Georgina Reid
Georgina Reid is a writer and the founding editor of Wonderground. Her prose and poetry have been published in books and magazines nationally and internationally. She’s the author of The Planthunter: Truth, Beauty, Chaos and Plants and lives by the river on Darug land.
Gardening as Freedom: A Conversation with Dan Pearson
Conversations, GardensA conversation with landscape designer and writer Dan Pearson.
The Poem that Saved a Forest
CulturePoet Jacqueline Suskin on questions of time, transformation and activism.
Teresa Moller: Poet of Place
Art & Design, ConversationsAcclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller chats with Georgina Reid.
Saving The Great Forest
Conversations, EcologyWorld-renowned forest ecologist David Lindenmayer chats with Georgina Reid.
Coming to Ground: a chat with Kirsten Bradley
ConversationsPermaculture educator and writer, and co-director of Milkwood, Kirsten Bradley on non-binary thinking and doing.
Alive with Rock and Tree
Essays, GardensGeorgina Reid on gardening and love in the Anthropocene.
The Heart of the Forest: A conversation with David Lindenmayer
Conversations, EcologyWorld-renowned forest ecologist David Lindenmayer chats with Georgina Reid.
Tree Rites
EcologyA new project grows ritual, connection and trees on Sydney’s streets.
Good Country
Agriculture, Ecology, MemoirGeorgina Reid remembers a childhood planting trees.
How-To: Propagating Native Plants with Nancy Shaw
How-ToIf you’re looking for magic in your life, look no further than vegetative propagation.
A Garden Made by Hands, Skunks and Fungi
GardensVisit an experimental Los Angeles garden that is constantly un-designing itself.
Paths of Least Resistance: A Conversation With Teresa Moller
Art & Design, ConversationsAcclaimed Chilean landscape architect Teresa Moller chats with Georgina Reid.
Between the Lines
CultureAn inexhaustive exploration of line and desire.
Conversations with Plants
BotanicaEvolutionary biologist Monica Gagliano tunes into the desires of plants.
Audacious Gardening: On Daring to Care
GardensTo be a gardener is to care deeply, inclusively and audaciously for the world outside our homes and our heads.
The Law of the Land
Culture, EcologyWorking towards legal ancestral personhood for Martuwarra, the Fitzroy River.
Letter from the Editor: Welcome to Wonderground
From The EditorThe Planthunter is now Wonderground. Find out more!
Gardening. Radicalised
Art & Design, Conversations, GardensDavid Godshall chats with Georgina Reid about remaking landscape architecture.
Other-Motherhood
Culture, MemoirGeorgina Reid discovers what it really means to care.
In Praise of Quiet Landscapes
Art & Design, GardensGardening can be about seeing as much as making, suggests Georgina Reid.
Minding the Garden
Conversations, Culture, GardensPsychiatrist, gardener and author Sue-Stuart Smith in conversation with Georgina Reid
Listening to Land
AgricultureIdeas of legacy, transformation and love with regenerative farmer and author Charles Massy and his daughter Tanya.
The Beauty and the Terror
EssaysWriting and gardening, seeing and being. An essay by Georgina Reid.
Welcome to the Planthroposcene: A Conversation with Natasha Myers
Conversations, CultureCultural anthropologist Natasha Myers chats with Georgina Reid about growing new worlds.
River Garden Diaries: An Aesthetic of Care
Culture, GardensGeorgina Reid explores explore an aesthetic of care that moves beyond the human as source and beneficiary of action. A de-centring of human desire in the garden.
Introduction: Wonderground Issue One
CultureAn introduction to the inaugural issue of Wonderground journal, by editor Georgina Reid.
The Garden as Ecological Island
GardensCan a suburban garden become an ecological island? NZ artist Michael Shepherd finds out.
Saving Grace: Bill Henson Moves his Childhood Garden
Culture, GardensBill Henson moves his late mother's garden, before the bulldozers arrive.
Growing the Future: A Conversation with Lille Madden
CultureLille Madden is a climate activist, bird nerd and the First Nations Director at Groundswell Giving.
Gardening as Surrender
PeopleA conversation with garden designer and author Richard Unsworth of Garden Life.
Introducing Wonderground Issue Two: LOST
CultureFind out more about Wonderground Issue Two.
Transformative Landscapes: Brooklyn Naval Cemetery Landscape
GardensA Nelson Byrd Woltz designed public space by in New York is created for contemplation and connection.
