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Tropical Top End One of the most spectacular forms of modern housing in Australia is the marina home, snaking their way around artificial canals. Burke's Backyard recently visited a Darwin home that is a truly magnificent example of canal...

Tugurium Stephen Ryan and Craig Lidgerwood showed Don around 'Tugurium', their cool climate garden at Macedon in Victoria. Many Victorian's know Stephen as a gardening author and broadcaster, as well as a nursery owner. He is the proprietor...

Using Green Bird's Nest or Crow's Nest ferns (Asplenium australasicum) are lovely plants which are easy to use in the garden. Don Burke suggests using them creatively in a jungle setting. Experiment at the local nursery by mixing around...

There are hundreds of sensational Australian native plants available to home gardeners these days, so it's not surprising that they're undergoing a whole new wave of popularity. Natives first rose to prominence through the 1960s and 70s, but...

Vibrant Garden This vibrant garden gives a contemporary image to an inner-suburban Victorian style home. There is a traditional structure to the garden reminiscent of Versailles but it is composed of brightly coloured materials, pebbles and columns. The simple...

War of the Roses Gardens are often restful places where people can relax, take a break from the stresses of everyday life and be at one with nature. However, when Don visited the Melbourne home of Joanne and...

Water GardenLandscape Arthitect, Judy van Gelderen was given a very detailed brief by the owners of a small, flat and uninteresting block of land in Canberra. They wanted to incorporate fourteen different ‘spaces’ or characters, including Japanese, Australian, an English...

Water Pots There's nothing quite like a water feature in the garden because it always looks wonderful. Whether it's a large water lily pond like Monet's garden at Giverny, a Chinese network of water features or fountains and waterfalls...

Janet Dangerfield asked landscape designer Andrew Quixley to come up with a design for her courtyard that was 'different', and that would arouse all the senses. The result is a fabulous water theatre, which Don...

Wayne's Waterfall Sue Tapping dreamed of having a waterfall in the garden, so Wayne, her husband, spent 10 months building a magnificent water feature in their backyard. It is constructed on three levels, with water cascading down in...