"We need to keep all English publications at arms length and embrace the Southern Hemisphere. We live in a climate in which gardens can look good for 12 months of the year"

Better Homes & Gardens "Aussie Garden of The Year 2002"
(960kb pdf)"

"Drought-tolerant, low-maintenance planting at Wigandia, twice voted Australia’s best garden, may well be the way forward for this increasingly water-conscious nation,
asserts GEOFFREY BURNIE " 

"We visit William Martin, the creator of Wigandia. Located halfway up Mt Noorat in Victoria, the garden has been designed as a direct response to the drought and dry climate of Australia, in fact 99% of the garden survives on rainfall alone. It's about a tough planting concept where only plants that fit in that location and in those climatic conditions have been included in the scheme. Plants are put into this garden and then left to their own accord. The ones that survive drive the style and form of this magnificent garden. The ones that die… well, they die."

"Aussie gardeners are becoming increasingly confident about the use of ornament in their gardens. Time was when the only non horticultural decorations one saw in gardens were in older houses were white-painted cement statues, often limbless, of female figures......."

'Your Garden' Garden of The Year 1999
(1.7mb pdf)

"Expanding Aesthetic Boundaries of Australian Garden Design" by Georgia Harvey