The Garden Clinic

Spring Pot Luck

22 September, 2024 | Words: Sandra Ross | Images: Brent Wilson

Sandra shares some of her favourite plant combinations to capture the exuberance of spring.

Time to say goodbye

21 September, 2024 | Words: Sandra Ross | Images: Michael McCoy, David Ferraby

Picture leaving behind a garden you've nurtured for nearly fifty years. New Zealand gardener Carolyn Ferraby is doing just that, leaving a legacy of beauty and dedication.

Visionary: Gardens and Landscapes for Our Future

21 July, 2024 | Claire Takac

In her latest book, acclaimed Australian photographer, Claire Takacs beautifully explores gardens and landscape design in the face of climate change. This Spanish garden is one of eighty featured.

03 June, 2024 | Words: Robin Powell | Images: Colin Barlow When Ross tour leader, Robin Powell took a group of travellers to visit Marian’s garden, Picardy, in West Gippsland, Victoria, it was a riot of flowers. Read More

Gardener on the Rise

03 June, 2024 | Libby Cameron

Brenton Roberts, winner of Better Homes and Gardens ‘Garden of the Year 2023’, enjoys creating beauty, and making his home look its best.

Back to Basics

11 March, 2024 | Graham Ross

Are you a new gardener? This is for you; tips for autumn planting success.

Permaculture on a plate

06 December, 2023 | Julie Bennett

A stunning kitchen garden on Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula is creating a different experience for its guests with a true estate-to-plate experience, writes Montalto’s produce manager, Julie Bennett.

Dutch Baroque Beauty

29 November, 2023 | Tammy Huynh

Experience one of Netherland’s most captivating palatial grounds, Het Loo, the former retreat of William of Orange during the Dutch Golden Age.

Finding the Right Shade

08 September, 2023 | Roger Fox

Are you neglecting the shady parts of your garden? Horticulturist Roger Fox shares how to to make them shine

Patch Perfect

06 June, 2023 | Words: Angie Thomas | Images: Shutterstock Growing your own food is one of the most rewarding and healthy things you can do. Read More

Redfern Oasis

07 June, 2023 | Words: Richard Unsworth | Images: Nicholas Watt

Creating a lush urban jungle in a small space sounds like a challenge, but garden designer and writer Richard Unsworth embraced the opportunity.

Squeeze The Day

05 May, 2023 | Angie Thomas

A pinch of sour and a dash of sweet, calamondin is a versatile and easy-to-grow member of the citrus family.

Small space: big ideas

16 January, 2023 |

Courtyard and balcony gardens are less forgiving than suburban gardens. A big garden can ramble a bit, drawing you past a bit of a dead patch with the lure of the something great glimpsed just around the corner. But in a small garden everything is on show, all the time.

The Art of Gardening: Chanticleer, Pennsylvania

07 December, 2022 | WORDS: SANDRA ROSS | IMAGES: CHANTICLEER Hailed as the most romantic, imaginative and exciting public garden in America, Chanticleer is a study of texture and form, where foliage trumps flower, where the gardeners lead the design, and where even the drinking fountains are sculptural. It is a garden of pleasure and learning. Read More

Britain's got talent!

24 August, 2022 | WORDS AND IMAGES: COLIN BARLOW

Immerse yourself in the floral extravaganza of springtime in the UK. Horticulturist and Ross Tour leader, Colin Barlow takes us for an armchair stroll through one of his favourite destinations.

Frensham - A relaxed Country Garden

24 August, 2022 | WORDS: MARGARET LONG | IMAGES: JULIET NICHOLAS

Located on the outskirts of Christchurch, ‘Frensham’ is considered one of New Zealand's finest gardens.

Spring bling

24 August, 2022 | WORDS: PAUL URQUHART | IMAGES; SHUTTERSTOCK

Bulbs are fleeting; annuals flame and die but shrubs can last for decades. Accomplished garden writer and Ross Tour leader, Paul Urquhart shares five of the best.

Japanese Garden Design Ideas

18 March, 2021 | Linda Ross

Japanese garden design offers some great ideas to gardeners. With a bit of imagination we can incorporate aspects and approaches that enhance our gardens without turning them Japanese

Five of the best: wisteria gardens

18 March, 2021 | Linda Ross

Here’s our pick of the best places in the world to be thrilled by the fragrance, form and sheer delight of wisteria.

Winterwood: One Man's Wonderland

01 June, 2022 | WORDS AND IMAGES: GRAHAM ROSS

Bushfire, snow, and wild weather hasn’t deterred this plantsman from creating a botanical masterpiece.

