Do gardens have memories?

Surging opposition in India by grassroots groups, farmers and activists is putting the heat on corporate biopirates.

With burgeoning international trade, weeds and pests are gaining free passage around the globe, but gardeners are far from guilt-free when it comes to the spread of problem plants.

The complex interactions between plants, insects and birds are often ignored in horticultures quest for the latest flower fashion.

What inspires gardeners to take the sometimes rough and overgrown road that is organics?

While we tend and treasure our gardens, wondrous forests are clear-felled.

What a weird welcome the 20th century gave the Wollemi Pine Helicopters, film crews, maximum security, the hard glare of laboratory lights.

To GM or not to GM, that is the urgently asked question.

Australia is vast, so let’s continue south on our spring quest.

In the early 1970’s, at the tender age of 16, I went in quest of my first book on organic gardening.