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.
Floral Fantastic: A Chat with Megan Park
PeopleFashion Designer Megan Park’s shop on Gertrude Street, Fitzroy, has the most amazing door handle I have…
A World Without Money?!
CultureImagine a world without money. Hard, isn’t it? Let’s try. Ready? Just relax, this is only a thought…
Plant/Life: Lindsey Baudinet’s Birchgrove Garden
Gardens, PeopleLindsey Baudinet has been gardening for much of her life. She is a no-fuss gardener, into plants…
Richard Unsworth: 20-ish Cheeky Questions
PeopleRichard Unsworth has a wonderful eye for beauty. His shop, Garden Life, in the Sydney suburb of…
Propagating Plants – Save some $$!
How-ToIf you want to make a garden but don’t have much money, propagation is your friend. What…
20 Cheeky Questions: Greg Hatton
PeopleGreg Hatton carves out his living from plants. Wood, to be exact. When I visited him and his…
The Big Business of Food
HarvestThe National Farmer’s Federation says that each Australian farmer produces enough food to feed 600 people annually…
Plant/Life: Chris Cobbett & Family
Gardens, PeopleThe owners of this brilliant garden in Clifton Hill love plants so much that they bought the vacant block next door and turned it into a garden. It's really special. Check it out!
The Dirt: A Free Lovin’ Man
PeopleThis is a story about a man with an open heart, a free mind, and a high libido.
Botanicarotica: A Collection of Poems
CultureFor me, poetry is perfect for capturing moments in nature. It offers a creative opportunity for the…
Jamie Durie: 20 (sexy) Questions
PeopleWhen we decided on the Sex theme for this month’s content I immediately thought of Jamie Durie.
Plant/Life: Mathieu Gallois
Gardens, PeopleMathieu Gallois lives halfway between the second and third floor of a huge old warehouse building in Redfern.
The Dirt: Holly Austin
Gardens, PeopleHolly Austin is an actor, musician, writer, beat-boxer, and self-confessed hack gardener. Here is her story...
Plant/Life: The Eckersleys
Gardens, PeopleThis garden in the Melbourne suburb of Surrey Hills is a real family affair. Owned by Ross…
The Planthunter’s Royal Botanic Poetry Trail
GardensThere is something very powerful about the way gardens and poetry affect us. In many ways, they encourage…
The Poetry of Plant Life
CultureFrom Epicurus’ garden school, to the grandeur of Versailles, to the crop of community gardens popping up…
Gardening With Soul
PeopleThere is something very poetic about a gardening nun, don’t you think? Jess Feast, a documentary maker…
The Dirt: Nick Ritar
Harvest, PeopleAn interview with Milkwood Permaculture co-founder Nick Ritar about murdering plants, food ethics and connection.
Do-It-Yourself Flower Power
How-ToLast week we published a story on the origins of the term ‘flower power’ by Lucy Kaldor.
Conversations With Plants
PeopleWhen I was about seven years old my best friend and I did an experiment where we…
Tree Planting Ceremonies
CultureLong before there was talk of ‘managing’ forests, humans relied on trees in almost every facet of…
Plant/Life: Jonathan West & Family
Gardens, PeopleIn what could be the most exciting plant news since the discovery of the Wollemi pine, this…
Jardin Majorelle
GardensA few years ago I took myself on a five month garden tour of Europe. It was…
The Dirt: Hayley West
Gardens, PeopleHayley West has a Rhipsalis addiction. I know, it sounds scary but its not. Rhipasalis is a…
The Dirt: Brendan Moar
Gardens, PeopleBrendan Moar is a lovely character. We had a two-cup-of-tea kind of conversation, rambling about all sorts…
Fresh From The Pharm Gate
Botanica, HarvestIt would be understandable if you thought I could eat and house myself with the eloquence of…
Growing A Green Thumb: Part 1
How-ToBlack thumbs don’t exist. Nor do green thumbs. Thumbs are generally pinkish coloured and everyones’ looks the…
Art With Heart
Art & DesignPhillippa Carnemolla is a Sydney based industrial designer, jeweller and PhD scholar and spent 2013 as…
Diego Bonetto: The Weedy One
PeopleIt’s a hot afternoon in March when I catch the train to an arts centre in western…
Worlds End Farm
HarvestWhen I think of shelter, in my head I see four walls and a roof. My heart,…
Plant Portraits
Art & DesignWhy are ugly babies and dangerously adored pooches the only ones who get the opportunity for studio…
For The Love of a Canopy
BotanicaFreddie Mercury once sang ‘Open your eyes. Look up to the skies and see.’ An old art…
Hope Gardens
Art & DesignWhat does the concept of shelter mean to someone without a home? Is it a distant dream,…
A Weedy Kinda Love
CultureMirra Whale is an artist based in Sydney. Obsessed by food and inspired by the natural environment…
Garden Design, Topiary & Dead Dogs
GardensGardens exist at the intersection between humans and the natural world. We create them for many reasons.
It’s All In The Leaves
BotanicaPlants are amazing things. We all know this, don’t we? Their amazingness comes in all shapes and…
Visions of Utopia
Art & Design, GoodsI reckon if The Planthunter launched a textile range, it would look very much like the fabric…
Trackside Farming in Mumbai
HarvestIn early 2013 Dutch photographer Henk Wildschut visited Mumbai, the largest city in India and one of…
A Celebration of Cactus
PeopleA chat with cactus collector Lester Meyers, of Gilgandra in north western NSW
A Salute to The Tree
Art & DesignTrees are truly magnificent things and are one of my greatest loves. They move with the wind;…
36 Edward Street
Culture, GardensA personal story of loss, grief and growth in the garden.
How To Kill Plants
How-ToNot everyone is interested in hunting plants because they love them. Some may be interested in hunting…
Pretty Girls Make Good Fertilizer
CultureWriter Lucy Kaldor explores the growing (ha!) green burial movement.
Composting Possums
BotanicaApparently there are many non-compostable materials in the world. I have been told by a number of…
Doctor Lisa Cooper
PeopleI keep hearing of this Doctor Lisa Cooper character. She is an artist, a doctor of philosophy,…
The Fire at Wallaby Creek
BotanicaFebruary the 7th, 2009. Black Saturday. 173 people were killed, over 2000 homes destroyed, and around 450…