River Diaries: Getting Lost in the Issue
CultureA behind-the-scenes peek into the process of making Wonderground Issue Two.
Transformative Landscapes: Wild Yards Project
GardensCreate a biodiverse, beautiful and compassionate garden, wherever you live.
Transformative Landscapes: Landscapes of Cohabitation
Art & Design, Gardens'The idea of creation is beautiful, and the human species is capable of so much creation. But an existing climate and ecosystem, it’s not a blank page’ - Thomas Doxiadis
Kate Seddon’s Glorious Gardens
Art & Design, GardensMeet Kate Seddon, a Melbourne landscape designer with a penchant for plants.
Designer Profile: Peter Shaw
Art & Design, GardensA garden ramble with designer Peter Shaw on Victoria's Surf Coast.
Tall Tree Tales: Inga Simpson’s Book of Australian Trees
CultureInga Simpson's Book of Australian Trees brings the forest to the living room and classroom, helping kids see the leafy life around us.
Caroline Rothwell’s Infinite Herbarium
Art & DesignAn interview with Sydney based visual artist Caroline Rothwell about plants, art, and painting with carbon emissions.
River Garden Diaries: Playing in the Layers
Culture, GardensA musing by Georgina Reid on gardening in the space between knowledge and intuition.
The Garden as Breath: A Sydney Garden Designed by Spirit Level
GardensA visit to an austere Sydney garden in a spectacular bushland setting.
Book Review: Spirit of the Garden
GardensA new book by Trisha Dixon explores the elusive essence of gardens and landscapes.
River Garden Diaries: The Mind is a Garden
CultureGeorgina Reid explores the relationship between gardening the earth and the mind.
Designing Abundance with Claudia West
Art & Design, PeopleA conversation with trailblazing landscape architect and ecological design advocate, Claudia West
Falling Awake: Paintings by David Whitworth
Art & DesignAn interview with painter David Whitworth about art, landscape architecture and poetry.
Running with the Plants: Women Leading New Conversations about Nature
CultureMeet five women who are shifting conversations about plants and people.
New Shoots: Bushfire Recovery, One Year on
BotanicaWhat has happened in the forests and on the ground one year on from Australia's Black Summer bushfires?
Wonderground Journal: Infrequently Asked Questions
CulturePre-Order your copy of Wonderground Journal now!
The Well Gardened Mind
CultureA review of the Well Gardened Mind by Sue Stuart-Smith.
Orchid House: Sex and Extinction on the Gold Coast
Art & Design"People seem happy to talk about extinction if it involves a pretty flower."
Rest, Repose and Race: Leslie Bennett and Black Sanctuary Gardens
GardensA chat with landscape designer and founder of Black Sanctuary Gardens, Leslie Bennett, about race, visibility and action in the garden.
Attention is the Beginning of Devotion
CultureA musing on what it means to pay attention to nature.
Light in the Dark: Photographer Jane Fulton Alt
Art & DesignA chat about landscape, creativity and light with Jane Fulton Alt
Reilluminate: The Garden at Night
Art & Design, GardensAn interview with Allison Watkins - photographer and night-time garden stalker.
“The still point of the turning world”
CultureA musing by Georgina Reid on the call to garden at times of uncertainty, and always.
A Collection of Odes. To Resilience, Weeds and Wishing Trees
Culture“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” ― Thich Nhat Hanh
A Celebration of Variegation
BotanicaVariegated plants are the sequins and glitter of the botanical world.
Plant / Life: Artist Lily Langham’s Incredible Country Garden
GardensLily's garden will knock your socks off. A brilliant cure for isolation blues.
Ectopic Plants: Life in the Cracks
Art & DesignPhotographer Chloe Ferres finds hope, and life, in the cracks.
Grasping at Order: In the Garden, in the Mind
GardensA musing on the complexity of gardening in a pandemic.
A collection of Odes: To Dirty Hands, Chairs and Un-Cool Plants
CultureGorgeous garden odes from the Planthunter Ode Project
Jac Semmler’s Mad Perennial Garden
GardensJac Semmler has created a perennial wonderland in suburban Melbourne. A bit of whimsy, a bunch of madness and a lot of fun!
A Smorgasbord of Beautiful Madness
GardensTake a wander around a collection of wondrous, wild and joyful gardens.
Seven Billion Burnt Trees
BotanicaA conversation about plants and bushfire with Brett Summerell, Chief Botanist at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.
Breathing Fire
CultureAn essay by Georgina Reid exploring questions of relationship and imagination in the wake of the Australian bushfires.
