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Water Garden
Burke's Backyard — Landscape Arthitect, Judy van Gelderen was given a very detailed brief by the owners of a small, flat and uninteresting block of land in Canberra. They wanted to incorporate fourteen different 'spaces' or characters, including Japanese, ...More…
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Australia's Best Shed Competition
Burke's Backyard — For the terms and conditions for our competition, click here For the full details of the Trojan Tools to be won in the Best Shed competition, click here For photos of some of the entries so far, click hereMore…
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Carrot growing tips & recipes
Burke's Backyard — Carrots are one of the best vegies you can get kids started with in the garden. They don't take up much space, either, so even if you have only a small patch of sunny ground available, you can get a small crop of carrots growing. Carrots (Daucus ...More…
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Nasturtium - Plant of the week
Burke's Backyard — This wonderful plant is often taken for granted. As well as producing brightly coloured, cheerful flowers, it is the ideal plant for a child's first garden. The seeds are large and easily handled by little fingers, and the plants are easy to ...More…
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Jubilee Garden
Burke's Backyard — Jubilee Garden nestles at the foot of Mount Wellington in Hobart. On the day Burke's Backyard visited, the garden was a blaze of autumn colour. This is not a cutting edge, modern garden. The owners, Joy Stones and Ted Cutlan, have filled their ...More…
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Japanese Waterfall Garden
Burke's Backyard — Retired opera singer Maureen Williams and her husband Frank own one of the finest Japanese-style gardens in Australia. It was designed and built for the previous owners by Ken Lamb of Imperial Gardens, Sydney. His brief was to create a garden ...More…
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Japanese Style Garden
Burke's Backyard — 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…
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Japanese Garden
Burke's Backyard — Although many Australians dream of living near the beach, gardening by the seaside can be quite a challenge. Not only are beach sites usually very windy, but the plants also have to cope with sandy soil and salt spray. Don visited a ...More…
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Instant Garden
Burke's Backyard — Michael McCoy has created an amazing garden which has maximum impact in minimum time. A year ago the 0.1ha (0.2acre) backyard lawn was sprayed to kill it off and the whole area was planted out with herbaceous perennials. Within 12 months the ...More…
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Inner City Tropical Courtyard
Burke's Backyard — This inner city courtyard is a very good example of how to create a garden in a small space. The owners moved to Sydney from Adelaide six years ago and virtually brought the backyard with them. They moved from a house with a courtyard so most of ...More…
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Inner City Courtyard Makeover
Burke's Backyard — Don received a letter from Sandra Price, asking for help. Sandra's flat faces the street, and as the garden is below street level there is no privacy from passers-by. She explained that she loves Parisian-style gardens filled with citrus, colour ...More…
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Indoor Makeover
Burke's Backyard — Indoor plants are simply not very fashionable any more. Rarely do you open a decorator magazine and see plants featured in an interior decor. Indoor plants, however, can be used well in an indoor garden. Burke's Backyard recently visited a house ...More…