Famous Australian people and landmarks on Burke’s Backyard
Chris and Geoff Ellis are FJ Holden fanatics. Over the years they’ve rebuilt and restored fifteen, including the six in the family at the moment. In May 1997 work began on a new project – they decided to stretch an FJ. They thought it would take...
Many of Australia’s early white settlers found it hard to appreciate the beauty of their new country. To them the bush was strange and harsh, and they longed for the lush, green countryside of England. The great painter Hans Heysen was also an immigrant, but he...
Tintagel in the UK is a dramatic hillside town, claimed to be the place of King Arthur’s Castle. Its namesake in Australia is a hillside property perched on Mt Gibraltar in the NSW Southern Highlands, owned by Geoff and Gayle Cousins. The property is dramatic...
Ben and Mavis Mundey have created an amazing rock garden on their property in Toowoomba near the mountains of the Great Dividing Range. The couple have collected every rock in the garden from mountainous grazing land in the region. To bring the rocks home they broke...
Burke’s Backyard visited the garden belonging to Otto Fauser in the Dandenongs, Victoria where he has created a Bavarian inspired alpine garden. There are crocuses and irises covering the hillsides of the garden including a number of miniature and rare varieties...
When Malcolm Booker was just five years old his father bought him a second hand meccano set which only had three wheels. Before he could finish off his first truck he had to wait until his dad bought him more meccano, and it seemed like years before he could...
Redlands is a 3 acre (1.2 hectare) woodland-style garden, built on a terraced, north-east facing slope at Mt Gibraltar in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales. The garden has been created in a microclimate – because of its aspect it is protected from harsh...
Herbie and Esme Kramhoft invited the Burke’s Backyard team to come and pay them a visit. Herbie was born in Germany and migrated to Australia in 1952. He and Esme have been married for forty odd years. When they first bought their house it was a little fibro...
Darren Haake loves collecting things. It all started when he was a youngster with a collection of ring pull tabs from drinking cans, then progressed to stamps, basketball cards, coins and hubcaps. In 1992 he decided to collect something no-one had ever tackled before...
Burke’s Backyard visited a beautiful 1.2ha (3 acre) garden in which the natural bushland blends successfully with Australian natives. The property, at Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains, is the home of John and Jill Gaibor, the former owners of Gaibor’s...