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Crackling Paint How often do you wander through antique shops and know you can't afford to take any home? For a fraction of those prices you can achieve your own antiqued effects with a great...

Creeping Fig Hedge Don showed how to create a lovely, soft visual effect in the garden with a Clayton's hedge - the hedge you have when you don't really have a hedge. An ugly masonry fence along the...

Crushed SandstoneThe largest horticultural activity that has ever occurred in Australia's history is taking place at Homebush Bay in Sydney. The development of the Olympic Park and Millennium Parklands areas has...

Don visited Gabriel Rosati, who has a very curious water feature in her backyard. The sloping block was too small for a lap pool or a swimming pool, so Gabriel came up with the idea of a stream instead. But...

Cuttings UpdateGrowing your own plants from a cutting is one of the most satisfying things you can do when gardening. The cuttings can be taken during late spring and summer and grow readily. Plants that can...

Cymbidium Orchid TipsAlthough there are still a few weeks of winter to go, many plants for sale at nurseries are in full bloom. Cymbidium orchids in particular are looking spectacular. If the ones at your place...

Dangerous RootsOne of the most fashionable plants in Australia at the moment is Ficus benjamina, the weeping fig. Pots of standardised weeping figs clipped and shaped into balls on sticks can often be seen dramatically...

Watering the garden is a much more complex job than many people think. It is particularly difficult if your soil is water repellent (or hydrophobic), because the water just runs off instead of soaking into the soil....

Watering the garden is a much more complex job than many people think. It is particularly difficult if your soil is water repellent (or hydrophobic), because the water just runs off instead of soaking into the soil. These soils can...

Design the Perfect Backyard How do you create a backyard that works really well and also looks good? Well in the April edition of the Burke's Backyard magazine between pages 32 and 33 there's a free...