After decades of photographing the world’s best gardens,Claire Takacs is looking for inspiration in unexpected places.
This year’s Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show was packed with inspiration for all gardeners.
From bright bonsai to ornamental grasses,there’s no limit to the seasonal shades you can add to your patch in an instant.
Gardeners and artists are putting plants in galleries and expanding our notions of what horticulture can be.
A glimpse of tree branches from the streets behind is the closest most of us will ever get to this private space.
Some plants will transform the mood of your entire garden in a matter of months.
Two artists show what’s possible in tight inner-city spaces.
Anything you are harvesting – blackcurrants,capsicums,cucumbers – can be transformed in such a way that their delights can be saved for later.
It is possible to while away a whole summer in a garden of carefully chosen and well-managed plants.
Here’s everything we’ll be growing in the year ahead.
You don’t need a big space to grow your own fruit trees,and it can change what you eat and how you see your garden.