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

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THE STONES
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THE STONES

There is an abundance to be learned from this story, in particular the importance of letting the environment inspire planting as opposed to dreamy optimism and the punishment that follows. ‘The Stones’ walks a beautiful line of ‘the garden curtsying to the house’ while introducing refreshing, modern approaches of combining architectural succulents with soft grasses and specimen trees.

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THE GARDEN OF ANN-MAREE WINTER
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THE GARDEN OF ANN-MAREE WINTER

Explore the highly textured and vibrant seasonal planting by Ann-Maree Winter in her Mornington Peninsula garden. Through her in-depth sharing, discover the gentle changing display as the seasons progress along with the challenges she found in creating shelter and drought-tolerant beds on the top of an exposed, clay-ridden slope.

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