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The Wrap Up: Hidden Design Festival 2015
24 July 2015 | Robin PowellHidden Design Festival offers a look at some of Sydney’s most exciting, professionally designed gardens. Here’s a look at a bit of what caught our eye this year.
Read MorePostcards from the Garden World
13 November 2019 | Ross Garden ToursViews, reports, and travel tips from the world of Ross Garden Tours
Read MoreSunday’s garden: Growing Heide
06 March 2015 | Lesley Harding & Kendrah MorganA 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.
Read More5 Best Garden Shows in the World
17 March 2015 | Linda RossFor jaw-dropping garden style and sheer floral beauty you can’t beat a walk around one of the world’s best garden shows. This is our pick of the top five, in no particular order.
Read More7 great ideas from Holland's Floriade
03 March 2015 | Robin PowellOnce 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!
Read MoreA Taste of Japan
06 March 2015 | Robin PowellThe cherry blossom is divine, but don't miss these other quintessential Japanese experiences, advises Robin Powell.
Read MoreAl-Ru Farm
24 February 2015 | Robin PowellRuth Irving’s garden at Al-Ru Farm in the Adelaide Hills is all romance and pretty pictures. Everywhere you look is a blossom-draped arbour, a flower-edged pathway or a swagged rose consorting with a frilly bearded iris in matching tones of antique lingerie.
Read MoreAmazon Lily, Victoria amazonica
13 February 2015 | Robin PowellA virtual tour to the places where the Amazon lily blooms reveals some incredible stories.
Read MoreAustralia's Best Rose Gardens
12 March 2015 | Linda Ross, Robin Powell, Sandra RossNeed to know where to find the best rose gardens in Australia? We've done the hard yards for you, and here they are.
Read MoreBellavista
03 March 2015 | Holly Kerr ForsythHolly Kerr Forsyth celebrates the landscape and people of country Australia in her new book ‘Country Gardens, Country Hospitality’. In this extract she introduces us to the garden of Anna and Don Carrazza, local food legends on the Murray.
Read MoreBetter balcony gardens
21 May 2019 | Paul BangayIn this extract from his new book ‘Small Garden Design’, Paul Bangay shares his tips for that most difficult small garden - the balcony.
Read MoreBonsai Art Museum
20 March 2015 | Carolyn DwyerIn April 2010, Ross Garden Tours was the first overseas tour group to visit the elegant new Bonsai Art Museum in the unique Omiya Bonsai district of Japan. Tour leader Carolyn Dwyer reports.
Read MoreBronte House
03 September 2016 | Carla PetitBronte 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.
Read MoreBuenos Aires
14 May 2015 | Graham RossGraham and Sandra were thrilled by the vibrancy and colour of Buenos Aires, where they have been researching a new tour itinerary. Graham shares some of their discoveries.
Read MoreChelsea 2015
12 November 2015 | Robin PowellAfter 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.
Read MoreChelsea magic
31 August 2018 | Robin PowellChelsea 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.
Read MoreChelsea: Graham Ross' Survival Tips
03 March 2015 | Graham RossTips to survive a day at Chelsea.
Read MoreChinoiserie
13 September 2017 | Robin PowellMost of us choose to garden where we live; Dominic Wong chose to live where he wanted to garden.
Read MoreCloudehill
18 March 2015 | Jeremy FrancisJeremy 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.
Read MoreCountry life
05 February 2016 | 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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Cruden Farm
26 February 2015 | Sandra RossSandra Ross fulfilled a long-held dream when she and a group of our travellers were given a private tour of Dame Elisabeth Murdoch’s serenely beautiful garden.
