With a growing reputation for creating gardens that draw from the beauty of the Australian landscape, what is Phillip Johnson’s own garden like? Meredith Kirton went on a trip up the mountainside outside Melbourne to take a look.

The city falls away in this tranquil bushland garden only a 10-minute drive from Melbourne’s CBD.

Out in the ‘burbs of Buderim, Queensland, a neighbourhood has banded together to reinvent their streets as edible gardens.

A collector’s bounty of “lost world” garden influences graces the new contemporary garden taking root alongside a stunning architectural renovation in one of Melbourne’s most iconic suburbs – St Kilda.

The rain doesn’t fall much in California so ditching the lawn in favour of less water-hungry plants makes sense. Particularly when the replacement is as creative as this front garden.

With beautiful dimensions but completely closed off from the house, a large patio in Mexico City has been stunningly brought to life.

The organic garden attached to Queenstown’s Sherwood boutique hotel not only influences the delicious whole food menu of the restaurant, it is itself attached to a popular slalom bike track. Talk about multi-purpose.

Who doesn’t love a spectacular cactus collection? We visited one of the best on the long, hot highway out of Dubbo.

A robust concrete and timber house in Toorak is wedded to its steeply sloping site by a bold terraced garden, which softens hard architectural edges and creates a friendly front entrance via a lush veggie patch-come-orchard.

The classic division between in and out-of-doors falls away in this tranquil north-facing dwelling, where the owners’ twin love for Japanese aestheticism and 1950s modernism led the design.