Garden DesignFest is back!  Cancelled in 2020 and 2021 because of COVID, this year’s event in November 2022 will feature up to 40 professionally designed private gardens open for visitors to enjoy. Garden DesignFest will be held over two weekends – 12 and 13 November (Metropolitan Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula) and 19 and 20 November (Ballarat, Euroa and Macedon Ranges).  The gardens ..read more

 After two years of cancellations because of COVID, organisers are delighted that the Leura Gardens Festival will be returning in 2022. The first Leura Gardens Festival was held in 1965 and since then the festival has grown to be one of the Mountains’ most loved events, attracting visitors from Australia and overseas. It's a labor of love as each year more than 400 volunteers support ..read more

  Armeria 'Dreamland', of the 'Dreameria®' collection developed by Australian plant breeding house PGA InnovaBred® has won silver in the RHS Plant of the Year award. The plant was selected for its garden excellence, beautiful long-flowering floral displays, as well as its breeding story.     For the judges it was challenging deciding the winner, which came d ..read more

Best time to visit Canberra is during autumn to enjoy the beautiful tree colouration of yellow, orange and vivid red. During autumn days the temperature drops, day length (duration of daylight) shortens and thus the change of the colours of the leaves and trees make it magnificent to enjoy autumn, especially around Lake Burley Griffin. [caption id="attachment_72104" w ..read more

Magic Lies Outside is the fitting theme for the 2021 edition of the International Garden Festival, Grand-Métis, Canada.  Five new projects from Canada, the United States, France and Sweden have been selected from 160 entries to display in the existing gardens. This year’s festival strives to bring hope, to inspire creativity, and to brighten up the world as we struggle to make it throug ..read more

A little-known native rainforest tree could be about to become big news. The Macleay laurel, Anopterus macleayanus, is a small rainforest tree endemic to South East Queensland and Northern New South Wales. So far it has not attracted the attention of the horticulture industry, although it is an easy to grow native that works well in container culture and as an indoor plant. It is however attractin ..read more

Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne has received a $3.3 million grant from the Regional Tourism Investment Fund – Stimulus Round to develop eco-tourism improvements. The funding will establish the Gardens as the premier eco-tourism attraction in the south-east corridor through wildlife protection initiatives, improved entrances and upgrades to nature play and hospitality facilities. &nbsp ..read more

Ever wanted to name a rose?  Then this is your chance! Rosarians around the world are invited to invent a suitable name for the Australian-bred rose selected as the official Convention rose to be promoted at the 19th WFRS World Rose Convention in Adelaide. The 2022 Convention coined, ‘Celebration ‘22’, will be a massive celebration of all things roses! From October 27 to November 3, 2 ..read more

In the case of Cascades water garden, at Crafers in South Australia it is the water that goes round and round, all 750,000 litres of it most of which is held in hidden reservoirs while at any one time about 150,000 litres are visible in the pools, ponds, waterfalls and cascades of the garden itself. Described best as a constructed billabong the garden is mainly water with plantings of nativ ..read more

A coffee table book is a coffee table book is a coffee table book; a paraphrase of a well-known circular poem by Gertrude Stein; the rose and the coffee table book are ubiquitous in every publishers repertoire but marked by great diversity. Christine McCabe’s new book covers much new ground in her review of Adelaide Hills gardens as evolutionary melting pots. Unlike similar books f ..read more