Famous Australian people and landmarks on Burke’s Backyard
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...
Monaro on Monaro is an award-winning garden located in Canberra. It has been transformed by owners John and Judy Thompson over a period of 38 years from a functional, neat and tidy garden into a horticultural delight. Their efforts have recently been recognised with...
In 1991 artist Elizabeth Fisher and her husband bought a house at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in the Sydney suburb of Gordon. At the time the garden was an overgrown mass of bamboo and privet. Although they couldn’t see it, they knew that the remains of...
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...
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...
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...
Years ago if you wanted to improve the look of your property you went to the local nursery. Those nurseries had a wonderful range of plants, but they were fairly unimaginative places. The very latest shopping development is the lifestyle centre, where you can buy...
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...