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🎙️ [RNZ with Jess Mulligan] Gardening with Emma Sage

🎙️ Super Creative Podcast - Conversation with Emma Sage

NZ Herald: Emma Sage: The Gardener Inspiring A New Generation To Get Growing With Sage Journal

How Canterbury gardener Kate Williams creates her flower field each season

How to feed your soil & plants in spring

A Sydney garden created with the whole family in mind

10 border plants to add to your garden this spring

The Garden of the Future | Growing hope in a changing climate

Waxgills Gliophorus | A hidden world of New Zealand fungi | Sage Journal

Finding balance | Thirty years of change at Whistling Green

The enduring garden at The Elms | Te Papa Tauranga

October gardening guide

5 blossoming trees to add to your garden for spring

How to design a garden & create a planting palette for your garden

Sowing summer annual flowers & edible succession sowing

The Oaks Garden | Meadows & woodland plantings beneath historic canopies

Brown brick & green edges | A Brunswick garden that embraces its past

Pruning hydrangeas: When & how to cut back different varieties

A painter’s palette | A garden of gentle colour at The Blue House

How to grow dahlias from seed

Wintering well | Growing flowers, herbs & bulbs indoors during winter

August Gardening Guide

A woodland-inspired coastal garden in Takapuna

Living mulch: A smarter way to garden

A family garden in Victoria with global influence

A winter garden gathering | Celebrating 5 years of Sage Journal with Kath Irvine

From prison to possibility | Jo Thompson's Glasshouse Garden

A simple guide to soil mixes & amendments

Where Saint Remy’s Seam Lam and Cam Gilmour test ideas, plants & patience

Designed to challenge perceptions & celebrate difference | The Down’s Syndrome Scotland Garden at Chelsea

A mid-century garden in Ōtūmoetai with its own gin garden

A new crop | How a Marlborough farming family blends cut flower & traditional farming

The best hedges & screening plants for privacy and beauty

Restoring Kaikōmako | The garden that sparked the Secret Gardens garden-share platform

July Gardening Guide | Winter Gardening

Winter plant picks | What do landscape designers choose for winter planting?

Monty Don’s Dog Garden at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 🐕

A garden for pollinators & first-time gardeners | Medal-winning garden

Restoring Kaikōmako | The garden that sparked the Secret Gardens garden-share platform

A garden created for garden-loving retirees in Oatlands, Sydney

A textural garden that connects work, life & landscape in rural Christchurch

How to compost | A practical guide to hot & cold composting methods

Preparing dahlias for winter | A guide to digging & storing dahlia tubers

A productive urban garden called Ngā Kaupeka | Autumn insights from a Secret Gardener

A reimagined Middle Park warehouse | A Melbourne home with six garden spaces

How to grow, prune & care for raspberries

Bringing order to chaos | A professional garden designer’s own garden

How to plant, propagate & prepare perennials for dormancy

How to grow pansies & violas in the garden or containers

Golden light & generations of growth | Insights from a Secret Gardener in Hāwea

Fields, family & the garden in between | A rural NSW garden

How to harvest & store pumpkins and potatoes

A Californian garden reimagined | Layering landscape, lifestyle & architectural legacy in Coronado

Autumn insights from Secret Gardeners in Canterbury

Everything you need to know about growing & caring for dahlias

How to grow garlic | A homesteader’s guide to growing garlic

Plant buying guide | How to make the most of autumn plant sales

A native garden revival for this Australian heritage home

A dahlia grower’s autumn checklist | How to prolong dahlia flowers & prep tubers for next season

The pros & cons of keeping chickens in an urban backyard

From backyard to book | Kimberly Andrews on her children's book

The Remuera garden with coastal planting & floating 'lily pad' decks

6 interesting edible fungi to find in Aotearoa

Mid autumn gardening | A quick task rundown

Autumn reflections from a historic homestead gardener in Martinborough

How to get rid of rats and mice in the garden

How to harvest & save seeds

A Northcote home with a garden view from every room

How to create a tulip pot display for spring

Tending a country garden in autumn | Insights from a Secret Gardener

Pottering about the potager | A Waimate cottage garden

A complete guide to planting & growing spring bulbs

How to grow strawberries from runners

Autumn seed sowing guide | Vegetables & flowers to sow in autumn

Sowing success | Autumn seed sowing tips

A garden designed to thrive in the northern Sydney beach town of Clareville

The people behind the gardens: Our most-loved stories of 2024

'Tussock' | Landscape architect Louise Dunning Morrow’s Marlborough family garden

Fire & steel: Elevating a modest courtyard in the Macedon Ranges

Exploring secret gardens: The story behind the UK’s G&T Garden Tours

Top 10 garden-to-table recipes of 2024

Designed for the elements | A resilient coastal garden on Raumati Beach

Cut & come again annual flowers to sow & plant for autumn colour

Mother Ocean | A garden inspired by the power & change of the sea

Best growing advice of 2024 | Top 10 garden guides

A family garden in Moonee Ponds designed to blend beauty and purpose

How to grow & keep your sweet peas flowering all summer long

10 gardens bursting with beauty & inspiration | Top 10 of 2024

The Blairgowrie Hideaway | A coastal retreat in Victoria

Textured fields | Layers of colour beneath the gums

Gifts for Gardeners: Gift guide 🎁

A cottage garden in Central Victoria inspired by the English country landscape

Pollinator articles 🐝

The Amber Project | An elegant, evolving garden for an active family

How to create an edible garden | A Floral Feast

Whānau, I te ao, I te pō — A family estate for fun, friendships and joy

How to create a pollinator-friendly garden

How to make a bug hotel

A family garden in Melbourne that was inspired by a previous life in NYC

A Remuera garden of cascading greenery

A seasonal living canvas shaped for a growing family | Landscape architect Paul Roper-Gee’s Christchurch garden

