Colour Harmony: Painting Your Home to Match Your Garden

27 January, 2026  |  Julia Zaetta | Wattyl

Your home is the centrepiece of your landscape. Learn how to take colour inspiration from your garden to choose the perfect exterior paint palette. With Wattyl Solagard Ready To Go colours and expert tips, The Garden Clinic shows how to create a home and garden that work beautifully together.

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Outdoor entertaining at home

11 December, 2025  |  Shuttersotck, Luisa Brimble, Robin Powell, Hannah Tu and Kateryna Hliznitsova @ Unsplash

There’s no better place to entertain than in your own backyard– amidst flowers, herbs and the soft hum of summer evenings. Whether you’re hosting a relaxed lunch, a twilight get-together or just a few friends among the blooms, these tips will help you make the most of your garden’s magic this season. Follow these simple tips to style, refresh and enjoy your garden– making summer gatherings effortless!

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Colour me beautiful

09 October, 2025  |  Julia Zaetta | Wattyl

Your house is the most important feature in your garden — it sets the tone for everything around it. Choosing the right exterior paint colours is a powerful way to highlight its character and reflect your style.

 

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Spring Fever

23 September, 2025  |  Words: Julia Zaetta | Images: Shutterstock, Stock Photo & Garden Clinic

Spring is the season of possibility – gardens are bursting with colour, fragrance and fresh growth. We’ve gathered ideas from beautiful outdoor spaces brimming with seasonal magic, ready for you to bring into your own garden. From creative pot displays and striking plant pairings to clever ways of filling bare spots.

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It's all in the small ideas

03 July, 2025  |  Images: Shutterstock | Unsplash (Rnady Fath)

Bringing single notions together are what create a gorgeous outdoor living space. So choose from here those you love, and add them to your garden.

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Small space, big impact

11 March, 2025  |  Tammy Huynh

Feeling limited by your space? Here are three innovative garden designs from last year's Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show that will inspire you to rethink your small outdoor area and unlock its potential.

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Deep, moving and Magnificent

13 February, 2025  |  Brendan Moar Discover Bhutan's untouched beauty in the Himalayas, where ancient traditions and serene landscapes offer travellers a truly unique escape. Read More

Basket Case

07 September, 2023  |  Angie Thomas

Add a new dimension to your outdoor spaces with hanging baskets.

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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.

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Magnolia Magic

31 May, 2023  |  Words: Graham Ross | Images: Tesselaar

With their elegant blooms and regal appearance, magnolias are considered the aristocrats of the garden. Here, Graham explores new varieties that are worthy of a place in your garden.

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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

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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.

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Meet: Craig Scott

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Tasmania

09 March, 2022  |  WORDS: LIBBY CAMERON

Tasmania has more than its fair share of fine gardens. Libby Cameron takes us for an armchair ride.

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Award-winning Azaleas

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​Postcards from the Garden World

18 March, 2021  |  Ross Garden Tours

Views, reports, and travel tips from the world of Ross Garden Tours

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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.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Blooms and Brushstrokes

18 March, 2021  |  Penelope Curtin

In their floral history of Australian art, mother and daughter team Peneloep and Tansy Curtin uncover the stories behind some of our favourite floral artworks.

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Book review: Capturing Flora

18 March, 2021  |  Linda Ross

The West Australian beauty exploding from the cover of Capturing Flora is Eucalyptus macrocarpa. The illustration is by Walter Fitch for a 1947 edition of Curtis' Botanical Magazine. Fitch used as his model a plant that had been grown from seed by the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, William Hooker.

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Bronte House

18 March, 2021  |  Carla Petit

Bronte House does not open to the public often. So when the opportunity arises gardeners line up to catch a glimpse of this Sydney treasure. Catch Sandra Ross there at the Spring Open Day, September 18 2016. Carla Petit has been looking after the garden for four years, continuing a tradition of highly skilled gardeners who have cared for this histric house and garden. Here she tell us what's happening.

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Chelsea 2015

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

After her first trip to the Chelsea Flower Show Robin Powell gave us her impressions. It was a show that reminded us of the beauty of nature barely gardened, and of gardens tended intensively.

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Chelsea magic

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Chelsea is a magical garden world as full of dreams and emotion as it of of sheer hard work and skill. We took three groups on Opening Day this year and asked the tour leaders to tell us what moved them most.

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Chinoiserie

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Most of us choose to garden where we live; Dominic Wong chose to live where he wanted to garden.

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Clever

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Robin Powell sifts through her ideas file, drawn from a year of garden visiting, to find garden inspirations, both practical and whimsical. Aren’t some people clever!

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Cloudehill

18 March, 2021  |  Jeremy Francis

Jeremy Francis tells the story of his magnificent garden in ‘Cloudehill: A year in the garden’. In this extract he describes how a garden inspired by the golden days of Edwardian Arts and Crafts Design began to take shape in the rich moist soils of the Dandenong Ranges.

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Cotswold Cottage Style

18 March, 2021  |  Michael McCoy

Michael McCoy says the charm of its private gardens bolsters Bibury’s reputation as the most beautiful village in all England

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Country life

18 March, 2021  |  Victoria Summerley

A romantically pretty country garden, on the edge of the city. That’s the dream of the owners of The Old Vicarage in London’s Petersham. Find out how they made it a reality in this excerpt from Great Gardens of London.

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Courtyard Makeover

18 March, 2021  |  Linda Ross

This courtyard makeover matches the style of a Parisian café with the colours of rural France to create a charming space. Linda Ross tells how the space translated blah to ooh la la!

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Creating Inspiring Gardens

18 March, 2021  |  Michael McCoy

Michael McCoy says a garden shouldn’t just look good, but feel good. Creating it is simple: make a great space, then decorate it. Could it be that easy?

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Cuttings from the Garden World

18 March, 2021  |  Graham Ross

Welcome to spring. Here's Graham's cuttings from the garden world.

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Delicious: Lentil’s summer breakfast bowl

18 March, 2021  |  Lentil Purbrick

Breakfast eggs get a super-fresh makeover in this dish from ‘The Village’ by Matt and Lentil from Grown and Gathered.

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Dreaming of flowers

18 March, 2021  |  Brdiget Elworthy and Henrietta Courtauld

Imagine this: you and a friend grow cut flowers on an old Oxfordshire estate and in your spare time restore and design walled gardens. Welcome to the world of Henrietta Courtauld and Bridget Elworthy, aka The Land Gardeners. Meet them in this extract from their new book The Land Gardeners: Cut Flowers.

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Drummond

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell

Drummond Castle’s formal gardens, based on the flag of Scotland and the family’s own standard, are justly famous and surprisingly fun.

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Edibles everywhere

18 March, 2021  |  Robin Powell Delicious ideas seen on our travels this year Read More

Eryldene: The Professor and the Camellia

18 March, 2021  |  Jane Garling

Jane Garling explains why E.G. Waterhouse had such a massive influence on Australian gardens.

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Five of the Best: Oudolf gardens

18 March, 2021  |  Sandra Ross

Piet Oudolf has changed the way we think about gardens. His planting designs of perennials and grasses are romantic, exciting, enriching and inspiring. These are some of our favourites.

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