Connoisseur's Delight

08 March, 2022 | WORDS: SANDRA ROSS | IMAGES: WINDYRIDGE GARDENS

Despite its name, Windyridge sits comfortably in its terraced slope in the pretty historic village of Mount Wilson, just two hours from Sydney. With peonies, rhododendrons, waratahs, a dramatic waterfall and lake, it’s a showcase of magnificent cool climate plants.

Chantecler

02 March, 2022 | WORDS: SANDRA ROSS | IMAGES: JULIET ANNE NICHOLAS

Surrounded by dramatic snow-covered mountains and nestled into a sheltered Wakatipu Basin in Central Otago, near Queenstown in southern New Zealand, you’ll find Mike Henry’s garden, Chantecler.

Net Gains

22 November, 2021 | WORDS AND IMAGES: ANNE MARIE CRAINE Read More

La vie en rose

22 November, 2021 | WORDS AND IMAGES: WALTER AND KAY DUNCAN

Delight in the magic of Walter and Kay Duncan’s dreamy landscape, The Heritage Garden, in Clare Valley, South Australia.

Our forever garden

22 November, 2021 | WORDS: SANDRA ROSS, IMAGES: GRAHAM ROSS When two gardeners settle into a home and garden there could be fireworks. In our case, it’s been a joyful 35-year journey, which we hope will last forever. Read More

Festival of Flowers

22 November, 2021 | WORDS: GRAHAM ROSS, IMAGES: GRAHAM ROSS & SHUTTERSTOCK

After 40 glorious spring ‘Cherry Blossom’ and autumn tours to Japan, I realised there was so much more than this ephermal favourite. Wisteria, iris, azalea, and peony are all celebrated with bespoke festivals.

Historic Gem

21 October, 2021 | Words: Libby Cameron | Images: Neil Hendry

Anlaby Station, the oldest sheep station in South Australia, 85km north of Adelaide, is being given a well-deserved new lease on life.

Meet: Phillip Johnson

21 October, 2021 | Words: Graham Ross

The first and only Australian to win both a Gold Medal and Best in Show at the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show. And best of all, his 2013 award-winning garden is finally coming home.

Out of this World

21 October, 2021 | Words & images: Michael McCoy

They say all good things must come to an end. Oh but, what an end it is. It’s the final installment of Michael McCoy’s four-part travel series; he’s saved the best for last.

A garden for all seasons

21 October, 2021 | Words: Sandra Ross & Carolyn Dwyer | Images: Les and Elaine Musgrave In the Southern Highlands NSW, horticulturist and plantsman Les Musgrave, cleverly plays with nature’s shapes, textures, and colours to create a garden with year-round interest. Read More

Sunday’s garden: Growing Heide

18 March, 2021 | Lesley Harding & Kendrah Morgan

A new book tells the story of one of Australia’s most culturally significant gardens – that at Heide, the home, for fifty years, of John and Sunday Reed.

3 Ways to Jazz up your Front Garden

18 March, 2021 | Linda Ross

‘There’s nothing half so pleasant as coming home again’ wrote the American poet Margaret Elizabeth Sangster more than a century ago. Here are some great ideas for that perfect welcome home.

7 great ideas from Holland's Floriade

18 March, 2021 | Robin Powell

Once a decade the horticultural industry of Holland celebrates with a grand expo called Floriade. Each massive event is held in a different place and in 2012 it was carved out of a forest near Venlo, close to the Dutch border with Germany. Ideas? Well it had a few!

Art in the Garden

18 March, 2021 | Robin Powell

Even the driveway is part of the art in Scotland’s inspiring private sculpture park, Jupiter Artland.

Arylies

18 March, 2021 | Robin Powell

Over a lifetime Bev McConnell has created one of the world’s great gardens – and it’s just outside Auckland.

Australia's Best Rose Gardens

18 March, 2021 | Linda Ross, Robin Powell, Sandra Ross

Need to know where to find the best rose gardens in Australia? We've done the hard yards for you, and here they are.

Autumn in Linda's Garden

18 March, 2021 | Linda Ross

My garden on the coast about one and a half hours north of Sydney is a relaxed mix of coastal natives, blue bamboo, succulents and tough exotics.

Berrara

18 March, 2021 | Myles Baldwin

Myles Baldwin first saw the shingled walls of this house and its garden of, mixed planting and lawn leading to the beach, when he was holidaying with mates. He liked its style. Five years later one of his clients bought the house, which is at Berrara, on the south coast of NSW, near Sussex Inlet. Myles was asked to tweak the garden ‘a little’.

Better balcony gardens

18 March, 2021 | Paul Bangay

In this extract from his new book ‘Small Garden Design’, Paul Bangay shares his tips for that most difficult small garden - the balcony.

Bondi

18 March, 2021 | Linda Ross

Bondi is known for its beach, babes and bikinis, and not for its gardens. But this is where I find one of Australia’s most imaginative pocket-sized spaces.

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