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Green facades
Green facades can be a resilient and inexpensive way to create thermally comfortable and visually stunning homes.
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Small spaces gardening
Kate Smalley from Small Spaces Garden Design explains how to make the most of courtyards, balconies and vertical spaces.
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Gimme shelter: Birdscaping
Sarah Coles speaks to Bev Debrincat from the Habitat Network about the best ways to birdscape your garden.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Ideas & Advice
Saving seed
Seed saving–the act of saving seed from vegetables, grains, herbs and flowers–has a long history.
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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.
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Native food backyard
Save water and eat well by cultivating native plant foods in your garden.
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The generous verge garden
Planting veggies and herbs on the verge is a productive way to garden.
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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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