For Gardeners
To list or not to list?
Calling all gardeners to visit our Heronswood trial gardens and add your voice. Which heirloom variety would you choose?
Maximise your vegetable garden
Create a backyard ecosystem that starts with a healthy, life-giving soil to expand your harvest and tantalise your taste buds.
How to explore a garden
Creative design of steps, paths and terraces helps Cloudehill visitors comfortably navigate a hillside garden.
Vale Penelope Garnett
Clive honours the late Penny Garnett, co-creator of The Garden of St Erth.
Cucumber 'Lebanese Mini Muncher'
There’s no need to peel this classic smooth-skinned Mediterranean variety! Perfect for salads, pickling or tzatziki. Yields around 40-50 fruit per plant.
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For Gardens
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.
For Gardening
Gardening through the ages
Intergenerational garden education passes down plant knowledge, gardening skills and cultural practices to younger generations.
Soil is not a dirty word
Understanding the link between fertilisers, microbial activity and the nutrient content of the food we grow.
Our much-loved garden visitors
Ladybird beetles – the good, the bad and the beautiful!
Gardening next door
Don’t have space to garden? Why not explore the opportunities of growing food in a neighbour’s backyard.
The next chapter for The Diggers Club
Fiona reflects on the Diggers journey - approaching our 50th birthday and beyond.
Restoring our soils
Industrial farming erodes topsoil at alarming rates, relying on chemicals that damage ecosystems and food quality, making the Western diet highly unsustainable. In contrast, regenerative gardening restores soil health, recycles waste, and offers a sustainable, chemical-free solution to growing food.
