Earlier in the week we introduced you to Clem Day, aka Some Things I Like To Cook, who is with us this week to share four recipes that, together, make up an epic spring feast! First up was the recipe for her anchovy roast chicken with salsa verde and lemony aioli, and today Clem shares not one but TWO hearty vegetarian dishes that round out the savoury component of our feast – a charred cabbage in brown butter with toasted hazelnuts, and a spring veg salad with burrata and mustard vinaigrette. YUM.

Stay tuned for the final instalment, and RIDICULOUSLY good looking sweet treat, this Friday!

There was always plenty to love about this Edwardian in Fitzroy North, but the previous interiors were basic, and the garden almost entirely devoid of foliage.

With the architectural expertise of Buck & Simple and garden prowess of Inge Jabra Landscapes, the home now is open and airy, showcasing a design as distinguished as its gorgeous Edwardian facade.

On the very, very, very long list of things that we’re missing right now, sharing a meal with friends is PRETTY high up there. Self-taught cook Clementine Day (of food project Some Things I Like It Cook) knows this all too well.

Last year, Clem self-published (including writing the recipes, styling the tables and taking the photos!) her first cookbook, Coming Together, based entirely around six long lunches she created with six different pals. And while we’ve still got a little longer before we can do that kind of thing again, Clem is joining us this week to share four recipes, created just for us, that together will make up a feast of sorts. Like all of Clem’s food, this recipe series is all about being present, making it nice, marking the passage of time, and celebrating the promise of sunnier times ahead.

This morning we’re starting with Clem’s anchovy roast chicken with salsa verde and lemony aioli, and there are two veg options and a RIDICULOUSLY good looking sweet treat coming later in this series. But for now, over to Clem!

John and Jenny Shaw are lifelong gardeners, and their half acre plot in Woodend is an expression of their lives. Planted without reason or design, it’s a rambling and intuitive space that resists construction. Even defintion. There’s a mannagum tree over 300 years old, beside random plants gifted to John and Jenny by friends. John describes it as a ‘serendipitous’ place, a lived-in garden filled with tokens of the couple’s near 50-year stewardship of the property.

This space of cultivated landscape has seen John and Jenny’s children grow from infants to adults, even hosting one of their weddings decades later. Their son, Ben Shaw, has gone into a career in permaculture – no doubt inspired by a childhood spent soaking up this loving family garden. 

It’s a very special place.

Garden stories are some of our most popular reads on TDF these days – take a look at the news cycle in the last 18 months and it’s not hard to work out why! There’s nothing more calming than bathing in the beauty of a glorious planting scheme, and landscape designers are the ones responsible for that instant tranquility.

They are the craftspeople taming the space between the domestic and wild, and it’s about time they got some recognition! From industry legends to newcomers, these are the 12 outstanding projects shortlisted in the Landscape Design category of the TDF + Laminex Design Awards 2021.

This category is proudly sponsored by Eco Outdoor.

Whether it’s touring through his legendary home garden at Stonefields, or joining him for a guided tour of the beautiful Daylesford region, everybody loves Paul Bangay! So much so, in fact, that his classic book Paul Bangay’s Guide to Plants has recently been updated and re-released in a new expanded edition.

With tips for gardens in a changing climate, anecdotes and insights into successful landscape design, this fresh edition features two new chapters!

Read on below for an extract on how to choose the perfect plant for your garden: big or small!

Nothing says winter like an aromatic-infused spiced fruit. Encase that sweet, stewy goodness in folds of butter cake with a crumbly, crunchy topping and you have an unbeatable winter treat.

This recipe from Julia Busuttil Nishimura combines all those delicious, comforting flavours and textures into one perfect morsel that can be served in perfect tea-time squares, or cut up like a slice for school lunchboxes. *chef’s kiss*

Unlike many coastal properties, the brief for this garden on the Mornington Peninsula was to create seclusion and sanctuary, rather than to maximise beach views.

In response to the sprawling site, Ian Barker Gardens designed a varied, six-part layout encompassing outdoor entertaining, a sunset terrace, a pool, fire-pit and luscious flowery plantings. It’s a ‘secret garden’ filled with unexpected delights!