What a legacy Clive and Penny Blazey have nurtured!

As founders of Diggers Club, Australia’s largest gardening club, they have helped preserve an astounding abundance of rare plants and heirloom seeds over the past 40 years.

In the leadup to a very special Heronswood Harvest Festival next weekend, the pioneers reflect on the ‘fascinating pursuit’ that is gardening.

Today we bring you a family’s city garden that beautifully complements their priorities and the home it generously encompasses.

This lush, relaxed oasis belongs to landscape designer William Dangar – and it certainly exemplifies his expertise and passion for plant life!

Thanks to our resident green-thumb, Georgina Reid of The Planthunter, we’ve been lucky enough to peek inside some pretty incredible gardens Australia-wide. Last year, we took a tour of Sunnymeade; an expertly landscaped property in Anglesea, belonging to Peter and Simone Shaw of Ocean Road Landscaping, who are in the biz of creating environmentally sensitive residential gardens.

You can see the splendor for yourself, thanks to Open Gardens Victoria, as Peter opens the proverbial door to Sunnymeade this weekend.

Today we bring you our first garden feature from South Australia – an exceptional, functional ecosystem as well as a public sanctuary!

Taking out the 2017 Sustainability Award for Landscape and Urban Design, the 2.5-hectare Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland has been designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean.

The landscape architecture firm’s Director, Damian Schultz, takes us through this wonderful project, through which they’ve sought to highlight the poetry and processes of the natural world.

Today we tour the National Rhododendron Garden, Park’s Victoria’s 42-hectare public garden in the lush Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne.

Established in 1960, this exceptional conservation project is home to 15,000 rhododendrons, but also thousands of other flowering shrubs and perennials.

We photographed the breathtaking garden earlier this month – you MUST see it in full Springtime bloom!

Today we visit beautiful garden in Melbourne’s Eaglemont, the result of a 25 year collaboration between garden designer Sharon Harris and her client.

The result of an ongoing ‘ebb and flow’, this is a brilliant example of the magic that can occur as a result of a long-term creative partnership between garden owner and designer.

Today our gardens columnist, Georgina Reid of The Planthunter, tours the Healesville garden of artist Clare James.

An inspiring, storied place, this property is the product of years of creativity, lateral thinking and thrift.

Apparently around 150 plants can fit in one carry-on bag… or so modern day planthunters Matt Reed and Michael Morant inform us, in this incredibly moving story!

The duo from Antique Perennials, a nursery in Kinglake, 45km North East of central Melbourne, talk to Georgina Reid of The Planthunter about losing their property in the Black Saturday bushfires, re-building from scratch, and the incredibly diverse plants available to grow in Australian gardens.

Today our gardens columnist, Georgina Reid of The Planthunter, takes us through a lush heritage garden in Sydney.

Designed around 20 years ago, it has been re-invigorated by Sydney-based landscape designer Michael Bates. He’s embarked on a considerate update, with a little ‘chainsaw gardening’ to make way for the new!

As you probably know, TDF is a tiny team, but we are so lucky to have a wonderful network of contributors from across Australia that help us to bring you coverage of creative happenings from outside our Melbourne base. Today we’re excited to welcome writer Karen Locke and photographer Honey Atkinson of Will Work For Food to the fold.

Each month, the duo will be travelling to rural and regional areas across the country to bring you insights into the lives of those living sustainably, on and from the land.

Today Karen and Honey visit the Hunter Region of New South Wales, where they meet Vanessa Garcia and Dominique Northam of The Flower Farm Collective.