Gardening Styles and Feature

Jamie Durie designed this minimalist, Australian contemporary garden overlooking the Pacific Ocean. His brief was to incorporate a swimming pool,... read more

Garden designer Mark Vowles has transformed a bare block of land at Deception Bay, Queensland, into a lush, tropical garden.... read more

Greek Style Courtyard When garden designer Matthew Cantwell first saw the courtyard shown in our segment, it was ugly and... read more

Indian Goddess Garden In 1996 Julia Wright wrote to Burke’s Backyard asking for help with the landscaping nightmare that she... read more

Japanese Garden Although many Australians dream of living near the beach, gardening by the seaside can be quite a challenge.... read more

Retired opera singer Maureen Williams and her husband Frank own one of the finest Japanese-style gardens in Australia. It was... read more

Don transformed an ugly, useless part of the garden into a fabulous feature area complete with colourful plants, a spectacular... read more

Don looked at a contemporary Balinese-style house and garden designed to work beautifully with the warm, Queensland climate. Architect Paul... read more

The latest trend in garden design in Australia is to create ‘theatrical’ gardens, which often contain elements from other countries... read more

Spaceship Garden Dallas Kampe finished building his house in 1985. At that time the garden was bare, except for a... read more

Teese Garden Nurseryman, Barry Teese, showed Don around his garden, which is set amongst the rolling green hills of an... read more

Toowoomba Rock Garden We first saw the fabulous rock garden built by Ben and Mavis Mundey in August 1998. From... read more