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Don's Landscaping Tips: Good Geometry The use of good geometry in garden design creates a spectacular formal courtyard in a small area. Matching the pinky-grey brick of the house with limestone pavers can give a natural looking backdrop for geometrically...

Don's Landscaping Tips: Homeworld HedgesEven if you're not thinking about building a house, display homes are great places to go and look for ideas. This applies to the outside of the property as well as the...

Don's Landscaping Tips: Outdoor Entertainment AreaFor many years pergolas have been fashionable in Australian backyards, either freestanding or attached to the back of the house. In theory if you plant deciduous climbers they'll grow over your pergola and give you...

Don's Landscaping Tips: Tiled Courtyard All too often backyards have a boring sameness about them, but recently Don visited a garden which dares to be different. When designer John Happ first saw the house, he knew that it was important...

Don's Landscaping Tips: Window View Windows are essential in houses to let in light and fresh air. But a problem that is common to old and new houses is when a window looks straight out onto a fence or straight...

Drab to Fab Makeover Elevated decks are common in Australian homes but creating a garden underneath the deck can be challenging to the average gardener. Dry and shady conditions limit the range of plants which...

This garden at a terrace house in Paddington, Sydney, was planted only three months ago. Designer Ted Whitley chose a clever mix of colourful natives, exotics, grasses and succulents with strong contrasting foliage. These hardy plants require a...

Dust Bowl to Daintree Don visited a suburban back garden which was looking like a dust bowl disaster and was in need of a complete renovation. The main existing problems were:...

Evan and Sonja's Garden Melbourne landscaper, Evan Gaulke, enjoyed the challenge of designing his own garden on a small, steep corner block. Evan loves gardens that are fun, interesting and free flowing, rather than very formal gardens that...

Exotic Bali Garden Australian gardens in the 1950s and 1960s were simple areas of lawn with few interesting plants. These days gardens have become places of fantasy where people create a bit of theatre in...