Climate change is coming for your hydrangeas and rhododendrons – what do you do now?
ABC / Gardeners

Climate change is coming for your hydrangeas and rhododendrons – what do you do now?

ABC Radio National / By Smriti Daniel for Blueprint for Living Paul Bangay knows climate change is real. Over 35 years as a celebrated gardener and landscape designer, Bangay has seen the shift happen before his very eyes. When he began working in the 1980s, climate change still wasn’t something that was widely discussed. “Climate change has really come to … Continue reading

Laki Senanayake: Laki’s owls all flock together
Artists / Gardeners / Painters / Poets / Sculptors / The Sunday Times

Laki Senanayake: Laki’s owls all flock together

Pic courtesy Dominic Sansoni–three blindmen photography Laki and his owls: he’s lost track of how many he’s sketched, sculpted and painted into life but the closest you’ll ever come to seeing them in the same place is in a book launched last week. ‘Laki’s Book of Owls’ delivers exactly what the title promises and catalogues … Continue reading

Designers / Gardeners / Innovators / Painters / The Sunday Times

Laki Senanayake: Far from the Maddening Crowd

Dressed in his regulation sarong and t-shirt, Laki Senanayake looks like there are few things he takes seriously – certainly, he doesn’t count his reputation as an ‘artist’ among them. “I’m assured by various people…that I’m Sri Lanka’s leading artist – God knows where I’m leading anyone,” he says, grinning. We meet Laki at Barefoot, … Continue reading