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Summer at Paul Bangay’s Garth Cottage | Diary of an English garden

After decades of drawing inspiration from English gardens, renowned Australian landscape designer Paul Bangay finds a cottage garden of his own to reinvent in the Cotswolds. Summer at Garth Cottage is a season of rapid change in the garden.

Heart-shaped fresh fruit tart served on colourful plate and table

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Fresh fruit tart

This fresh fruit tart, by Peta Mathias, pairs sweet short pastry with creamy custard and plenty of seasonal fruit, with tonka bean adding a subtle hint of vanilla, cherry and cinnamon.

Peaches Poached in Pinot Noir served on white china plate

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Peaches poached in pinot noir

This elegant, aromatic summer dessert is deeply delicious, especially with the addition of tonka beans. These beans are from South America and taste like a combination of vanilla, cinnamon and caramel.

Middle eastern fattoush served on colourful platter

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Fattoush

A Lebanese classic with plenty of tang and crunch. This Fattoush from Supper Club by Peta Mathias is a clever way to turn day-old bread into something fresh, bright and full of flavour.

Books, People

The five-line drawing | Meditations of a Landscape Architect

The five-line drawing. This piece is from Meditations of a Landscape Architect, which brings together observations, stories and digressions made by David Irwin through four decades of landscape architecture and urban design practice in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Capsicum & cannellini panzanella tray bake

What you’ll love about this tray bake, besides the ‘set and forget’ of it, is that you probably already have most of the ingredients in your pantry.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Chat potatoes + green beans + smoked trout + B ’n’ B pickle dressing

‘Chat’ potatoes, as they’re known in Australia, are new-season baby potatoes that hold their shape well. Use them in a late spring / early summer potato salad, where fork-sized bits of everything good to eat and good for you come together with a delicious dressing.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Hawker-style red curry eggplant noodle soup

Rich, warming and packed with flavour, this recipe from Weeknights by Alice is a midweek-friendly take on a laksa-style broth.

Vegetable garden in Martinboriugh - Glendower

Gardens, People

Working with the wild

At Glendower, a historic Martinborough property now open to the public, Jen Pudney has spent years uncovering an old garden while allowing a new one to evolve. Increasingly, that means making space for butterflies, insects and the plants that find their own way in.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Layered spanakopita

Instead of a coil, this is a lazier, more village style of spanakopita, but it still has the filo layers to give that classic bite and feel.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Turkish grain salad

A grain salad is super nutty from the toasted seeds, with pops of sweetness from the currants, and a vinaigrette to bring it all together. It’s a wonderful all-rounder.

Gardening Series, Guides

October gardening guide | Feeding, sowing & planting in your mid-spring garden

Feeding, sowing & planting in mid spring. What to do & plant in your garden in October.

Books

Toutouwai / robin | The bushman’s friend

With the karure / black robin winning Aotearoa's 2026 Bird of the Year, we take a look at the history and meaning of New Zealand’s robin – with Robert Vennell, Song of the Birds.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Roasted cauliflower, quinoa + smashed green olive salad

The perfect pack-and-go salad, ideal for lunches, pot-lucks, lunch and dinner. High-protein quinoa and golden roasted cauliflower form the base, along with pops of salty smashed olives, toasted almonds and a generous amount of herbs.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Lemon + oregano roasted potato salad with feta + rocket

This is a lovely substantial salad that travels well, which is a bonus over the summer months when pot-luck dinners are peaking!

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Fennel, orange + halloumi salad with chilli honey dressing

The classic pairing of finely shaved fennel bulb with orange is not one that will ever go out of fashion! Here I’ve boosted the flavour further with an Aleppo pepper-flecked dressing.

Books, Guides, How-to

How to: Charles Dowding’s no-dig gardening

Natasha Morgan breaks down Charles Dowding's no-dig gardening practice of building and protecting healthy soil as a living structure.

Books, Guides

A simple spring guide to growing vegetables | Early spring gardening tips with Sarah O’Neil

Spring gardening – What to do now, how to get started and seed sowing advice from vegetable gardener Sarah O'Neil (Sarah the Gardener)

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Passionfruit & coconut bombe alaska

Traditional alaskas use a cake, but this one has crunchy coconut cookie scattered throughout and swirl some jammy passionfruit too!

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Honey-poached quince

If we cook a quince less than usual, to golden yellow with a burgeoning blush of palest orange, the fruit has fresh-flavoured charm with soft acidic notes, similar to fresh poached pears or cooked apple.

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Flourless almond & mandarin cakes

Natalia Paull's twist on Claudia Roden's OG orange and almond cake recipe.

Gardening Series, Guides

The spring overview | Spring gardening guide

Feeding, sowing & planting. What to do & plant in your garden in spring.

Strawberry and White Chocolate Shortcake recipe by Allyson Gofton

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Strawberry & white chocolate shortcake

As featured in GIVE by Allyson Gofton, this sweet and indulgent strawberry and white chocolate shortcake is a must-try. Recipe by New Zealand fashion designer Biddie Cooksley.

Aubergine, Garlic and Date Chutney recipe by Allyson Gofton

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Aubergine, garlic and date chutney (Brinjal chutney)

A richly spiced aubergine, garlic and date chutney, perfect alongside an Indian meal, on a platter or however you choose to serve it.

Cherry Tomato and Chilli Jam recipe by Allyson Gofton

Books, Recipes

Recipe | Cherry tomato and chilli jam

A sweet and spicy cherry tomato and chilli jam recipe from New Zealand fashion designer Vicki Taylor.

Andy Murray Landscape Design X Sage Journal - Preston

Gardens

A free-spirited perennial garden in Melbourne

Guides

August gardening guide | Late winter gardening

Spring is on it’s way! Though we’re not there yet. Late winter storms still work hard for us in the garden - the heavy rains are cleaning up unwelcome insect life around the garden, the winds are removing dead debris and leaves from trees and tidying the garden. Nature is at work.

Coastal Garden in Inverloch - Victoria Australia

Books, Gardens

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