In the garden: Red Cow Farm

18 March, 2021  |  Ali Mentesh and Robin Powell

In 1990, Ali Mentesh stood in the bald paddocks of Red Cow Farm and dreamed of a canopy of trees, a woodland-edged lake, and garden rooms fragrant with roses. In making the dream reality Ali turned himself into a garden designer sought-after for his imagination, and his hands-on experience of plants and how best to grow them.

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In the garden: Retford Park

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell and Rick Shepherd

Rick Shepherd, head gardener at Bowral’s grand Retford Park, dishes the dirt on what goes on in the garden in spring.

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In the garden: Sea-changer

18 March, 2021  |  Peter Nixon and Robin Powell

Four years ago garden designer Peter Nixon traded in his inner-city Sydney courtyard for a big blank corner block on the Central Coast and turned it into this!

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Is Villa Gamberaia the most romantic garden in Italy?

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

We join a long line of world-weary travellers who have fallen for the charms of Villa Gamberaia hook, line and sinker.

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Italian Lakes

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Glamour and romance are the twin themes of a stay in Stressa. Robin Powell took a room with a view and was enchanted.

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Jaipur - The Pink City

18 March, 2021  |  Peter Whitehead

Bustle, colour, beauty and great stories: Peter Whitehead reveals some of the allure of Jaipur, and tells why he can’t wait to take Ross Garden tours first trip to India.

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Japan in Autumn

18 March, 2021  |  Graham Ross

Cherry blossom season might make all the headlines but Graham says that in autumn Japan glows with a gentle beauty.

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Japanese Gardens

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

We love Japanese gardens so much we visit twice a year: in spring to catch the fleeting magic of the cherry blossom season; and again in autumn when the maples and chrysanthemums are at their best. 

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La Vie En Rose

18 March, 2021  |  Marian Somes

The charms of French country living inspired Marian Somes to create her own version at her beautiful garden Picardy in the Gippsland hills.

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Lambley's Garden

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Lessons From a Master

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

10 top tips for better gardens from Fergus Garrett

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Longwood

18 March, 2021  |  Michael McCoy

Money isn't an essential ingredient of a great garden, but my, can’t it help! Michael McCoy reports on how the dollars show at the lavishly loved Longwood Gardens.

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Macquarie Island

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Hobart’s Botanic Gardens is home to an unusual glasshouse with a collection of plants from Australia’s sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island. Robin Powell wrapped up warm to collect stories from one of the wildest places on earth.

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Marqueyssac

18 March, 2021  |  Sandra Ross

When it comes to box, this iconic French garden thinks outside the square! No flowers, few trees, few paths, but amazing views – and more than 150,000 sculpted box.

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Matsue

18 March, 2021  |  Linda Ross

Flying into Matsue, on the shores of Lake Shinjii, the ground glows green with rice and buckwheat. The area is famous for its soba noodles, ancient samurai houses, moated castle - and a succession of cherry blossom, peonies, azaleas and wisteria through spring.

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Meet Anna van der Gardner

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Meet Anna van der Gardner

Resident (and gardener), Bronte House

The gardens at Bronte House have been an inspiration to Sydney gardners for decades.

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Meet Dave Gray: Head gardener, Everglades

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

For the last two years Dave Gray has been head gardener at Everglades, a National Trust property in Leura, designed and built through the 1930s by Paul Sorensen.

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Meet Jane Irwin: Landscape architect

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Meet Jane Irwin: Landscape architect. Jane Irwin’s exciting re-design of the Eastern Terrace gardens at NSW Government House is bound to influence the way we think about Sydney gardens.

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Meet Keith and Maureene Smith

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Cancer fundraisers and plant propagators

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Meet Pat and Bill Rhodin Tulip Tops gardeners

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Meet Pat and Bill Rhodin, Tulip Tops gardeners. They work hard all year to make this garden's spring display something memorable

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Meet Robert Price

18 March, 2021  |  Linda Ross

Meet: Bob Price, founder and curator, Mexico’s Vallarta Botanical Gardens. Bob Price plan was to conserve Mexico’s unique flora and birdlife and the Vallarta Botanical Gardens he founded to help achieve that were recently included on the list of Top Ten Public Gardens in America you should visit.

 

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Meet the Lindesay gardeners

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Every Thursday morning a group of garden lovers gathers in the beautiful grounds of Lindesay in Darling Point and gets to work. Here Robin Powell talks to the group about their passionate connection to this historic house and garden

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Meet Tiffany Bignold

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Meet Tiffany Bignold, Heritage rose lover and Parramatta Park gardener. The Rumsey Rose Garden in Parramatta Park is a quiet place in the city fragrant with the blooms of 203 heritage roses.

