Outdoors Archives - Page 2 of 2

Green facades

Green facades can be a resilient and inexpensive way to create thermally comfortable and visually stunning homes.

Small spaces gardening

Kate Smalley from Small Spaces Garden Design explains how to make the most of courtyards, balconies and vertical spaces.

Outdoors

Gimme shelter: Birdscaping

Sarah Coles speaks to Bev Debrincat from the Habitat Network about the best ways to birdscape your garden.

Outdoors

A better shade of grey: Grey water in your garden

Potable water is becoming the world’s liquid gold, and in the driest continent on earth, it’s priceless. Horticulturist Michael Tanner outlines how you can help save this precious resource by going grey in the garden.

Ideas & Advice

In the zone: Zoning your garden

Horticulturist Michael Tanner gives some tips on zoning your garden to make the most of nature’s most precious resource.

Ideas & Advice

Native resilience: Inverawe gardens

When Bill And Margaret Chestnut first inspected their 22 acre property in Margate, Tasmania, it was nothing but woody weeds, fallen timber and piles of rubbish.

Ideas & Advice

Saving seed

Seed saving–the act of saving seed from vegetables, grains, herbs and flowers–has a long history.

Ideas & Advice

Farming on the fringe

Australia’s rising city-based population coupled with a growing interest in food miles has led to fertile conditions for urban agriculture. Sarah Coles meets some of those farming on the fringe.

Outdoors

Native food backyard

Save water and eat well by cultivating native plant foods in your garden.

Outdoors

The generous verge garden

Planting veggies and herbs on the verge is a productive way to garden.

Outdoors

Get your sun shades on: external blinds and shading

In most climates, appropriate sun shading is as important to successful passive solar design as orientation and window placement. Anna Cumming looks at how to keep the sun out when it’s not wanted.

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