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Have you recently harvested a big fruit from your garden? Here an expert’s tips on how to go from jumbo to gargantuan with your tomatoes.
How gardening can make you happier and healthier.
They might be a hated household pest, but ants actually live fascinating and complex lives.
Indigenous food and medicine gardens, and traditional manikin (wild rice) harvesting offer hope – for the future health of humanity and the earth that sustains us.
Ponds are good for more than just decorating the garden – they could be your best tool in fighting climate change.
Plants can find it tough to get all the nitrogen they need, especially from Australian soils. But summer storms can provide an added boost.
From the Bible to Versailles, gardens are bound to their political and religious history.
A wood and glass case invented in the early 19th-century transformed the movement of plants around the world. In Melbourne, several thousand people greeted a primrose on its arrival from England.
As ponds dry up, so too does our connection to nature.
A gardening expert reveals the simple things you can do to protect your garden during a heatwave.
The nematode that can turn slugs into zombies.
Garden pollinators can turn their noses up at the flowers human eyes find most beautiful.
In a world of increasing urbanisation, density, pressure and, some say, isolation, there’s a natural salve for stress, pressure and mental illness. And it’s right above our heads.
Exposure to nature plays a positive role in brain development by providing children with opportunities to take risks, discover new things, and be creative.
Is providing birds with food and water making them too dependent? Or are gardens just the new frontier of Australia’s urban landscape? New research aims to find out.
It is possible to use small spaces such as transport corridors, verges and the edges of sporting grounds for native wildlife habitat restoration, helping to bring biodiversity back into cities.
In a busy city like London, green space is a valuable commodity.
Bird baths are more than just ornamental splash pools. They’re also a site where animals socialise and intense rivalries play out. And bird bath design, location and cleanliness can have a big impact.
A growing body of research literature suggests time spent gardening is as good for the gardener as it is for the garden.
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Senior Research Associate, School of Agriculture, Food and Ecosystem Sciences, The University of Melbourne
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Principal Horticultural Scientist (RHS)/RHS Fellow, University of Reading
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Adjunct Lecturer/ Ecologist, University of New England
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Founder of Msit No’kmaq
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Mycology, West Virginia University
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PhD Candidate, Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
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Researcher, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Senior Lecturer in Ecology, Royal Holloway, University of London
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Professor in Environmental & Landscape Planning, University of Manchester
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Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow in Ecology and Entomology, Edith Cowan University
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Head of Urbanism, Centre for Sustainable Communities, University of Hertfordshire
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Knowledge Exchange Fellow, University of Oxford
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Lecturer, Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University
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Research Fellow Apiculture, University of Sussex
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Professor in Zoology, James Cook University