By Jennifer McQueen
What keeps women in greenlife? It is not just plants. It is purpose, flexibility, shared knowledge and the quiet strength of community. In this International Women’s Day reflection, women from across Australia share how they found their way into the industry, and why, despite the challenges, they choose to stay.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Daniel Fuller
Flowers are highly-functional green infrastructure. Beyond looking pretty, they can support both at-risk urban ecological communities and pest-suppressing insects such as hoverflies and micro-wasps. However, with gardens becoming smaller, it is harder to obtain a full spectrum of flowers throughout the year.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Gabrielle Stannus
A town planner by trade, Natalie Vallance has grown into the role of a grower with the support of her late husband and horticulturist, Steve. Together the pair transformed an essentially vacant block of land 50 kilometres north of Perth, Western Australia, into the Muchea Tree Farm, a thriving production nursery specialising in Australian natives and Proteaceae.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Russell Larke
Public landscapes offer much more than visual beauty; they play a critical role in shaping how people experience and connect with place. They can tell stories, preserve culture, celebrate biodiversity and encourage people to think differently about the country they live on.… Continue reading
Read MoreBy Patrick Regnault
Designing a garden that lasts more than a few years seems to be more of a challenge these days when compared to previous centuries. The fast pace of change and our desire for constant renewal accompanied by quick results are not conducive to a generational view of landscape design.… Continue reading
Read MoreIn spring 2025, the Greener Spaces Better Places program launched a national consumer campaign funded by the nursery levy.
With lack of interest overtaking cost as a key barrier to buying more plants, a new campaign has made the benefits of plants hard to ignore by linking them to property value.… Continue reading
Evergreen Infrastructure employees Madison Slocombe (L) and Taylor Casey (R) receiving on-site training (Image: Evergreen infrastructure)
By Michael Casey
If you have spent any time on a green roof installation, a streetscape retrofit or a living wall maintenance visit, you will have noticed the shift: crews are changing, conversations are changing, and so is what ‘good trade work’ looks like in green infrastructure, which matters because the work ahead is significant.… Continue reading
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This project included a variety of green walls, which were added to the scope of work for The Gardenmakers after the original contractor went into administration mid-build
By Lynne Testoni
A luxury landscape for a seniors’ living project features quality elements from the rooftop down.
A premium senior living development, The Langlee, was a construction project with multiple elements of soft landscaping, irrigation, maintenance and hard landscaping from the ground to the rooftops, including outdoor kitchens and firepits.… Continue reading
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Healthy, living soils develop recyclable biomass inputs back into their structure via living, ecological chains of integration (Image: Erik van Zuilekom)
By Erik van Zuilekom
Unlike built infrastructure that generally depreciates from day one, ecologically designed landscapes appreciate through biological compound interest. This temporal inversion, where gardens become more valuable, stable, and integrated over time, emerges when we design with succession rather than against it.… Continue reading
Read More![Old man saltbush (Atriplex nummularia) near Hay, New South Wales (Image: Thomas Mesaglio [thebeachcomber] via iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0)](https://hortjournal.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/1.-Atriplex_nummularia_Thomas_Mesaglio_iNat_CC-BY-SA-4.0-800x445.jpg)
Old man saltbush (Atriplex nummularia) near Hay, New South Wales (Image: Thomas Mesaglio [thebeachcomber] via iNaturalist, CC BY-SA 4.0)
By Clive Larkman
In my last article, ‘Saltbushes of the world’, I wrote about halophytes including mangroves, samphires and saltbush (Hort Journal Australia, February 2026). Like mangroves and samphires, saltbush occurs around the globe in a diverse range of climatic conditions.… Continue reading
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