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Book Review A New Leaf by Pip McCormac and Jennifer Haslam Hardie Grant $60 I don’t think I’ve ever written a scathing review of a garden book – my usual approach is to say nothing if I don’t have something nice, or at least neutral, to say. Presumably most HMA […]
The Flight of the Budgerigar – An Illustrated History Penny Olsen NLA Publishing – 272pp RRP: $AU 49.99 … such is the story of a little Australian bird which left Australia unhonored and unsung to return years afterwards to the land of its origin decked out in a coat […]
Dan Austin’s new release offers a remarkable botanical journey through some of Earth’s most exotic locations in a celebration of photography, plants, and people. Exploring floral terrain from truly remote tribal villages to the world’s most populous cities, this is a book for anyone with an interest in the wonders […]
If you enjoy audio books extend your listening to embrace some gardening-related titles. UK magazine Gardens Illustrated has just released its top listening list, which includes Monty Don’s book Down to Earth along with first-time author and plant scientist Merlin Sheldrake’s book Entangled Life, which embraces the world of fungi. […]
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 […]
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