If you wanted to create a garden of nothing but Australian plants, you would have a cornucopia of beauties from which to choose. You could find ground covers, shrubs, and trees that flower ...

But for David, Australia’s almost 100 species of native mistletoe are worth celebrating all year round. “We’ve got representations of lineages [of mistletoe] that date right back to Gondwana days. So, ...

For Australia’s native guava, death came in the form of a fungus. Just 10 years ago, a virulent strain of the fungus Austropuccinia psidii arrived in New South Wales. First observed in Hawaii in 2005, ...

The female of the species has devil-like black horns, and a taste for extremely rare pollen. But until now, this Australian native bee has never been officially named or identified. My discovery of ...

For most people, mistletoe conjures images of wintry Christmas kissing traditions rather than the rich Australian landscape. In Australia, mistletoe varieties have often been overlooked or treated as ...

The craft of cultivating bonsai evolved from Japan with a focus on minituarising trees and plants. Recent enthusiasm for the world of tiny trees is seeing Australia's native flora re-imagined as ...

Christine Schlesinger has previously received funding from the Hermon Slade Foundation to conduct research on the impacts of buffel grass. Ellen Ryan-Colton has previously received funding from the ...

The suburban yard of Drake White’s San Antonio home doesn’t have what most yards have—grass. Instead, there are violet pillars of bluebonnets, pillowy white flowers blooming on jimsonweed, and ...