Stefan Burger is a Cacti Chaser
BotanicaStefan is the real, spiky, deal. We chat with him about his cacti hunting adventures in Chile, weird plant adaptations and more.
Poem: This Here, This Now
CultureA poem by Georgina Reid.
Musk Cottage: Rick Eckersley’s Rogue Garden
GardensAcclaimed Australian garden designer Rick Eckersley is a rogue. So is his garden. So is his upcoming book.
Nocturnal Medicine: Dancing in the Dark
Art & DesignAn interview with Michelle Shofet and Larissa Belcic of New York based design studio, Nocturnal Medicine
Microbial Love: An Earthy Chat With the Land Gardeners
Botanica, HarvestA guide to deep soil appreciation with two of the most fanatical composters we've ever met.
What Tree Will You Be When You Die?
CultureCreating new life from death with memorial forests.
On the Other Side of Loss Lies Love
CultureA personal exploration of the relationship between ecological grief and transformation by Georgina Reid
Colleen Southwell’s Art Grows From the Garden
Art & Design"I am unashamedly hoping to create work that is beautiful, contemplative and uplifting. I want it to speak, but with an optimistic, inquisitive and gentle voice."
Plants are not Objects: A Spiky Photo Essay
GardensA visit to the Huntington Desert Garden and a lesson in non-objectification of plants.
Life is Complicated and Mysterious and Dogmatism is Boring
GardensOn making unconstrained, ecologically rich, meaningful and beautiful gardens
Plant / Life: Will Studd’s Edible Wonderland
GardensInternational cheese man Will Studd is a VERY passionate vegetable gardener.
Case Studies: Questions of Home, Plants and Power
Art & DesignAn art project by Felicity Jones and Mark Smith exploring the cultural and environmental impacts of the Wardian case.
Fiona Brockhoff’s Sublime Garden Wonderland
Art & Design, GardensKarkalla is one of the great private gardens of Australia.
Welcome to Our New Website!
CultureFind out more about our new website design and re-branding
Awakening the Activist: Right Here, Right Now
CultureWriter Freya Latona on what it means to be an environmental activist, right here, right now.
River Garden Diaries: All Prospect, No Refuge
GardensWhat to do with a windy garden?
Plant / Life: Lyle Filippe of Roraima Nursery
Gardens, PeopleA visit to the garden and nursery of a self-confessed plant hoarder.
Coming Home: The art of Tamara Dean
Art & DesignTamara's photographic work explores beautiful ways of saying painful things.
Design and Life: Xanthe White, Miguel Urquijo and Phillip Johnson
Art & Design, GardensThree outstanding designers with a deep appreciation for and reverence of the natural world.
Design and Life: Andrea Cochran, Kate Cullity and Sacha Coles
Art & DesignThree landscape architects whose combined visions are shaping the earth beneath our feet for the better.
The Dirt: Adam Simpson
Gardens, PeopleA visit to lawyer Adam Simpson's particularly particular moss garden in Sydney.
Say My Name: On Speaking the Indigenous Names of Plants
CultureGeorgina Reid on what it might mean to speak the indigenous names of plants.
Plant / Life: Jo Ferguson
Gardens, PeopleA visit to a soulful coastal garden on the Mornington Peninsula.
Landscape as Protagonist?
Art & DesignAn exploration of what it look like when landscape plays the lead role.
On Politics, Love and Climate Change
CultureAn essay on finding common ground.
The Dirt: Roderick Wyllie
Gardens, PeopleA garden adventure with landscape architect and plant nerd, Roderick Wyllie.
From Control to Connection: A New Ethos of Care
CultureAn essay by Georgina Reid exploring an alternate way to care.
Plant / Life: A Melbourne Riverside Garden
GardensRamble around this wild garden with us!
Nostalgia in the Garden: Help, Hindrance or Somewhere in Between?
GardensA survey of garden designers and makers on the subject of nostalgia.
The Dirt: Yunice Kang
PeopleA journey towards connection, via plants.
Plant / Life: Bronte House
GardensCome for a stroll through Sydney's heritage listed Bronte House and garden with one of it's current custodians, Anna van der Gardner.
Plant/Life: The Garden of St Erth
GardensWe head to the hills of central Victoria for a ramble around a historic and highly productive garden.
After Nature: An Exhibition by Janet Laurence
Art & DesignCare, art and activism at Janet Laurence's new exhibition in Sydney.