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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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

A Romantic + Productive Eltham Front Garden

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

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!

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.

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!

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!

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 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!

How To Start A Productive Garden TODAY!

Three experts on how to get started, what to plant in small spaces, and how long it will take to start seeing results!

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A Suburban Backyard Turned Thriving Permaculture Garden

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

Will Studd's Sub-Tropical Wonderland In Byron Bay

The cheese mogul takes us through his plant paradise.

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The Brilliant Initiative Nurturing Peace + Prosperity At Victoria's Government House

The Governor of Victoria, Linda Dessau AC, takes us through her ‘Peace and Prosperity Kitchen Garden' initiative.

TDF Talks @Mercedes me

Paul West On Why It’s More Important Than Ever To Grow Your Own Food

The urban farming advocate shares three simple steps to livin' the good life, at CERES' awesome market garden.

Heronswood House + Garden Celebrates A Milestone

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

A Wild and Productive Healesville Garden

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

Grow Your Own Seedlings

Matt and Lentil Purbrick of Grown & Gathered share their top tips for growing seedlings from scratch.

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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.

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Erica Wagner and Craig Smith

A lush, productive suburban garden in West Brunswick.

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The Sederof Family

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

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Horst Schoeps

A magical Melbourne garden, comprising landscaped lawns, lovingly nurtured vegetable gardens, grape vines, a huge pool and pond system complete with rainbow trout, a rambling orchard, and chickens!

Larry and Mickey Robertson · Glenmore House

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.