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From habitat gardens to productive patches, creative nooks to calming spaces, formal design to wild meadows… there was endless botanical inspiration for visitors to take home and apply to their own gardens. These were some of the highlights.

WE THE WILD
DESIGNER Matt York, above, Ratio Consultants


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Their mission? To create a compact 5m x 4m design suitable for a balcony or small courtyard, while working to a budget of $8000 and ensuring at least 50 per cent of the garden is dedicated to plants.

BENEATH THE CANOPY
DESIGNER Megan Griffey, Holmesglen TAFE

Inspired by the leafy courtyards and shaded corners she’d ...


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It’s a place for home gardeners to explore and swoon over gorgeous plants and design ideas, and it’s an opportunity for designers to express big-picture concepts and demonstrate innovative thinking. Here’s a snapshot of the ways in which plants and landscape design are being used to adapt to climate change, build a connection with nature, and create restorative spaces.

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Replenishing your soil regularly is the single most important thing you can do as a vegie grower. When you commit to this routine, you are rewarded with fertile, living soil that produces bountiful harvests of organic vegetables packed with the nutrients that make our bodies thrive.
The best thing about the process is it doesn’t have to be backbreaking work. In fact, the...


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On a quiet suburban street in Rockdale in Sydney’s south, on Bidjigal land, lives a thriving, chaotic collection of greenery. Variegated monsteras and large philodendrons climb moss poles, alocasias, ferns and begonias crowd in trays, while rhipsalis and lipstick plants hang like chandeliers, and hoyas weave through it all, forming a living tapestry. This glorious tangle belo...


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