If you wanted to create a garden of nothing but Australian plants, you would have a cornucopia of beauties from which to choose. You could find ground covers, shrubs, and trees that flower ...

While plants can’t walk, they can certainly travel. Some species have travelled vast distances over millennia, moving by different and varied modes. Some found new habitats when the continent they ...

Costa explores some underused native trees, screening plants, climbers and groundcovers suited to layered planting in urban ...

The craft of cultivating bonsai evolved from Japan with a focus on minituarising trees and plants. Recent enthusiasm for the world of tiny trees is seeing Australia's native flora re-imagined as ...

They’re iconically Australian and beloved by many. But eucalypts also have a deadly reputation. There’s an old idiom I still hear every now and then that pops up in relation to eucalyptus trees – ...

When we make roads, houses or farmland, we often find large old trees in the way. Our response is often to lop off offending branches or even cut the tree down. This is a bad idea. The more we learn ...