Heronswood at sunrise

Exclusive Diggers Club Spring Garden Tour

All the details of our behind-the-scenes tour with Botanica

Julian leads a couple on a garden tour

Educating gardeners

Gardening Australia, Diggers and our members combine to lead gardening education and grow our knowledge.

A meadow of bluebells

Grassy meadows intermingled with bulbs

Rooted in historical land management practices, Cloudehill’s grassy bulb meadows are evolving into rich, biodiverse landscapes.

St Erth

Winter dormancy isn’t always downtime

It’s the season to review and renew your garden, including pruning established fruit trees.

Heronswood Kitchen Garden

Multifaceted cover crops for spring sowing success

A layered approach to cultivating soil health, beauty and seasonal abundance.

Handmade crafts

From garden to studio

The ultimate sustainable craft of transforming plant material into fibre art.

A pile of assorted radishes

The radish revolution

A humble root vegetable that asks for nothing yet gives grandly.

A child holding vegetables

The solution under our feet

Sometimes the simplest solutions hide in plain sight. How buried roots and dormant seeds sparked extraordinary landscape and livelihood transformation. 

White cedar tree

Planting the winds of change

How GUST (Grow Urban Shade Trees) is helping Woy Woy Peninsula residents grow a greener canopy.

A pile of eggplants, capsicums and tomatoes

A colourful summer bounty begins in winter

Get a head start on a rainbow harvest of tomatoes, capsicums, chillies and eggplants.

A French garden

Lessons to learn from French gardeners

With Australian conditions more akin to southern France than England, the French model for resilient gardens can help us succeed.

A collection of medicinal herbs

Gardens are the best medicine

Growing medicinal plants for natural remedies supports both our wellbeing and the wider garden itself.

Simon Rickard's garden

Beyond natives vs exotics

Why great gardens transcend plant origin and focus on what thrives, flowers and delights all year round.

Hugo grins in his vegie patch

Meet the next generation taking root

On a picturesque farm in the rolling hills of Doreen, 10-year-old Diggers member Hugo has carved out a vegie garden of his own.

A collection of fresh produce

Food security begins at home

As the climate crisis deepens and geopolitical tensions rise, it is certainly time for a rethink on the origin of our food supply.