Learn – Our History – The Diggers Club

On becoming a ‘tree tragic’

Clive Blazey traces the origins of his obsession with trees and recalls some of the early challenges of running a seed business.

Is Heronswood one of the world's finest gardens?

Australia is a very young and unsophisticated country in its gardening culture.

"It was then that I decided I wanted to create a garden as beautiful as the Melbourne Botanic Gardens."

The Diggers Club began 40 years ago just as that life-defining BBC programme called The Good Life was all the rage.

The support from our members has ensured that Diggers succeeded and our gardening magazine grew into Australia’s most popular.

Diggers has not used Roundup or nasty pesticides for over 20 years.