I wrote recently about the Australian Rock Garden at the Arboretum & Botanic Garden at UC Santa Cruz, as a resource for home gardeners. For today’s column, we’ll outline the history, design and ...

Australia has its own pride of place at this year’s Royal Horticultural Society Chelsea Flower Show, with desert grasses, bottlebrush and one of the standout stars of the show, a “masquerade” kangaroo ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ANGUS STEWART: This is the Australian National Botanic Gardens in Canberra. It's one of Australia's ...

Australia has experienced an unusually warm and dry winter this year and, globally, July was the hottest month recorded. The warmer conditions have been enough to trick our plants into thinking spring ...

An 84-year-old Aussie scientist has trained his eye to notice a hidden insect world that few people see in their gardens. Entomologist Michael Batley has just described 12 new species of native bee, ...

Landscapers and diligent gardeners are always on the lookout for hardy and distinctive shrubs, something that would be a perfect fit for that one open spot in the garden. Increasingly, gardeners are ...

An Australian team headed by Wes Fleming claimed the prestigious Chelsea show's top prize for the first time in 2013 and acclaimed landscape designer Jim Fogarty wants to do the nation proud again ...