Celebrated landscape designer, Paul Bangay, has been in the biz for 30 years, and for 16 of them he has been tending to his own private garden just outside Daylesford.

Named Stonefields, the sprawling property is Paul’s labour of love. It is regal and robust, filled with flowers, hedges and ponds all inspired by the great country houses of the United Kingdom. A new book by Paul celebrates the seasonal landscape he has curated, and observes the botanical shifts that comes with each one. Stonefields: By The Seasons charts a mature garden in full bloom after years of patient growing.

Our own Lucy Feagins will join Paul for a stroll around Stonefields and a conversation about this meaningful project this Saturday November 14th at 10am on Instagram live!

Is it possible to go to the supermarket/grocery store/farmer’s market at the moment and not be tempted by the mounds of fragrant berries that have popped up overnight? Strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, and raspberries are at the peak of season (and flavour!),  and we can’t get enough of them.

Luckily, our trusty food columnist Julia Busuttil Nishimura knows what to do with an abundance of these juicy, zesty morsels. Read on for her delicious (and easy!) recipe combining delicate berries with heady tropical ingredients like coconut and lime to make a buttery, pillowy cloud of a cake. This crowd-pleasing loaf smells and tastes like holidays – and we could all use some of that right now!

Nestled in a leafy, tranquil pocket of the Melbourne CBD, right next to the MCG sports precinct, is the suburb of East Melbourne. It’s here, in this curiously quiet corner of a giant capital metropolis, that landscape architect Nadia Gill was engaged for her latest project.

The ‘Henry House’ garden is a lively addition to a recently renovated heritage terrace. Framed by original Victorian detailing at the front, and a gnarled old apple tree at the rear boundary line, these reinvigorated green spaces create a dialogue between the home’s old and new architecture.

If you’ve ever wondered how to create the perfect indoor-outdoor transition, this garden is your masterclass!

Not only are Sophia Kaplan and Lauren Camilleri the founders of Sydney interior nursery Leaf Supply, they are also seasoned authors – Plantopedia is their third book!

Billed as the definitive guide to houseplants, this book covers everything, from choosing the right type of plant for your space, to how to keep the things alive! With detailed care information, tips for troubleshooting pest invasion, interiors advice and profiles of different species accompanied by beautiful photography, this book has everything you need to know about creating and caring for an indoor garden.

Today, we’re featuring an excerpt from Plantopedia to give you a little taste of this thoughtful plant guru’s guide!

Way back in 2013, Hetty McKinnon was making packed lunches from her home kitchen on Arthur Street in Surry Hills, Sydney, and hand delivering them to customers on her bicycle every morning. This was before her cult status cookbook Community had even been released! 

Fast forward seven years and Hetty is a household name renowned for her hearty, mostly vegetarian salads. You could probably credit her with the emergence of salad as a meal unto itself (Ottolenghi who….?)! With another two books under belt and the launch of food journal, Peddler, it’s safe to say Hetty is well and truly an established figure on the food publishing scene.

Today we bring you a peek at the next step in Hetty’s culinary empire – her new book, To Asia, With Love. Hetty is a Chinese woman born in Australia, but now based in New York with her young family, and the book is filled with recipes that explore her heritage through cuisine. The meals are rooted in the rich fragrant flavours traditional to Asia’s diverse cuisines, but with hints of Western influence. We’re talking creamy cacio e pepe with udon noodles or vegan fish sauce! 

Read on for an excerpt and a recipe for a killer pad thai!

When designing a garden, the scope is usually limited to what the owners themselves want to see in their space. But what happens when your garden backs onto a busy coastal walk, and needs to look just as good to passers-by as it does from the residence?

Secret Gardens has made a magnificent effort to answer that question with their Gordon’s Bay project. By drawing on the colours of the surrounding headland, and inserting a diverse palette of succulents and drought-resistant natives, the expert landscape designers have transformed the vertiginous sandy stretch into a verdant, public-facing garden.

Not to mention adding a rooftop cactus garden and Mediterranean-inspired courtyard to boot!

Grand residential gardens are commonly surrounded by a high fence for residents’ privacy, but not this one! 

Designed by Dangar Barin Smith, the deep front garden of this property in Mollymook, NSW, actively contributes to its streetscape, so much so, it has become an inadvertent tourist attraction!

Jonima Flowers is a true family business. Founded 13 years ago by third generation flower grower John Padovano and his wife Ingrid Padovano, the flower farm today grows over a 100 varieties of seasonal blooms a year, and has expanded to involve the couple’s now four children. 

There have been many curve balls thrown at Jonima Flowers and other Australian growers over the past decade, but the last year has been particularly challenging. We spoke with Ingrid about what she’s been doing to diversify the business in Yanderra, NSW (on the border of the Southern Highlands), and the ongoing benefits of buying local, seasonal flowers.