Famous Australian people and landmarks on Burke’s Backyard
Monet’s garden at Giverny, about an hour from Paris, is a mecca for garden lovers. This garden’s most recognised feature is a painted wooden Japanese-style bridge, which is draped with wisteria (a white Japanese wisteria called Wisteria floribunda ‘Shiro...
The gardens of the Palace of Versailles are immense, covering about 1200 hectares (the botanic gardens in Sydney and Melbourne by way of comparison only occupy around 30 hectares). The central axis of the garden, which focuses on the palace, is 8km (five miles) long....
Lotusland is an amazing garden at Santa Barbara, California, about 90 minutes north of Los Angeles. It has a history which goes back over 100 years. The property, then known as
One of the finest examples of gardens dating from the Renaissance period in Italy is the Boboli Gardens in Florence. This extraordinary garden was built in the mid-16th century (1550-1580) for Cosimo de Medici. The gardens are laid out in a formal style with a strong...
May Moir’s Garden The late May Moir created a marvellous tropical garden in Hawaii called ‘Lipolani’. May designed the garden for privacy and to screen the house from passers by, but also to maintain the dramatic mountain views beyond. She developed...
If you want the ultimate wildflower experience you’ll find it in Western Australia, where beautiful and colourful wildflowers of all shapes and sizes bloom in both the arid, sandy interior and the beautiful south-western corner during spring. Everyone who travels...
One in 3000 babies is born with Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary disease that attacks the retina, or light-sensitive portion of the eye. There is no cure for the disease, which causes progressive loss of vision and total blindness in many cases. On Saturday...
Don visited Jane Garwood at her pavilion-style home in the Currumbin Valley, near Mt. Tomewin. Jane worked with architect, Jodie James, to design a house in keeping with the surrounding environment, and one that brings the natural beauty of the rainforest and garden...
Our program this week is about Australia
Built between 1835-1839, Elizabeth Bay House is a Greek Revival villa designed by John Verge for the Colonial Secretary, Alexander Macleay. Known in its day as ‘the finest house in the colony’ it features a domed oval saloon with a magnificent, sweeping...