Issue#15.5 2018

Backyard and Outdoor Living

Create your dream backyard and garden

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Now You Can Enjoy The Great Australian Backyard And Do It With A Lot Less Effort
Backyard entertaining is a fundamental way of life in Australia. We love having friends over for a barbie, playing in the pool, backyard cricket or just lazing on a Sunday afternoon with a cold beer or a chilled glass of wine. What has also become a
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Industrial Entertainer
WORDS: KYLIE BARACZ PHOTOS: KARINA ILLOVSKA Creating an outdoor entertaining space in a small courtyard can be challenging; however, this inner-city terrace proves that it is not only possible, the result can be idyllic. The owner of this urban home
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What To Do
Step 1. Firstly, measure the wall space where the hat rack will go to establish the length of timber needed. Keep in mind how many hooks you will require to meet your family’s needs. Measure and cut a piece of timber to fit. We have used the beautifu
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Editor's Note
About five years ago, my husband and I purchased a gorgeous four-bedroom home on NSW’s Central Coast. It was like something out of a storybook, located on a quiet cul-de-sac and equipped with an impressive outdoor area and swimming pool. While we had
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Give Your Children A Jump-start In Life With This Premium Range Of Trampolines Range
Many Australians have fond childhood memories of time spent in the backyard bouncing on a trampoline with siblings and friends — long, leisurely days spent jumping and learning new tricks. Now your children can create their own lifelong memories with
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Fruit OF THE Gods
WORDS: MELISSA KING PHOTOS: THE DIGGERS CLUB I will never forget driving through rural Greece for the first time and seeing grove upon grove of ancient olive trees, trunks gnarled and twisted with age, some growing in impossible locations but always
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Blurred Lines
WORDS: LOUISE SMITHERS PHOTOS: JENNA FAHEY-WHITE “Bluestone paving adds timeless charisma to the space” Nothing ruins the fantasy of a grand and functional yard faster than an awkwardly shaped block of land. Dreams of a lap pool are dashed and the
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Don't Miss A Beat
Governor of New South Wales, David Hurley, and wife Linda Hurley have dedicated a new rose in honour of all the wives of Governors of New South Wales throughout history. “Our nation was founded on many qualities and one often overlooked is the streng
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BACKYARD Stuff
Get a helping hand in the garden and keep your fingers protected with Glovax. This great product is made with a revolutionary yarn material that is equipped with abrasion resistance, blade cut resistance, tear strength resistance and puncture resista
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Selecting The Right Lawn For Your Area And Your Needs Is The Key To Long-term Success
Choosing the right lawn for your climate can be tough! You don’t want to install a beautiful turf only to find that it has died off or is looking patchy just six months later. Despite your best maintenance efforts, this could happen simply because th
Backyard and Outdoor Living3 min readGardening
High On A Hill
WORDS: CARROL BAKER PHOTOS: TIM BEDDOWS The garden that surrounds the rustic home and its cottages is a riot of colour: fuchsia, magenta, hot pink and burgundy prevail, with splashes of white, sunny yellow and vibrant orange. The leafy green foliage
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The Makers
If you have a claw-foot bath tub that has outlived its usefulness, why not turn it into an outdoor sofa or chair? Just such a thought occurred to three landscape design students from Melbourne’s Swinburne University of Technology — Dale Johnson, Liz
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Timber Provides Excellent Value For Money And Offers An Array Of Benefits For Your Home
Timber provides a way to enhance any home or garden; also any commercial or retail property. Hardwood timber can be used to create comfortable, attractive and flexible features ranging from internal flooring to outside decking and beams. When renovat
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Subtropical Oasis
WORDS: KYLIE BARACZ PHOTOS: DARREN KERR Lounging in the backyard with friends and family is commonplace in Australia’s Sunshine State, whether by the pool or stretched out on the lawn. So when it came time to update their tired garden and pool area,
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A BLOKE AND His Block
WORDS: MEGG MILLER PHOTOS: MARCEL AUCAR Imagine the havoc an errant broody hen and chicks could create in a picture-perfect veggie and flower garden. Though not a regular catastrophe for Ian Nash, it’s one of the challenges he works with on his two-
