Blueprint For Living explores the things that help make for a good life: food, architecture, design, fashion, travel and issues that affect our personal well-being.

Sydney's Powerhouse Museum is entering the final weeks of its Eucalyptusdom exhibition — a show that explores the cultural relationship Australia has to the Eucalypt.

It's a species that has been on this continent for millions of years — and in the time that humans have co-existed alongside it — Eucalypts have become more than just trees.

They've become sites of resistance, national mythology, and even the genesis for museums like the Powerhouse.

Eucalyptusdom artist-in-residence Agatha Gothe-Snape and curator Sarah Rees join Jonathan.

Paul Bangay's Garden Rudimental: Lawns

Lawns are completely changing. The mown lawn down to a millimetre, and a big monoculture is largely disappearing from our plots and gardens.

Award-winning landscape designer Paul Bangay offers Jonathan lawn substitutes: from gravel to plants and garden beds.

Could this be the death of backyard cricket?

The future of Australia's urban tree canopies

Amid a rapidly warming climate, we know many things we've come to take for granted will change — this includes Australia's urban tree canopies.

Right now, researchers, councils and developers are all having to think about what trees, planted today, will survive a much warmer climate.

Jonathan explores this with Michelle Leishman, the lead researcher of the Which Plant Where project.

Colin Bisset's Iconic Designs: Thorncrown Chapel

Forests are places of otherness. Which is why they've long been used for human rituals of all kinds.

Like the weddings that take place in Thorncrown Chapel, a magical structure nestled among the trees of the Ozark Mountains in Arkansas. It's a building so attuned to its leafy setting that you might dismiss it as almost glib. And yet, since it opened in 1980, it's proved to be one of America's most popular, and even important buildings. It's certainly a showstopper.

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