A woman in a green top and blue jeans tends a garden

Seeds to sow this summer

Find the best seeds to plant, based on your location.

Dirt in both hands

Dear Diggers

The latest from our members.

A compost heap with worms

Food gardening in focus

Heronswood’s new trial beds and water-wise summer garden benefit from our ‘no-turn’ system of composting.

A flowering border at Cloudehill

Pruning the Yokohama maples

Artfully raising the canopy of our ever-expanding feature maples at Cloudehill.

A blossoming perennial border at The Garden of St Erth

The season of abundance

Summer comes alive at The Garden of St Erth, where colourful borders and heirloom vegetables flourish under the sun.

Amazon lily on the pond at Giardini La Mortella.

Inspiration for Australian gardeners from Italy

Two unique gardens off the coast of Naples offer climate matched options for our coastal gardeners.

A grassy hill with some cows and a wind turbine.

The winds of debate

Following lively correspondence in our recent Dear Diggers about wind farms, we asked an energy expert to respond to the issues raised. 

School students sit in a flourishing garden

A growing community of young community growers

Somers School Camp on the Mornington Peninsula is a beneficiary of The Diggers Foundation’s ‘Seed the Future’ program.

Te Henui Cemetery

A garden plot with a difference

Te Henui Cemetery in New Zealand is a community treasure – a beautiful life-affirming garden with lots of reading material! 

A flowering perennial garden

Gardening with AI

Who can we trust and what is the impact of artificial intelligence generated gardening content and automated horticulture? 

Lorelie holds a large bunch of flowers, standing in a field of dahlias

The ultimate cut flower offering

Growing dahlias through the seasons at Florelie flower farm

Delphinium 'Blue Senstation'

From the cover: Delphinium 'Blue Sensation'

Learn more about the stunning Delphinium elatum that adorns our magazine cover.

Penny plants a new tree

One garden at a time

At times the magnitude of the climate and environmental crisis we face can seem overwhelming, but Julian offers some reassurance.