To me it’s like watching the opening curtain at the opera, our very own version of magnolia grandiflora. I think I’ve been fascinated by Australian natives from when I was running around barefoot in ...

“I’ve never missed an early morning flower market in 30 years, and I’ve never slept in. Never,” says Saskia Havekes, owner of Sydney’s Grandiflora florist. Rising at 4am is something that Havekes has ...

She’s in the business of short-lived blooms: but Saskia Havekes’s Potts Point store is anything but transient. The first thing you notice when you cross the threshold at Grandiflora is the palpable ...

Accustomed as American gardeners are to planting so many plants from other regions, it comes as shock when a choice tree turns out to be a native. Particularly when it is as wondrous as the Magnolia ...