Waterwise Courtyard
With houses getting larger and blocks getting smaller landscape designers are facing the same dilemma everywhere of how they are going to fit all the elements of an outstanding landscape design into a small confined area. A good landscape design ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
DesignFest
Melissa visits the amazing garden of landscape designer John Van de Linde, where just six years ago his garden was a horse grazing paddock. John found the block of land and being a landscape designer, he wanted to go things that you can't ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Japanese Style Garden
Don looked at a contemporary, Japanese-style garden at Noosa, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast. Local landscape designers Anne-Marie and Dror Barkai designed the garden to add interest to a stark, white, modular building. Their solution to a ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Gregg Chapman's Garden
Don visited Gregg Chapman, landscape designer, and Nicole Faulkner, landscape architect, at their home in the Melbourne suburb of Brighton. They have transformed a dull and uninteresting garden into a beautifully designed, stylish garden that ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Design Fest
It is not often you get to take a peak at a landscape designer's garden. Like most people, Georgie Linton wants a garden that is a balance between space for her young family, and a creative look and feel of its own. Being a landscape architect, ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Three-way balcony makeover
Three landscape designers show different ways of turning a confined outdoor space into a little oasis. Nearly one and a half million Australians choose to live in apartments. This way of living has advantages though one of the down sides is the ... [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Brisbane Thai Garden
Although on a tight budget, Bronwyn and John Chippendale were prepared to spend money on the structure of their garden. They realised that if the bones were right, the rest would fall into place. They called in landscape designer Phillip ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Indoor Plants
Indoor plants are no longer out! Landscape designer Jamie Durie, of Patio Garden Design, introduces us to the new and trendy plants that can be seen indoors today. The indoor plant has returned as a symbol of sophisticated style. The comeback has ... [... more]
NineMSN OurHouse |
Sue visits Liz Adams' Open Garden
Now, I'm sure you've heard the story, a mechanics car is always broken down, a plumber's toilet always leaks and an electrician has never quite finished the light fittings. So when you come to a landscape designers garden what would you expect to ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Budd's Beach: Ansett Australia's Come and See My Garden
Burke's Backyard recently visited a fantastic Queensland home that makes great use of a small garden area to create a relaxing retreat. Situated on the Nerang River at Budd's Beach the landscape designer worked closely with the architect to ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Green-free House & Garden
The house Frank Macchia designed for Rod and Sue Thomas is powerful, dominating and unconventional. The building covers 60% of the block, with about one third of the house surrounded by a moat. Landscape designer, Jim Fogarty, didn't feel that ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
Balinese Rooftop
Landscape designer Andrew O'Sullivan convinced the owner of an ugly, red brick apartment block that with the right landscaping and renovations the building would increase in value. In return for Andrew's input the owner sold him the rooftop at ... [... more]
Burke's Backyard |