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The Life Of Bees
WORDS: JOHN SCOTT PHOTOS: DIANE CRAWFORD Beekeeping can be a satisfying pastime and the rewards are very sweet indeed. Apart from the obvious — honey — there is also the improved pollination of plants and the joy of getting to know an amazing commun
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Work And Play
WORDS: KAREN BOOTH For most of us, our gardens are places of retreat — somewhere we can go when we want to relax. But outdoors is also where we head when we want to entertain, which is why we need our outdoor living spaces to be inviting, practical,
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UNDER THE Mango Tree
WORDS: JEN STITTPHOTOS: JEN STITT & DAN GUTHRIE Dan and I moved to the mid-north coast of NSW 14 years ago when we purchased an 810-square-metre block, home to an old fibro cottage and a magnificent mango tree. Over the years we have removed, plante
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On Your Grass
WORDS: JOE ROGERS It’s every Australian’s birthright to have a beautiful lawn in their home for hosting barbecues, playing games of backyard soccer and letting the kids and pets roam free around the yard. This means that choosing the correct lawn fo
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Greener Pastures
WORDS: APRIL OSSINGTON Nature is well known for contributing to feelings of relaxation and wellbeing. The practice of gardening itself can have positive effects on physical and mental health from heart disease to depression. “Without plants, the sen
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Snapshot
What do you get when you combine an outdated 1920s California bungalow with the talented architects from Sydney firm Utz-Sanby? You get a seriously modern upgrade with an envy-inducing, neighbour magnet of a backyard. The home sits on a gently slopin
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Seeing Red
WORDS: DENSEY CLYNE PHOTOS: DIANE CRAWFORD Many gardeners and orchardists living in the northern and eastern states of Australia will have woeful tales to tell of infestations by a small beetle that leaves their crops, orchard trees and ornamentals
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Whether Grown In Pots Or Garden Beds, These Plants Will Put On A Great Show
Some plants are great for pots, others are best in the garden, but some lucky plants thrive in both environments. Of course there are differences in how you manage your plants, depending on whether they are potted or in garden beds. With pots, versat
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The Sky’s The Limit
WORDS: CARROL BAKER PHOTOS: FLORIAN GROEHN This commercial landscape build is bold and innovative. It’s low key, but at the same time it’s also a little bit highbrow. And it’s raising the bar to dizzy new heights for inner-city commercial outdoor sp
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Sweet And Juicy
WORDS: DIANE CRAWFORD PHOTOS: FLEMING’S NURSERIES Stone fruits include almonds, apricots, cherries, nectarines, peaches and plums, all botanically related members of the genus Prunus. Their fruit can be eaten fresh or dried or can be used in cooking
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If You Like A Tropical, Balinese Or Resort-style Look, Black Bamboo Screening Is For You
For instant tropical or resort-style appeal, it’s hard to go past the allure of bamboo screening. Whether you’ve gone for a Balinese-themed backyard or just want to add a touch of the exotic to your garden, bamboo screening is the ideal choice. Bambo
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Up And Away
WORDS: ALICE GRIFFIN PHOTOS: NORTH SYDNEY COUNCIL Susan Cummins’ garden boasts an abundance of begonias, bromeliads, geraniums, ferns and native orchards. A green wall with more than 150 blooms borders the backyard, complemented by colourful flower
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Grow Your Own Beer
WORDS: JENNIFER STACKHOUSE PHOTOS: DIANE NORRIS & ADAM WILSON Hops are the flowers of the climbing plant Humulus lupulus. The climber grows each spring, sprouting from a rhizome beneath the soil to produce many twining stems, rough but handsomely lo
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Enjoy Your Outdoor Space Even More With A Variety Of Lighting Options For Entertaining Alfresco
Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or have a barely-green thumb, there are practical tools that will help you step up your game this summer. Enter Holman Industries, a proud Australian, family-owned business that specialises in watering, gardening an
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With A Flexible Steel-edging Product, You Can Give Shape And Definition To Any Garden
When it comes to garden edging, you need a product that is strong, versatile and weather resistant — and you can’t get anything that fits the bill better than steel. With Greenlines Gardenware’s FormBoss range of no-maintenance, Australian-made steel

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