 

 

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Meet Tom Coward: Head gardener at Gravetye Manor

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Gravetye Manor is the garden of the influential English gardener, William Robinson. Robin Powell spoke to its current head gardener Tom Coward about its historical accuracy and modern excitement.

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Meet: Anita Rayner

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Meet Anita Rayner, Head gardener, Sydney Living Museums. The gardens at Vaucluse House are one of Sydney’s historic horticultural treasures. Anita Rayner fell in love with them at first sight; now she runs them.

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Meet: Geoff Duggan, landscape planning officer, The Australian Botanic Garden

18 March, 2021  |  Libby Cameron

A discussion with Geoff Duggan about his work creating native daisy meadows at the Australian Botanic Garden in Mount Annan.

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Meet: Ivy Singh, gentle warrior

18 March, 2021  |  Linda Ross

We recently enjoyed the very different Singapore experience of Bollywood Veggies, a ten-acre organic farm owned by Ivy Singh-Lim. Ivy is refreshingly outspoken – just check our her signage! – and named her farm for her Indian heritage and her love of singing and dancing. Linda Ross shared banana bread with the woman who calls herself Poison Ivy!

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Meet: Jeanne Villani, keen gardener and member of the Garden History Society

18 March, 2021  |  Libby Cameron

Jeanne talks about her love for her tropical garden.

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Meet: Karen Hall, garden creator

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Wychwood is the magical garden created by Karen Hall and Peter Cooper. Though they are moving on, the magic of the garden has been captured in Karen’s words and Peter’s photographs, packaged in a handsome new book.

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Meet: Liz Gledhill, owner of Waverley Nursery and Garden Design

18 March, 2021  |  Libby Cameron

Liz's nursery specialises in hardy shrubs, perennials and ornamental grasses. Libby catches up with her.

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Meet: Richard Barley, CEO, Open Gardens Australia

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

The mission of Open Gardens Australia is to promote the joys and benefits of gardens and gardening. Over 25 years garden-lovers have been inspired by what other gardeners have achieved, and more than $5 million has been raised for charity. There was more good news this year when Richard Barley received a prestigious international award. We asked him all about it.

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Melbourne's Flower Garden Show 2014

18 March, 2021  |  Linda Ross

We pick our favourite moments from Melbourne 2014.

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Merry Garth

18 March, 2021  |  Sandra Ross

The Mount Wilson garden of Libby and Keith Rainers is a treasure trove of miniature gems in an inspiring setting. Sandra Ross sets the scene in this beautiful Blue Mountain garden paradise

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Mickey's garden

18 March, 2021  |  Mickey Robertson

Mickey Robertson gardens at Glenmore House near Camden. Sounds like a scene out of Pride and Prejudice? Well yes, you do feel as though you've traveled back in time where women wear linen and the air smells clean. Winter, she says, is crisp mornings thawing to glorious blue-sky days. Early morning reveal traces of frost on cabbage and kale leaves; and sometimes, just sometimes, the paddocks blanketed in white. Evenings also have a rhythm all their own as woodsmoke trails through the valley. Here she shares glimpses of days in her winter garden.

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Monty Don's 'Great Gardens of Italy'

18 March, 2021  |  Sandra Ross

There is a pile of gardening books on my bedside table that entices me to crawl into bed after a bath and a cool day in the garden. On top is my garden diary where I make notes of ideas, planting schemes and interesting quotes. 

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Nest of the Feather Serpent

18 March, 2021  |  Linda Ross Linda finds a garden in Mexico that sparkles with surprise and joy. Read More

Oakwood

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Wonderfully eccentric, personal, witty and beautiful. The garden of sculptors, Fulko Cooper and Maureen Craig is both drawing board and artwork; a house, garden, studio and gallery space that inspires. Welcome to Oakwood.

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Old Wesleydale

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Deb and Scott Wilson make garden magic in Tasmania's stunning Meander Valley.

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Outback Bloom

18 March, 2021  |  Angus Stewart

The Australian outback is experiencing a one-in-a-lifetime explosion of exuberant growth and flowering. Birds are flocking to the newly drenched watercourses and brimming lakes, and so are plant lovers. Angus Stewart shares the thrill.

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Paris

18 March, 2021  |  Sandra Ross

One perfect day - Paris offers many options for a beautiful day, but for Sandra the perfect early summer’s day in Paris must include roses, thousands of them!

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