AUSTRALIA’S BEST BACKYARDS

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This week on AUSTRALIA’S BEST BACKYARDS:

Wahroonga - NSW

This Sydney couple have created a park for their children in their own backyard. The amazing adventure playground is complete with flying fox and climbing ropes all under a protective UV shade sail. They also have a temperature controlled swimming pool. The adults have not been neglected with a pavilion complete with a wood fire pizza oven.

Nyngan Pub – NSW

After a redundancy pay out from a city job this couple have made a life on the farm where the husband grew up. The farm was black soil wheat growing country and it is a great place to raise kids. They are part of the Open Gardens Scheme (and donate the money to local charities like the local school) and also open their backyard and the beautiful rose garden up for groups.

Kinvarra Billabong – VIC

Located in Victoria’s Yarra Valley, Kinvarra is a 10 acre estate situated on a north easterly slope overlooking the Dandenong Ranges and the Great Dividing Range. The owners have created 2 ½ acres of landscaped garden which includes fruit trees, veggie patch, roses surrounded by box hedges, a chook pen, a billabong, waterfall and an amazing natural looking dam.

Serendipity – OLD

The Cat Lady, built this house and moved in, ever since she has been building this surrogate family around her. She has an endless passion and love for her creations, ironically choosing to live with them rather than having even just one cat. The hours of enjoyment she has spent creating them, and the great companions they have all become can not be underestimated. She is a well known identity in the local area.

Flemington Community – VIC

In the Melbourne suburb of Flemington, over 124 families from the local high rise buildings have been given the opportunity to create their own backyard in the local Community Garden. Here people can hire their own plots and plant whatever they like, whenever they like. Each plot is the plot owner’s own little backyard.

AUSTRALIA’S BEST BACKYARDS, hosted by JAMIE DURIE and featuring landscape designers FIONA BRUYN and ANDREW O’SULLIVAN, takes a peek over back fences across the nation in search of the country’s best backyards.