Don's Landscaping Tips: Good Geometry
The use of good geometry in garden design creates a spectacular formal courtyard in a small area. Matching the pinky-grey brick of the house with limestone pavers can give a natural looking backdrop for geometrically placed plants and other ... [... more]
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Don's Landscaping Tips: Outdoor Entertainment Area
For many years pergolas have been fashionable in Australian backyards, either freestanding or attached to the back of the house. In theory if you plant deciduous climbers they'll grow over your pergola and give you shade in summer and sunshine in ... [... more]
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Bad Landscaping
Rosemary Healion wrote a letter to Burke's Backyard begging Don to come and save her garden. Just over twelve months ago she and her husband, Craig, hired a local landscaper to create a curved, paved edging in their backyard. Instead, the ... [... more]
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Water Levelling
Here is an easy and effective method to help you get a level measurement when landscaping. Levelling off large areas or finding the same level on different parts of a house or wall can be a bit of a challenge. Projects like paving, pergolas, ... [... more]
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Paving
Paving is undoubtedly one of the key features that go into landscaping. What you may not know is that the word paving actually refers to all sorts of different hard surfaces; things like asphalt, concrete and segmental paving. There are two main ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Waldecks Landscaping team
Landscaping is much more than bunging a few plants in the ground, and covering it with mulch. A good landscape design cleverly blends surroundings with hard landscaping elements such as paths, retaining walls and soft landscaping elements such as ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Outdoor Living
A functional waterwise landscape design is all about balancing the amount of hard landscaping elements, which are the paving areas, retaining walls and water features with the soft elements. This includes all things green. If you are in the ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Don's Landscaping Tips: Homeworld Hedges
Even if you're not thinking about building a house, display homes are great places to go and look for ideas. This applies to the outside of the property as well as the inside, as Don found when he visited Homeworld at Kellyville, in NSW. All the ... [... more]
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Designer Landscaping Plants
We all love buying and trying new plants, it is all part of the fun of gardening but it is amazing how often you can go back to those tried and true varieties, those plants that are genuinely good garden performers and work well in a variety of ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Native Landscaping
Of all the different garden styles native gardens are often considered to be the messiest. They are very informal by nature. They don't always have to be that way. With a really well constructed garden they can be quite outstanding and give a ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Episode: # 11 16/06/07
Winter is a good time of year to get some landscaping projects done, particularly hard landscaping. Things like walls, paving, decks and pergolas at which time, you can think about getting some plants in the ground, making full use of the entire ... [... more]
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DIY Landscaping Kit
Before doing any work or purchasing plants for your garden, it's essential to work out a precise design that incorporates your needs both now and in the future. Now sit down at a table and use the graph paper that comes with the kit to draw a ... [... more]
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