Famous Australian people and landmarks on Burke’s Backyard
Adobe Architecture, Aeroplane Graveyard, Decorated Car, Gila Monster, Hummingbirds, Lotusland, Martha Schwartz Design Garden, Prairie Dogs, Pueblo Indians, Rio Grande, Roadrunners, Route 66, Wild West. Adobe Architecture Many cultures have used adobe or mud brick...
Cloudehill Up 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 perennial borders, water features and...
Burke’s Backyard treasures finding some of Australia’s unique homes. Rita and Carmillo Russo’s house in Northcote, Melbourne, is one of these. It is completely covered with shells. The columns holding up the front veranda, window frames, garden...
‘Burke’s Backyard’ recently visited the superb Fairhill Native Nursery at Yandina on the Sunshine Coast, one and half hours north from Brisbane. Here can be found a large and comprehensive range of native plants including grevilleas, flannel flowers,...
Burke’s Backyard visited a couple whose garden was overflowing with statues. A similar effect could be created in any garden if desired. Further information Garden statues are available at specialist statue shops and from some nurseries. Crushed marble and white...
Friesia Garden ‘Friesia’ is a Victorian Italianate villa and garden which has been restored to reflect the character of the house and the time in which it was built. ‘Friesia’, which is owned by Warwick and Sue Forge, is in the Melbourne...
Tangled Maze – Qantas Amazing Australia The Tangled Maze at Creswick near Ballarat in Victoria is unlike most mazes throughout the world, which are constructed of evergreen cypress or other hedging. The walls of the Tangled Maze are made out of flowering...
Goulburn Roses Goulburn in New South Wales is two and half hours’ drive south of Sydney on the Hume Highway. Until recently it has been best known for the tourist attraction, the Big Merino. More recently it is becoming known as the City of Roses. The concept of...
Colin and Liana Joyce built their new brick house on a steep clay slope during a long, hot, dry spell. When it rained, the land began to erode, and water gushed out of the slope around and under the house, collecting in a distant quagmire at the bottom of the hill. To...
Don and the Burke’s Backyard team visited the 2003 Sydney Royal Easter Show. Highlights include the District Exhibits, fine food and wine displays, woodchopping, horses, cattle, dogs, cats, horticulture and arts and crafts. New things to see this year include...