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Open garden: Autumn colour comes to Burra

DESPITE being at the mercy of the weather, Monica and Allan Schmidt are opening their beautiful established garden in Burra to show off its spectacular autumn colour. “Some of the trees are turning, but most […]

History among the shadows

SURROUNDED by eucalypts, ash and oaks, gnarled old pines, liquidambars, flowering crabapples, Manchurian pears and Canadian maples, historical “Shadowlands” is all about the trees. The country garden in Braidwood is in the process of being […]

Pretty garden with a meditative air

WORDS: Kathryn Vukovljak PHOTOS: Brent McDonald (gallery below article)

At home with a garden of discovery

WORDS: Kathryn Vukovljak PHOTOS: Brent McDonald

Historic Lambrigg blends intimate formal spaces with wider views

Garden takes to new shapes

HISTORIC Lambrigg garden, which often hosts Open Gardens Australia’s plant fair, will host the inaugural Sculpture in the Garden event, showing off the work of Australian artists. There will be 27 other local, national and […]

Daisy, daisy; come into the garden, do

OPEN GARDEN WORDS: Kathryn Vukovljak PHOTOS: Brent McDonald

Green thumbs gather at Lanyon

WORDS: Kathryn Vukovljak PHOTOS: Silas Brown THE garden at historic Lanyon homestead has never looked better, with its beautiful roses blooming and the huge vegetable garden overflowing with produce beneath views of the Brindabella Ranges. […]

Trudy’s garden is good enough to eat!

A GARDEN that will feed the family and provide a beautiful environment to enjoy might be the stuff of dreams, but for Trudy Yogini it’s a wonderful reality in her modest Ainslie backyard. A productive […]

A sustainable oasis in Bywong

Using salvaged materials and permaculture principles, landscape designers Jennie and Chris Curtis have created a sustainable house, a huge, wildly productive veggie patch and a stylish garden packed with trial plantings of native cultivars at […]

Four seasons in one garden

FRAGRANCE and colour are a year-round treat in Bob and Priscilla Chapman’s peaceful garden. Abundant roses scent the air in spring and summer, but every season has its heroes; with daphnes and jonquils providing fragrance […]

Cottage garden crammed with delights

OVERFLOWING with pots, hanging baskets, happy colours and bright flowers everywhere, Sylvia Tol’s cottage style garden is crammed to the brim with her favourite things. “I love roses and irises; they grow anywhere,” she says. […]

Bushland natives and breathtaking views

A SPECTACULAR passionfruit vine, laden with fruit, covers the front veranda of Richard and Gwenda Bramley’s lovely home, which hints at the lovely rear garden with tussock grasses, climbing roses, fruit trees, a three-level pond, […]

A garden of contrast and colour

A CLEVER solar-passive house, which owner Tim Woodburn says looks “superb” from the back, was the inspiration for a colourful native garden that frames and softens the house. “It looks like a big cheese, or […]

Open gardens bloom in spring

BRIAN and Penny Tetlow’s fragrant, flowery garden, overflowing with daffodils, daphne, jonquils, crocuses and pansies, hellebores, primulas and polyanthus, was created thanks to a collapsing gum tree. “It had been a much-loved tree for our […]

Beautiful testament to hard work

THE fruitful abundance of the beautiful mountain garden at 1386 Urila Road, Burra, is testament to the hard work of the garden creators and the successful use of biodynamic practices. Situated in the Tinderry Mountains […]

Pretty glimpse of autumn in a country cottage garden

A COTTAGE-STYLE garden shelters privately behind shady deciduous trees and densely planted boundaries of plums, hawthorns and photinias at 27 Modbury Street, Bungendore. Surrounding an 1880s cottage, this pretty garden has evolved organically since owners […]

Paradise rises from the blisters

“IT has been a real challenge and through blistered hands and aching muscles, we have achieved what we believe to be our little piece of paradise,” say garden owners Mary and Adrian Hesse. And their […]

Open days honour a special promise to Fay

THE opening of the beautiful Osborn Garden at 16 Dungowan Street, Hawker, honours a promise that owner Richard Osborn made to his wife and fellow gardener, Fay, who passed away last year. “In 2008, we […]

Garden charm opens at Berry

AT the beginning of 2000, Chris and Carolyn Francis moved to what was then an undulating paddock of thigh-high grass surrounded by a little creek on the outskirts of Berry. Their dream was to build […]

Home with a history

DATING from the 1840s, Palerang was previously the home of poet David Campbell in the 1960s.

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Open garden: Autumn colour comes to Burra

History among the shadows

Pretty garden with a meditative air

At home with a garden of discovery

Garden takes to new shapes

Daisy, daisy; come into the garden, do

Green thumbs gather at Lanyon

Trudy’s garden is good enough to eat!

A sustainable oasis in Bywong

Four seasons in one garden

Cottage garden crammed with delights

Bushland natives and breathtaking views

A garden of contrast and colour

Open gardens bloom in spring

Beautiful testament to hard work

Pretty glimpse of autumn in a country cottage garden

Paradise rises from the blisters

Open days honour a special promise to Fay

Garden charm opens at Berry

Home with a history

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