Catherine Stewart

About Catherine Stewart

Award-winning garden journalist and photographer, writer for garden magazines such as Backyard & Garden Design Ideas, Outdoor Design & LIving, and Gardening Australia, co-author of ‘Waterwise Gardening for Australia’. Creator, curator and editor of GardenDrum. Sydney, NSW

GardenDrum at TEDx Sydney

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Excitement! I will be one of 2,200 selected attendees at the 2013 TEDx event in Sydney on May 4. It will be huge day with 15 inspiring speakers from human rights and environmental activists to designers, scientists, architects, historians and geographers. And all fed with crowd-farmed food & any biodegradable waste composted. Can’t wait to become a ‘TEDhead’

Phillip Withers at MIFGS 2013 Melbourne FS – who dared to be different?

Last week’s Melbourne Flower Show was great fun but there were many similarities between most of the big display gardens. They were all very beautiful, very accomplished and very…..tasteful. As much as that’s lovely to look at, I did hanker after the days of Jenny Smith’s extraordinary 2008 homage to Martha Schwartz with its bizarre parade of painted tyres and gnomes, Rick Eckersley’s black and white garden or the very memorable “musk-sticks and burial mounds” (not my words) of Eco Concepts garden way back in 2004. Continue reading