A garden for all seasons
Inspirational gardeners

A garden for all seasons

Linda Blencowe says gardening is an ever-unfolding adventure and an opportunity to hone her skills throughout each season.

The grounds of the Heide Museum of Modern Art include a healing garden.
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A garden for the senses

Jessamy Miller visits Heide Museum of Modern Art, with its rich cultural and plant history and many sensory and food gardens.

Landowners receive a weekly selection of fruit and vegies.
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Connecting through gardens

A social enterprise called Farm It Forward helps connect landowners with young people to grow food and community, writes Jacqueline Forster.

The garden at Charnwood consists of 45 individual plots.
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A growing community

This group of community gardens has been going for more than 50 years. Simon Webster asks what's their secret to success. 

Jensen enjoys his time in the Wayside Chapel rooftop garden.
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Gardening above the fray

The Wayside Chapel rooftop garden is an oasis above the busy city, providing a quiet haven for those who need it, writes Leanne Croker.

Robin checking 'Beauregard' snow pea crop.
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Saving seeds for our future

Penny Woodward talks with Peter Carlyon and Robin Koster-Carlyon about how they changed their organic farm into a thriving seed-growing enterprise.

Jian Liu's Melbourne garden is a productive space, teeming with life and colour.
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Gardening success in Melbourne

Jian Liu has gone from a Beijing concrete jungle to a lush Melbourne backyard, where she and her husband have created a wonderful food forest.

The Reconciliation Park Community Garden in Redfern.
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Growing a community garden

After five years of waiting and with high-rise developments closing in, residents living near a small park in Sydney’s inner-city suburb of Redfern are growing organic food and they have even convinced the council to make the whole space chemical-free. Malcolm McGuire writes.

Declan McGill and Melissa Charlick have 7.5 acres under production at Roly Poly Farm
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Farming for the future

There is a theme running through the work done by Declan McGill and Melissa Charlick at Roly Poly Farm: giving back – to their community and to the property that is now their livelihood.

In conversation with: Costa Georgiadis
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In conversation with: Costa Georgiadis

Costa Georgiadis' love of gardening is an absolute joy, so we thought we would share his thoughts about life, gardening and the future of the planet. The good part? There's definitely hope.

Children playing
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Garden of hope

Penny Woodward writes about an amazing Australian garden project for the children of the Gaza Strip.

Botanic garden beauty
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Botanic garden beauty

Visit the award-winning Australian Garden in the Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne, to watch it develop and grow, writes Penny Woodward.

Produce at Transition Farm
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Farming transformed

Penny Woodward visits a thriving farm that’s producing masses of food from what was once malnourished soil.

Gary and Angela Spotswood
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Out of the box

Converting to organics has given Gary and Angela Spotswood a renewed passion for farming, writes Kyie McGregor.

RBGV herbarium
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Gardens for the future?

PENNY WOODWARD says that you can have your say about these iconic gardens.