Read MoreCuttings from the Garden World
22 May 2020 | The Garden Clinic familyHere's what's happening in the garden world this winter.
Eryldene: The Professor and the Camellia
21 May 2020 | 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
21 May 2020 | Sandra RossPiet 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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Five of the best: rose gardens
13 November 2019 | Sandra RossDiscover five of the best gardens to admire the beauty of roses.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Chaumont-sur-Loire Garden Festival
28 March 2018 | Robin PowellThe Loire Valley is renowned as ‘France’s Garden’, and in summer it hosts an international design festival that imagines the future of gardening.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Chelsea Flower show
31 August 2018 | Robin PowellChelsea is the prize bloom of the world's garden shows, and the reputation is well-deserved. Here Robin Powell shares her observations on what has been another breath-taking Chelsea Flower Show.
Read MoreGarden Festival Planner: Floriade
23 August 2017 | Robin PowellIn spring the national capital is all about Floriade. Here’s how to add more gardens to its tulip beds and party atmosphere.
Read MoreGarden Festival Planner: Floriade Holland
20 May 2019 | Sandra RossIn 2022 this huge, once-in-a-decade festival will focus on inspiring ways for city-dwellers to connect with the beauty of plants and gardens.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Japan’s floral festivals
05 September 2018 | Linda RossOnce the cherry blossoms fall, Japan bursts into colour with azaleas, peonies and wisteria creating a crescendo of colour unknown to most international travellers - and not to be missed!
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Melbourne
19 December 2016 | Robin PowellMIFGS blooms in Melbourne in March. Here’s how to turn a day at the show into a real garden festival
Garden Festival Planner: Nambour
08 March 2017 | Robin PowellGarden lovers flock to Nambour in winter for their fill of new plants, gadgets and ideas. Here’s how to turn a day at the show into a real garden festival.
Read MoreGarden festival planner: Nelmac Garden Marlborough
30 May 2018 | Michael McCoyThe gates open on incredible private gardens in this New Zealand festival, which also offers workshops - Great Dixter’s Fergus Garrett is the keynote speaker this year - and a garden party at Wither Hills Winery.
Read MoreGarden Ideas from Appletern Garden Festival, Holland
26 February 2015 | Robin PowellVisiting Appletern is like having your favourite garden magazine come to life. Around every corner of this vast garden showcase in Holland is a new page offering great ideas for your own garden: design, plants, planting combinations, paving options, sculpture, furniture and more.
Read MoreGarden Road Trip South Coast
16 June 2015 | By Sandra RossWith verdant green dairy country on one side and pristine beaches on the other, the south coast of NSW is gorgeous country. Plan now to visit in spring, when open gardens add to the sights.
Read MoreGarden Road Trip: Adelaide
10 May 2016 | Robin Powell
Adelaide’s roses are a treat in both spring and in autumn, and there is plenty more to discover in a city that loves its gardens.
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Garden Road Trip: Mount Wilson
11 February 2015 | Robin PowellThe village of Mount Wilson in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney is famous for its cool climate gardens, which in spring are a picture! Our advice? Make a day of it!
Read MoreGarden Road Trip: Olinda
17 April 2015 | Robin PowellStands of giant mountain ash and lush tree ferns adorn even the roadsides around Olinda, in the Dandenong Ranges, just outside Melbourne. Landscape designer and local, Philip Johnson shared some favourite horticultural haunts.
Read MoreGarden Road Trip: Rydal
23 November 2016 | Robin Powell
Hosts of golden daffodils dance in the wind when the tiny village of Rydal, just east of Lithgow, celebrates the Daffodils at Rydal festival. Robin
Powell takes you there.
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Garden Road Trip: Singapore
11 February 2015 | Robin PowellThe Singapore stopover might once have been about shopping, but now it’s about gardens. Add these destinations to your itinerary.
Read MoreGreat Dixter
13 November 2019 | Robin PowellIs this old place England’s most exciting contemporary garden?
Read MoreGreat Ideas
08 July 2016 | Robin PowellWant some great garden ideas. Grab some tips and trends from the professionals who showed gardens in this year’s Hidden Design Festival.
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Great ideas from Country Victoria
13 June 2017 | Robin PowellWe found plenty of inspiration on our Ross Garden Tour of country Victoria last spring. Here are a few of our favourite ideas – all worth including in your own garden.
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