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gardening November 11, 2023
The curl of possum tails around branches evokes for the author the unsettling sentience of climbing plants and things that grasp.
gardening September 30, 2023
Life in the garden is about the balance of seasonal temperatures, light and shade, kindness and cruelty – and sometimes it’s about the spaces in-between.
gardening August 12, 2023
Determined not to add to her pile of plastic pots, the author embarks on the meditative practice that is raising seedlings.
gardening July 8, 2023
In the midst of a deathly, monotone winter, life is getting ready to burst out – including the narcissists of the plant world.
gardening May 27, 2023
The moth vine casts its shadow over the garden, from which the author manages to salvage a benediction.
gardening April 15, 2023
What began as a fresh and neatly paved area transformed over the years into a lived space of success, failure and memory.
gardening March 11, 2023
The gardening media has no place for the compromised gardener, who finds beauty in ugliness, bounty in neglect and hope in the unruly silverbeet.
gardening January 21, 2023
From a Melbourne backyard to community cultivation in Manila’s slums, the garden offers autonomy, human connection and a firmer footing in a turbulent world.
gardening September 10, 2022
The same restless energy and wildness that stirred the pilgrims is alive in the gardens of inner-city Melbourne.
gardening June 18, 2022
A reflection on the lilies of Galilee, the orchid of the building site and the karmic power of poo bags.
gardening March 12, 2022
A toxic plant, allowed to thrive due to wilful ignorance, becomes an invading force that threatens to take root beyond the borders of one small urban garden.
