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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,...

Colour HouseDon visited a house that was so bright and colourful he almost needed to wear sunglasses! The owners, Paul and Helen Dickson, bought their home nine years ago. At that time all the walls were painted a bland,...

Colour HouseBurke's Backyard recently visited the Sydney home of Isabella and Jack Klompé. When the Klompés purchased the site it consisted of a Federation house and a plumber's business with garages on the boundary. After bulldozing...

Don took a mangrove discovery tour in the Cape Tribulation area of the Daintree National Park. The Cape Tribulation Wilderness Cruise is the only tour boat permitted in this area, and provides exclusive access to 9 square kilometres...

Corkscrews Jim Pike visited the Delicate Nobby Camping Ground, near Crescent Head on the north coast of New South Wales, to catch up with Len Blacklow and his corkscrew collection. Len has a collection of 650 corkscrews and 550...

Cotterville A curving brick path leads through the small, lushly planted front garden of the Toorak terrace belonging to Howard Neil, called Cotterville. It is an inner city house and garden that brings colour and vibrancy to Melbourne, and...

Criss Canning Exhibition When Burke's Backyard visited David Glenn at Lambley Nursery in Victoria we also saw some of his wife, Criss Canning's artwork. Criss Canning has an exhibition of her paintings Reflecting on Still Life at the Gould...

Crown Casino Roof Garden Since its opening in 8 May 1997, Melbourne's Crown Entertainment Centre, better known as the Crown Casino, has received a lot of publicity yet one of its most interesting features is a well kept secret....

Jonothan Coleman visited Crufts, the biggest dog show in the world. This year's event was held at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham. History Crufts was named after Charles Cruft,...