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Japanese Garden Although many Australians dream of living near the beach, gardening by the seaside can be quite a challenge. Not only are beach sites usually very windy, but the plants also have to cope with sandy soil...

Japanese Style Garden Don looked at a contemporary, Japanese-style garden at Noosa, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Local landscape designers Anne-Marie and Dror Barkai designed the garden to add interest to a stark, white, modular building. Their solution to...

Japanese Waterfall Garden Retired opera singer Maureen Williams and her husband Frank own one of the finest Japanese-style gardens in Australia. It was designed and built for the previous owners by Ken Lamb of Imperial Gardens, Sydney. His...

Jubilee Garden nestles at the foot of Mount Wellington in Hobart. On the day Burke's Backyard visited, the...

Laburnum Walk Structure and formality is returning to favour in gardens. Plants trained into hedges or along trellises or pergolas have become very fashionable. A pinnacle of garden achievement is a pleached walk. 'Burke's Backyard' recently visited a garden...

When you live in the tropics you can be very adventurous in your use of colours, both in the garden and inside the home. Don looked at an award winning house and garden in Cairns, where the bright...

Low Maintenance Gardens Don looked at two low maintenance gardens designed by Ted Whitley, of Sacred Grove Gardens in Sydney. Ted has combined native and succulent plant varieties to achieve year-round visual appeal, while minimising the work involved...

MacLean's Spring GardenTwelve years ago Jack and Margaret MacLean purchased half a hectare (1.25 acres) of land at Mittagong in the Southern Highlands of NSW. The property was on sheet rock covered by a thin layer...

Magazine Inspired GardenThe design of Sherrie and Nathan Fawle's garden was based on an article they read in the October 2001 edition of the Burke's Backyard Magazine. Their garden is still under construction, but stage one, the courtyard area,...

Don transformed an ugly, useless part of the garden into a fabulous feature area complete with colourful plants, a spectacular fish pond and a waterfall. One of the most important reasons for this makeover was that a large...