Roses are on-trend once again. Here’s how to help them flourish in your garden

Roses are on-trend once again. Here’s how to help them flourish in your garden

From which blooms to choose to what to plant around them,gardening experts have some helpful advice.

  • byMegan Backhouse

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Corpse flower blooms in Geelong,revealing its putrid ‘dead possum’ stench

Corpse flower blooms in Geelong,revealing its putrid ‘dead possum’ stench

After much anticipation,Geelong’s corpse plant,which only flowers once every seven to ten years,has finally opened – but you only have 48 hours to see it.

  • byLiam Mannix
Looking for inspiration for your home? Here are the top books packed with great ideas

Looking for inspiration for your home? Here are the top books packed with great ideas

Transform your house and garden with these handy guides.

  • byGeorgie Gordon
Dilapidation and delight:An 1880s dairy turned award-winning garden

Dilapidation and delight:An 1880s dairy turned award-winning garden

Even those with small city spaces can glean ideas from this sprawling country estate.

  • byMegan Backhouse
When cricketers are all out of love
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When cricketers are all out of love

Blame it on a dodgy hammy.

Tomatoes at stake
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Tomatoes at stake

Gardener’s delight or big beef?

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If you want homegrown vegies this summer,it’s time to get gardening

If you want homegrown vegies this summer,it’s time to get gardening

Cultivating a bountiful and unique summer harvest can be easier than you think.

  • byMegan Backhouse
The 100-year-old village where gardens are a point of connection

The 100-year-old village where gardens are a point of connection

As cities grow and the housing crisis deepens,looking to the past can remind us of design lessons worth repeating.

  • byMegan Backhouse
How to create a native garden that birds and people will love

How to create a native garden that birds and people will love

Even if your outdoor area is small – or confined to a balcony – it’s possible to design a space that’s welcoming to pollinators and passersby.

  • byMegan Backhouse
Put a spring in your step:Nifty gardening ideas

Put a spring in your step:Nifty gardening ideas

Handy tools for that horticultural hero in your life.

  • byFrances Mocnik
Our favourite tree turned out to be my ‘worst garden nightmare’. We had to get rid of it
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Our favourite tree turned out to be my ‘worst garden nightmare’. We had to get rid of it

It was already 20 metres and the tree would keep growing like nobody’s business,sucking up other plants’ sunlight,water and nutrients. We called in the arborists.

  • byKate Halfpenny