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Don visited Amity Dry and Phil Rankine at their Sydney apartment, which has a waterfront garden and remarkable views across the harbour. Amity and Phil became household names as one of the four couples on...
In January this year, Sara Storer blitzed the Tamworth Country Music Awards by taking out seven Golden Guitars - more than anyone else in its 32 year history. Sara is performing all over the...
This weeks celebrity gardeners were described by the New York Times as being like Bugs Bunny and Elmer Fudd on the set of Terminator Three. Shane Dundas and David Collins met as drama students, got bored with the...
Chainsaw Mill In the days of the pioneers the wealth of hundreds of towns and families was built from wood. Those days are now gone but there is a new Australian-developed timber mill that is...
Chinese Art ShowPeter Valder gave us a guided tour of 'Fragrant Space', an exhibition of Chinese flower and bird paintings currently on display at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The paintings are on...
TAS: Sandra and Ron Dyson, 18 Lloyd Street, Ulverstone, Tasmania WA: John Roe, 22 Marriot Way, Morley VIC: Susan Jaffe, Rebecca and Patrick, 146 The Boulevarde, IvanhoeHelen and Don Kirwan, 44 Cornwall...
CloudehillUp in Melbourne's Dandenongs can be found the garden of Cloudehill. It is at Olinda, just an hour from Melbourne. This garden has been owned and developed by Jeremy Francis since 1990 with traditional herbaceous...
Just 10 minutes from Canberra city centre, Cockington Green is a fabulous display of miniature buildings and landscaped gardens. The small buildings are meticulously crafted on the premises. They are scale models of their full-size counterparts in Great Britain and...
Coconut Rodney has been growing coconuts for the last 20 years. In fact, he has become the local coconut identity, supplying green coconuts to restaurants and producing about 75 different coconut products, including coconut candles, coconut planting medium,...
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Crepe myrtle
At their best in the peak of summer, crepe myrtles are flwering deciduous trees and shrubs that put on a great show when the going is hot Click here for more