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Australian houses, from architectural masterpieces to suburban family homes, Victorian terraces, mid-century marvels, coastal shacks, city apartments, and everything in between.
Award-winning Australian architecture, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top architects.
Award-winning Australian interior design, inspiring homes, and interviews with Australia’s top designers.
In depth features on Australia’s most beautiful gardens and landscape design.
Studio visits with Australia’s most talented creatives, from artists to architects, ceramicists to stylists, furniture makers to lighting designers.
Studio visits with Australia’s top artists, and unmissable art exhibitions in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and beyond.
Weekly recipes and meal ideas from our favourite cooks, authors and foodies.
Unique travel destinations, design-led accomodation and day trip ideas in Australia and New Zealand.
Today's guest blog is so charming that I've just made a note in my calendar for next year to buy and plant sweet peas! Thank you Melanie for sharing such an inspiring and beautiful story with us. - Jenny x
I have to admit I'm pretty chuffed with my sweet peas this year, these babies are my pride and joy at the moment and if you think they just look pretty, think again... if only you could smell through the internet. People always ask me what me favorite flower is and I pretty much change my mind daily... if you asked me today I would most definitely say sweet pea.
If you are serious about sweet peas you HAVE to grow them from seed and you HAVE to remember to do this in the middle of the winter... That's the hard bit - after that it's easy, put them in the ground and wait for them to grow. I get my seeds from the Diggers Club.
I love this place, they have one of Australia's largest range of heirloom vegetable, flowers and fruit plants. When you are a member you receive a seed catalogue six times a year and just leafing through it gets me all excited about what heirloom veggie's or flowers I could grow next. Take that Monsanto.
If you speak the language of flowers... (it's easy to learn) you would know that every good sweet pea whispers on the spring winds, songs of blissful pleasure, sweet good-byes, and gracious thank you's for a lovely time. Can you think of a better flower to give someone!?
I'm a being a total ballet mum over these little sweeties dancing in the spring breeze.
- Melanie x
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