Stephen Forbes details a list of 20 trees, both native and imported, that have found great success in the gardens and parks of the Adelaide Plains.…
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Greenspace: Running for Cover in the Garden City
As Adelaide aims to be the world’s first carbon neutral city, Stephen Forbes considers the value of greenspace in urban landscapes and what more can be do…
Greenspace: Delving into the Daffodil Gap
There are few flowers as bright and joyous as daffodils. Perhaps our relationship with daffodils reflects their appearance in late winter and is coloured by pro…
Greenspace: Art and Utility Make Plants Essential to Humanity
So much of our relationship with plants we take for granted. However, the role of plants in individual and community health and wellbeing deserves urgent attent…
The Story of Plant Foods: Luxury to Commonplace
Over the centuries plant foods have risen and toppled as favourites of the masses. What makes a food popular, and where do the trends come from?…
Greenspace: The Corpse Flower is a ‘Misshapen Penis’
This month’s Greenspace looks at a rather curiously named genus of plant, the Amorphophallus, or ‘misshapen penis’.…
Greenspace: Every Fifth Breath
While acknowledging that some botanists might disavow algae as plants, I’m still inclined to corral them into Greenspace – after all they do have chlorophyll.…
The Good Gardener
A British court considered whether land from which the owner had cleared trees constituted a garden (in which case the owner’s action was legal) or not (in whic…
Lilac time
Lilacs are one of my favourite flowers. The wonderfully fragrant flowers borne at the ends of branches contrast perfectly with the glossy, dark-green heart-shap…
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Controlled patience – beauty & truth…