Are your house plants looking blue, not green? Here are some fantastic (and playful) plant care tips from Dan Cusack at houseplant online store, Housemates.
On an average Inner North block lies Ainslie Urban Farm, filled to the brim with pumpkins, chickens, rabbits, sunflowers, grapes, microgreens, pistachios, strawberries, feijoas … it’s a garden wonderland!
Have you ever heard of nature journalling? One part meditation, one part citizen science, it’s a pastime that fosters curiosity.
According to local woman Fiona Boxall, it may also be a means of...
Creating sustainable gardens in whatever outdoor space you have available in your home has become increasingly popular, so award-winning landscape designer Adam Robinson shares his his top tips for growing new life in your home.
The latest in news, trends and happenings for the home... Scott Leggo releases latest winter wall art collection, Open Gardens Canberra is back, try the blueberry pottery trend, and it's pebble season!
At first glance, you may think you have very few native animals scurrying around your backyard, but Australian gardening icon Costa Georgiadis says there’s a whole lot more than you think.
To help keep your thumbs green in the cold (instead of blue with cold), local gardening expert and leading horticulturalist, Tracey Bool, shares her top tips for winter gardening.
Indoor plants can be the safest option to nurture over winter – but which ones will thrive and which will perish? To answer this, we’ve created a cheat sheet. You’re welcome.
Over 28,150 cups of coffee, 1,820kg of food waste, and 3,458kg of CO2 emissions saved from being dumped in landfill and polluting our atmosphere. That’s Food2Soil’s environmental legacy so far – and they’ve only just begun.
Composting is the process of decomposing household and garden ‘waste’ into nutrient-rich soil improver, using minimal output (that is, human labour), for maximum gain (enviously abundant, healthy plant life).
In the heart of Macquarie lies the epitome of sustainable beauty in the form of a luxurious natural swimming pond surrounded by an abundance of native plants and wildlife.
Local resident Jennifer Weselaar...
Since Cristina and Vince moved into their new home in Isabella Plains in 1988, they have transformed the bare block into a fruitful garden that is also beautiful and whimsical.
Over one year ago, the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted the world, forcing people to stay home and use their creativity to have some fun.
For Chapman resident Upali Kariyawasam, creativity has always been a...
Canberra’s cool climate is usually unforgiving on tropical plants and flowers, but one local woman has a hint of the tropics flowering in her backyard.
Local resident Cathy Oswald has been growing her...
Wicking beds are an increasingly popular growing system which hydrate plants using a wicking (capillary) action. Essentially, they are a self-watering pot. Wicking beds can be closed or open systems: closed systems...