal Lagoon (In Northcote!)

Sam Cox Landscape creates a harmonious green addition (and a jaw-dropping poo!l) to this rolling inner suburban block.
Gardens

A Swedish-Inspired Garden In Suburban Melbourne!

Landscape designer Penny Starr creates a garden for all seasons!
Gardens

A Cascading, Compact Garden That Envelopes This Sydney Home

Greenery spills in from every angle in this suburban garden designed by Bell Landscapes!
Gardens

A Landscape Designer’s Relaxed Family Garden in Elwood

Kate Patterson of KPLA took her time designing her own backyard, but it was worth the wait!
Gardens

A Lush, Layered Family Garden in Hawthorn

Kate Seddon Landscape Design update a Hawthorn backyard, with spectacular results.
Gardens

A Majestic Restoration For A Legendary Heritage Garden

This 150-year-old garden in Deepdene is rumoured to have been designed by the creator of the Royal Botanic Gardens!
Gardens

A Suburban Backyard Transformed Into A Lush Garden Retreat

Mud Office complements a modern Ivanhoe extension with this magnificent green retreat!
Gardens

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!
Gardens

A Self-Confessed Crazy Plant Lady's Suburban Garden

Jac Semmler of The Digger's Club shows us around her wild, wacky and wonderful home garden in Frankston.
Gardens

A Miraculous Floating Garden + Pool in Brisbane

A contemporary, low-maintenance interpretation of the Australian suburban dream!
Gardens

A Native Garden Made With Recycled Renovation Debris

A Sydney garden that maximises drought tolerant plant life, and inventive upcycling!
Gardens

A Layered Garden, Designed Around A Liquidambar Tree

A richly layered garden in Camberwell, tailored to a Victorian home with a contemporary extension.
Vegetable Garden

A Suburban Backyard Turned Thriving Permaculture Garden

Ben Shaw's permaculture garden is an edible paradise in the heart of suburbia.
Gardens

A Japanese Inspired Green Garden Dream

Spirit Level Designs combine minimalist design and maximum luxury in this Bellevue Hill garden.
Gardens

An Elegant Sydney Garden, Designed in Two Stages

A family garden in Mosman featuring stunning sandstone and beautiful plantings typical of Sydney's North Shore.
Gardens

A Robust Rooftop Garden In Rozelle

Klaus and Anne Schindhelm share their expansive apartment 'backyard' with spectacular water views!
Gardens

An Outdoor Oasis In Annandale

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

A Factory Rooftop Turned Lush Penthouse Garden

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

A Spectacular Riverside Garden in Melbourne

A tour through a volcano-inspired garden on the banks of the Yarra River.
Suburban Garden

An Exceptional Heritage Garden In Sydney

The current custodians of the heritage Bronte House and Garden take us through the breathtaking grounds.
Suburban Garden

The Garden Of A Lifetime

The gentle transformation of a Brisbane garden that's been held within one family for three generations.
Suburban Garden

A Perfect Family Garden In Camberwell

An outdoor oasis, designed by Ian Barker in Camberwell.
Gardens

Bill Henson's Post-Industrial Walled Garden

Questions of beauty, mystery, order and chaos abound in the acclaimed artist's Melbourne garden.
Gardens

An Industrial Wasteland Turned Plant Paradise

A tour of Andrea Fitzpatrick's lush city plant shop, Botanick Brisbane.
Gardens

The Bondi Garden Of Landscape Designer William Dangar

The well-known landscape designer's abundant Sydney garden - encased in lush foliage!
Suburban Garden

Wriedt Garden in Eaglemont

A 25 year collaboration between garden designer Sharon Harris and her client.
Gardens

A Lush Heritage Garden in Sydney

A re-invigorated heritage garden in Sydney.
Suburban Garden

Robyn Prent

An abundant oasis of greenery in Moonee Ponds.
Vegetable Garden

Erica Wagner and Craig Smith

A lush, productive suburban garden in West Brunswick.
Gardens

Grand Bickleigh Vale

A garden designed in the 1920s by one of Australia's most renowned garden designers, Edna Walling.
Gardens

Michael Bates and Family

A quintessentially 'Sydney School' garden, by landscape designer Michael Bates.
Vegetable Garden

The Sederof Family

A small sixty-square-metres garden in East Brunswick growing big things.
Suburban Garden

Michael Cooke

We visit a 10 acre garden in Central Mangrove, in the hills behind the NSW Central Coast.
Gardens

Ann Sherry and Michael Hogan

An extraordinary garden, in one of Sydney's most incredible residential properties.
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