It’s all about relaxed, laid-back living for garden owners Alan and Lynne Wade, whose Kambah home is to be featured in the Canberra Open Garden scheme
WHEN Maria White’s dear friend and running buddy Marg van Belkom was diagnosed with motor neurone disease last year, Maria decided to fundraise by opening her beautiful Wanniassa garden to the public for the first […]
Photos by MADDIE McGUIGAN MOSAIC stepping stones, wall art, water features and sculptures fill Tina van Raay’s Campbell garden, making it an outdoor gallery of her glass artworks. Tina will open the colourful, peaceful space […]
LARGE deciduous trees frame and shade Emma Kain’s garden, where the focus is on fun and creativity for her three children, aged 10, eight and six. “The kids love being out in the garden, and […]
A SMALL garden can create a visual impact, feed a family and be beautiful and relaxing at the same time, says garden owner and marriage celebrant Sandra Norris of her Theodore garden. “I like to […]
BACKING on to the stunning Pinnacle nature reserve and hidden away on the hillside, artist Felicity Green’s large, 2800sqm, sloping block is alive with insects, birds and butterflies. A blend of natives and exotics, Felicity […]
WHILE Isobel Crawford’s garden is densely screened from the street by wattles, tea trees and casuarinas, the cucumber and zucchini growing at the front door give a hint of what lies behind. With predominantly […]
“I was definitely attracted to the front garden with its winding paths and English feel,” says open garden host Sarah Doyle.
“It’s definitely a gardener’s garden, rather than a landscape design garden, and we love plenty of year-round colour and lots of variety,” says open-garden owner IAN DAVENPORT
A PEACEFUL garden that’s both pretty and productive lies at the centre of Jane Vincent’s beef cattle farm in Sutton, though when she and her husband David moved in 32 years ago it was nothing […]
AN 1850s flour mill, a thriving slow-food farm, properties steeped in history and newer gardens are among the attractions of this year’s Braidwood Open Gardens, on the weekend of October 15-16. The event, a fundraiser […]
Photos by ANDREW FINCH COMPLETELY hidden from the road, Ursula Reid’s secret Queanbeyan garden backs on to the river and features a riverside walkway, a waterfall that runs from the top level to the […]
CAROL Kemp says that because the views from her home in Calwell are nothing short of spectacular, she knew her garden had to be special, too. “When we first moved in, it was a dead, […]
A BEAUTIFUL Japanese-inspired garden with 24 different varieties of maple, daring pruning of a “poodle” bay tree and “lifted” banksia and paths that lead to a surprise around every corner creates a haven for its […]
DESCRIBING their 10-hectare property in Bywong as “experimental”, landscape designers Jennie and Chris Curtis say they use their small farm as a way of trying out ways of living and gardening sustainably. “We want to […]
IT’S all about the understory in Lorraine and Geoff Corner’s peaceful Pearce garden. The rich carpet of green beneath magnolias, conifers and pittosporum creates a lush vibe on this large block, with the dense layer […]
Photos by Andrew Finch A SECRET garden welcomes visitors to Peter and Lyn Woodbury’s Googong property, with camellias, rhododendrons, peony roses and other exotics tucked away around curved paths under a shady hakea tree. However, […]
Photos by ANDREW FINCH TIM and Shane Woodburn’s garden is designed around their solar-passive house, with low-lying shrubs around the large windows, deciduous eves and ferns to frame and soften the house in the front. […]
IN Tom Baker’s shady garden, everything mingles in together and competes for space, creating a cool and endlessly interesting landscape to explore and enjoy. “I’ve been here for 36 years and the garden has changed […]
Photos by Andrew Finch WHEN Fiona MacGregor moved into the house next door to her daughter and two grandchildren, the first thing they did was remove the boundary fence to create one large, cottage-style garden. […]
THE intersection of Isabella Drive and Drakeford Drive was closed earlier today (November 20) following a multi-vehicle crash. At about 10.40am paramedics assessed and treated three patients on scene. Another patient was transported to the […]
WHEN Scott Morrison parachuted into the prime ministership, he was anxious to remove outstanding barnacles quickly. Now that he’s foolishly created one of his own, he needs to bring a similar sense of urgency to […]
WOMEN have taken to social media to express their outrage after US rapper YG berated women at the music festival Spilt Milk on Saturday (November 17). Carly Paine from Freedom Music in Canberra says during his […]
A GROUP of marchers are walking more than 560 kilometres from Sydney to Kosciuszko National Park to raise awareness of NSW’s recently-passed Kosciuszko Wild Horse Heritage Act 2018 – and they’ll soon be in Queanbeyan. […]
A MAN armed with a handgun ran out of Mawson Club late on Saturday (November 17) night after he failed to open the cash register. He entered the club at about 11pm, got out his […]