How to propagate plants from cuttings in spring

For Sale | Tauranga property with English-inspired gardens and river valley views is on the market

The transformation of a coastal garden | Auckland Garden Designfest spotlight

A landscape of luxury and legacy | Clifton Glamping

A permaculture way of gardening | The ethics & principles of permaculture

A large-scale vegetable garden and permaculture project that brings a community together

The inflorescence Havelock North garden brimming with colour & texture

The best of both worlds | A garden that blends tradition with modernity

A season of growth | The life of artist Mollie Howard

How to grow dahlias from cuttings

Habour views | A lush, lawnless forever garden in Lyttelton

Garden-centric cuisine | St Georges garden-to-table restaurant

How and when to dig & divide dahlia tubers

Propagating plants: How to propagate perennials by division

A vibrant reconnection from home to garden

More Salad | Two Raw Sisters Recipes

11 Annuals for Spring | Colourful Blooming Flowers for Spring

Blurring boundaries | Japanese-inspired woodland garden

Winter showstoppers | What to plant for your winter garden

A rural cottage garden with sentimental significanc

From the gully to garden | Creating a native haven at home in Wellington

Sky-high sustainability | The Danish rooftop urban farming success story

Going to ground | Winter garden task list

Potted colour | Plant combos for winter & spring pots

August Harvest + Cheesy leek and spicy cauliflower pasta recipe

Creating year-round interest in a compact Scottish garden

The Pegasus Bay Gardener | Cultivating the expansive grounds of a North Canterbury winery

How to sow perennial seeds in milk bottles

How to grow & care for Rudbeckia (Coneflowers)

How to improve & prepare your soil for planting

Gardening as an art form | Super Bloom

Creating a garden of beauty, softness & scent for botanical skincare brand owne

Salvias | The ultimate guide to growing salvia plants

Nurturing the land | Jannine Rickards on gardening, winemaking & kaitiakitanga

Gardening with kids | 9 ideas to involve children in the garden

The best of both worlds | A garden crafted to balance privacy and a greater connection to the community

Four gardens | A family's architectural Sydney home

The importance of soil | How to develop good soil with organic matter

Foraging for: Rengarenga & Hostas

Enchanted wilderness | A natural wonderland in Browns Bay, Auckland

Eco-conscious enthusiasm | The garden that once was a concrete parking area

Seaside serenity | The island farmhouse with English-cottage & modern-wild gardens

An Asian-inspired sub-tropical garden in Herne Bay

The London parking space that was converted to a contemporary courtyard garden

The Central Otago homesteader who grows, harvests, preserves & hosts tourists

From urban plot to rural refuge | The Pomeroys’ journey to country living & abundant gardening

Perpetual blooms | A small London courtyard’s endless charm

A Mid Canterbury edible garden designed for hospitality & self-sufficiency

A Mediterranean and coastal-styled Haitaitai garden

13 Low-growing perennial plants for your garden border

The home with garden walls | Garden Wall House

A hosting haven in Howick: Gardenias, guests & golf

Mountains & mānuka | Olivia Bird Design

Wellington Garden | Secret Gardens of Aotearoa

How to find and identify fungi forms

How to grow & dry flowers for dried flower arrangements

The creation of a country cottage garden | Ashley James Gardens – Sage Journal

The Chambers | Jared Lockhart Design

34 Drought-Tolerant Plants for Dry Gardens

18 Flowering Perennials That Bloom All Summer Long

Villa Garden with Modern Tropical Twist

Deadly Ponies Store — Jared Lockhart Design

Te Whare Māra : The Garden House

How to Propagate Perennials by Division

A Bug’s Life — Tauranga’s Urban Insect Haven

How to: Create a Pollination Garden

Reweaving Plants & People — Liv Worsnop

Chaos & Restoration — Camilla Jørvad

Hotel’s Hillside Garden — Sherwood, Queenstown

Riverbank 1965: Wild & Woolly in Waikanae

How to: Build a Raised Garden Bed

How to Plant, Grow & Harvest Potatoes

How to Grow & Care for Hellebores (Winter Roses) — Sage Journal

Artfully Green: A Weekend Away at Black House Studio, Gisborne

How to Grow & Care for Peonies

Designing Your Vegetable Garden: The Best Place for a Garden

A timeless, lawnless Melbourne garden

A Beginner’s Guide to Foraging

Planting in Guilds: Permaculture Guild Combos

How to: Create a Thriving Edible Backyard — Kath Irvine

When Japanese, contemporary and ‘cottage garden’ influences collide

9 Magnificent Gardens That Amazed Us This Year

How to: Create a Wild “Cottage” Garden