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Prolific writer and Queensland Horticultural Media member, Kate Wall, is celebrating the launch of her second, self-published gardening book titled, ‘Earth Repair Gardening; The lazy gardener’s guide to saving the Earth’. This follows on from her bestselling 2019 release, ‘Working with Weeds: A practical guide to understanding, managing and using […]
The City Gardener by Richard Unsworth Richard Unsworth is the essence of a ‘City Gardener’. The owner of outdoor design store Garden Life in Sydney, Unsworth is also a garden designer and writer specialising in inner urban spaces. He puts these skills to good use in his second book, The […]
By Gabrielle Stannus As a designer and gardener with (quite a few) less years under my belt than Paul Bangay, I have always been somewhat intimidated by what I perceived as his intensely formal landscaping style. How does Bangay, one of Australia’s most well-known landscape designers, create such elegant gardens, […]
Gardening guide chalks up 135 years There’d hardly be a gardening household in Australia that doesn’t have a copy of the Yates Garden Guidesomewhere on a bookshelf. Australia’s best-selling gardening book, it is also one breaking records for longevity. The Yates Garden Guide was first published in 1895 and has […]
In 2014 Leonie was at the peak of her horticulture career with her successful Edible School Gardens program in Queensland. She published her first book Eat Your Garden, organic gardening for home & schools, and produced a DVD Edible School Gardens. But she became very ill and it would be […]
Book review by Toni Salter Urban Homesteads: how to live a more sustainable lifestyle It’s as old as the hills, yet it’s taken the world by storm and it’s become our saviour through Covid-19 lockdowns. It’s the resurgence of homesteading in households around the world. We’ve given it a number of […]
A good read The spring issue of Our Gardens, the quarterly magazine of Garden Clubs of Australia, has been released and editor Judy Horton says special thanks must go to HMAA members Faye Arcaro, George Hoad, Trevor Nottle, Libby Cameron and Fiona Ogilvie, who have all contributed to the issue. […]
Gardeners east of the Great Divide and North of the Macedon Ranges as far west as the wheat belt in WA will welcome SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GARDENS as a source of practical information about gardening in the temperate parts of Australia which experience shorter or longer cold, wet winters and long, […]
BOOK REVIEW The Botanical Art of William T Cooper By Wendy Cooper NLA Publishing – 324pp RRP: $AU65.00 As an ardent admirer of fine botanical art, being offered a review copy of this book was like manna from heaven to me! William T (Bill) Cooper was one of the world’s […]
BOOK REVIEW Spirit of the Garden By Trisha Dixon NLA Publishing – 200pp RRP: $AU65.00 Gardens and broader man-made and natural landscapes not only appeal to the senses of sight and sound but, as well known writer Trisha Dixon expresses in this latest work, it is also their feel or […]
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