Sam and Dianne’s Garden Dianne and Sam Chi have lovingly developed their 2-hectare (5 acre) garden over the past 21 years. Today it is a wonderful blend of both English and oriental influences. It features sweeping lawns, ponds, fountains, a large ornamental...
Spaceship Garden Dallas Kampe finished building his house in 1985. At that time the garden was bare, except for a few wattle trees growing on the property. Inspired by his love of tropical gardens and several trips to South-East Asia, Dallas began collecting plants...
Teese Garden Nurseryman, Barry Teese, showed Don around his garden, which is set amongst the rolling green hills of an Angus cattle farm. This beautiful garden owes its success to good drainage and the selection of reliable plants for cold and wet winters. As a...
Toowoomba Rock Garden We first saw the fabulous rock garden built by Ben and Mavis Mundey in August 1998. From 1984-91, Ben and Mavis made 131 trips collecting rocks for their garden from mountainous grazing land in the region. They broke the bigger rocks up into...
Two years ago, Graeme Greenhalgh designed this garden for a client who wanted to be reminded of her childhood in Papua New Guinea. It consists of two small courtyards packed with as many different lush, tropical foliage plants as possible. This modern-looking garden...
Tropical Lagoon Garden Burke’s Backyard viewers often write in and ask for tips and ideas on landscaping effectively around a swimming pool. In our segment Don looked at a wonderful example of a pool garden in Balmoral, Queensland. It was designed by Phillip...
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 of...
Don looked at a contemporary, Japanese-style garden at Noosa, on Queensland’s Sunshine Coast. Local landscape designers Anne-Marie and Dror Barkai designed the garden to add interest to a stark, white, modular building. Their solution to a difficult design...
Don looked at two low maintenance gardens designed by Ted Whitley, of Sacred Grove Gardens in Sydney. Ted has combined native and succulent plant varieties to achieve year-round visual appeal, while minimising the work involved in maintaining them. Paddington...
The design of Sherrie and Nathan Fawle’s garden was based on an article they read in the October 2001 edition of the Burke’s Backyard Magazine. Their garden is still under construction, but stage one, the courtyard area, is complete. The result is...