It’s impossible to have too many and you can enjoy a supply of shallots year-round, writes Jackie French.
Hit the mute button for winter home wares
While the past couple of seasons have seen quite bright colours, it’s time to tone it down for the cooler months.
Solar House Day celebrates energy-efficient design, week two
Australian Institute of Architects in Canberra has put Solar House Day back in the spotlight after an absence of 30 years. This is week two of an ongoing series.
Solar House Day celebrates energy-efficient design
Australian Institute of Architects has put Solar House Day back in the spotlight after an absence of 30 years.
Modern architecture: perfect for film villains
Filmmakers have long known the power of domestic drama.
Plotlines: Guilfoyle's Volcano for succulents in the city
Guilfoyle's Volcano in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens is the setting for a lesson on how to propagate and plant succulents at home.
The horticultural history of Fawkner Memorial Park
Fawkner Memorial Park is a living monument to a century of gardening trends.
How to plant bulbs and watch them multiply
Like magic, a handful of these beauties will quickly turn into a mass of colour, Jackie French writes.
Pteridomaniacs fond of fronds
There’s a word for people who are crazy for ferns – pteridomaniacs. Pteridomania reached epidemic proportions in Victorian England. Ferns were everywhere: fronds unfurled over giant crinolines, along iron-work benches, on pottery and glassware and paper products. Ferns were grown indoors and out, in ferneries and fern houses. Men and women joined fern-gathering groups and tramped through the countryside collecting so enthusiastically that many of England’s 45 native species were threatened. Then the century turned, people rejected Victorianism and its passions and fern-love wilted. Time for a comeback.
More than just a plane: A Boeing-727 can also be a home
It might seem a bit odd to see a seemingly abandoned aircraft in the middle of a paddock, surrounded by trees.
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