Scientists at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia have discovered a gene in an ancient Australian native tobacco plant that they say is the key to growing crops in space. The ...

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 ...

With reports of water conservation on the rise, Australian and South African native plants are developing a fast following in Southern California. On a recent bus trip sponsored by Digadirt Tours, a ...

A species of Australian native plant related to kangaroo paws has been named after the humble rotary clothesline.

New research has found that Australian native rushes Phragmites australis, Juncus kraussii, and Baumea articulata could remove up to 53% of PFAS (per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances) contaminants ...

It sounds like a gardener's holy grail: beautiful and practical plantings that can turn cities into green spaces with benefits for people and biodiversity.

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, ...

An afternoon stroll by a nursery owner and her friend has turned up a new species of banksia that authorities are now working hard to protect. Jacki Koppman and Suellen Harris spied the ...

As the world reels from the rising number of cases of COVID-19 disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, an Australian scientist, Prof. Peter Waterhouse from Laboratory of Molecular Genetics (LMG) at Queensland ...

As Gardening Australia's longest-serving presenter, Jane Edmanson says farewell and shares the secrets behind the success of ...