Letter from Julia
Dear garden friend,
Unearthed. was launched as a subscription-based online magazine in 2023, about 4 months before my husband and I drastically decided to upend our lives, buy a little butchery (with no previous experience) in a gorgeous village on Banks Peninsula- our favourite place in the world.
This new adventure required my full input and involvement so I made the difficult decision to refund subs and open up Unearthed. where it could remain as a sporadically updated garden-based blog and archive for all interested gardeners until I once again return to my passion!
Telling the stories of others is ingrained in me as a blogger of 16 years, columnist and author of 3.5 gardening books! So I WILL be back, and with the purchase of a lovely little valley home and a new garden to inch toward my new vision, there will updates here again soon.
In the meantime, please explore and enjoy the shared knowledge here, roaming gardens from both down under and the northern lands!
Nothing changes if nothing changes.
Julia xoxoxoxoxo
Latest Features
THE POLLINATION GARDENER
This passion that I have for capturing my garden’s moments of magic leaves me very aware and exposed to the way others document their spaces, and the work of Mel Adams has me entirely enthralled.
Enjoy this lovely peek into a photography practice that grew from the depths of Covid isolation and find inspiration to wander your own beds with phone/camera in hand.
PAPER NATURE
Colleen Southwell’s delicate paper creations mirror this concept and more. As a horticulturalist, garden designer and rural woman, her gardened spaces and wider environment have infiltrated her need to create and the results are truly original and achingly beautiful.
Her concentration on form beyond colour zooms us into the fascinating architecture of nature’s specimens, offered to us as if a frozen moment in time.
NATURE INSPIRED JEWELLERY BY SOPHIE DIVETT
Sophie Divett had been on my radar for a few years before I eagerly walked through the doors of her Christchurch studio. My heartstrings pinged as I connected with her obvious subject matter but also the imperfect, hand-formed aesthetic that runs through all of her beautiful products.
