Fifteen years of Diggers Adelaide
This October marks 15 years since The Diggers Club opened its garden shop within the Adelaide Botanic Garden
Help secure Australia’s pollinators
Complete the Wheen Bee Foundation’s pollination survey and play your part in protecting the insects that keep our gardens and ecosystems flourishing.
Countering compaction in clay soil
The Garden of St Erth’s original impoverished rubble provides a successful case study on the gardener’s ability to transform the soil.
Hedges and screens for year-round structure
Cloudehill’s favourite slow-growing options for long-term success in defining garden spaces.
Complementary and companion plants
The garden at Heronswood blends site-specific planting design with a palette of companion plants to ensure a cohesive and successful garden.
Small gardens, big possibilities
This year’s winner of the Balcony Gardens Category at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show shares her secrets for success in small spaces.
Perfecting a perennial border
Di Johnson’s Moorooduc garden reflects a lifetime of expressive planting and garden artistry.
Grey to Green project
Plant communities designed to weather a changing climate have transformed a grey urban streetscape into a colourful, biodiverse yet minimal maintenance environment.
The garden to gut connection
Rebecca Edwards is a qualified naturopath who is fascinated by the connection between human health and the natural world. With more than 18 years’ experience researching and educating on all aspects of complementary and integrative health, Rebecca generously shared her knowledge and insights on the role of a healthy gut microbiome.
Diggers Garden School at Heronswood
Generous funding from the Sunshine Foundation is helping Diggers create an inspiring new learning experience on the Mornington Peninsula.
A landmark achievement for the foundation
DGR status marks an exciting new chapter in empowering lifelong change through education, preservation and our gardening community.
Many cultures vs monocultures
The exuberance of a spring garden awakening reminds us that the greatest strength of nature lies not in uniformity, but in diversity.
Help us build a living plant library
A new living collection dedicated to preservation, education, biodiversity and Australia’s gardening future.
Exclusive Diggers Club Spring Garden Tour
All the details of our behind-the-scenes tour with Botanica
Grassy meadows intermingled with bulbs
Rooted in historical land management practices, Cloudehill’s grassy bulb meadows are evolving into rich, biodiverse landscapes.
Winter dormancy isn’t always downtime
It’s the season to review and renew your garden, including pruning established fruit trees.
Multifaceted cover crops for spring sowing success
A layered approach to cultivating soil health, beauty and seasonal abundance.
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.
Beyond natives vs exotics
Why great gardens transcend plant origin and focus on what thrives, flowers and delights all year round.
A memory in bloom
Val Jackson: The Nook
Olinda, Dandenong Ranges, Victoria.
The dry garden at St Erth
Selecting a palate of plants that thrive in the local conditions is the key to success for this beautiful and resilient garden.
The Cloudehill borders after 33 years
Trialling, tweaking and tending our ever-evolving borders.
Heronswood’s reinstated kitchen garden
A labour of love to re-establish our working kitchen garden brings beauty and bounty.
Werribee Park Heritage Orchard is more than an orchard
It’s a story still being written – with roots in the past and branches reaching forward.
Falling in love with frogs
Australia’s frog species are in trouble but gardeners are key in helping them thrive in frog-friendly spaces at home.
Dumfries House, Scotland
A noble gesture that saved a garden and grew opportunities for the community beyond.
A new gardening year
And an exciting RHS endorsement!
Food gardening in focus
Heronswood’s new trial beds and water-wise summer garden benefit from our ‘no-turn’ system of composting.
Pruning the Yokohama maples
Artfully raising the canopy of our ever-expanding feature maples at Cloudehill.
The season of abundance
Summer comes alive at The Garden of St Erth, where colourful borders and heirloom vegetables flourish under the sun.
Inspiration for Australian gardeners from Italy
Two unique gardens off the coast of Naples offer climate matched options for our coastal gardeners.
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!
The ultimate cut flower offering
Growing dahlias through the seasons at Florelie flower farm
From the cover: Delphinium 'Blue Sensation'
Learn more about the stunning Delphinium elatum that adorns our magazine cover.
Trail Blazeys since 1978
Clive reflects on The Diggers Club's nearly 50-year history.
Cultivating nature’s wisdom
Practising biomimicry in the garden and learning from nature’s processes to inspire solutions for design, engineering and architecture.
Rhythm, repetition and natural cycles
Naturalistic planting in an Australian context. Tim Pilgrim’s new book shares his vision for a style of gardening that is both wild and controlled.
Less is more
Downsizing to a smaller property helped Natasha Morgan upsize the time available for growing food, flowers and family.