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Dream Gardens ep 3

Dream Gardens season 1 / 2 minutes of reading / October 27, 2019 / By HDclump

Dream Gardens ep 3 Mother Nature can be your best friend, but she can also be your worst enemy. Stewart and Sandra Hart lost their home, garden and wonderful memories in the devastating Black Saturday bush-fires of 2009. Rather than face the painful process of rebuilding, the Harts bought a property in a bucolic, country valley an hour’s drive from Melbourne. In search of inspiration for the garden they visited Stonefields, the home of Paul Bangay, one of Australia’s most in demand designers. Blown away by its beauty and idyllic setting they’ve tasked Paul with the job of […]

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Dream Gardens ep 2

Dream Gardens season 1 / 2 minutes of reading / October 27, 2019 / By HDclump

Dream Gardens ep 2: All gardens are dream driven but now and again the dream turns into a nightmare. When Frank and Mary-Anne D’Aquila bought their home the backyard was an overgrown slope. In pursuit of a family garden complete with pool, plants, and an entertaining space, they made the fateful mistake of deciding to level off the entire block. Fast forward, three long years and their dream lay in tatters. Tonnes of dirt had been removed but what was left was a cracked, pool shell and monolithic concrete walls, the dream garden looked more like an end

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Dream Gardens ep 1

Dream Gardens season 1 / 2 minutes of reading / October 27, 2019 / By HDclump

Dream Gardens ep 1: This new Australian series begins with a rural Queensland couple’s journey to transform a rock hard paddock into an ambitious and extensive kitchen garden so that they can live out their “grow it, eat it, live it” dream. For tree changers Michael and Rosi Kenny home is an 1890’s homestead just south of Toowoomba in Queensland, it’s an idyllic rural setting with cows and horses roaming freely across their acreage. Both share a dream of being able to live off the land by adopting a ‘grow it, eat it, live it’ ethos. But being

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Gardening Australia episode 39 2019

Gardening Australia 2019 / 2 minutes of reading / October 25, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardening Australia episode 39 2019: Jane Edmanson shares her top tips for beginners at the nursery, Josh Byrne does some essential maintenance on his climbing plants and we visit host of ABC TV’s Dream Gardens, Michael McCoy. Gardening Australia has always provided practical, trustworthy and credible gardening advice to inspire and entertain. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet avid gardeners and look at some of the most inspiring gardens from across the country. Gardening Australia episode 39 2019 Nursery 101 Jane visits a

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Gardens Near and Far episode 45 – Tresco Abbey Gardens

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / October 22, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 45 – Tresco Abbey Gardens: Augustus John Smith – 26 years old rich aristocrat decided to sow a subtropical garden, the “Tresco Abbey Garden”. The Scilly archipelago can be found in the Celtic sea, off the coast of England… The windy island of Tresco saw Augustus John Smith arrive at the beginning of the nineteenth century. Augustus John Smith studied the miserable living conditions of the English population. Ideologically close to the utopian ideas of his time, he sought to change the neediest’s ways of living. The Scilly Islands were extremely poor, thus

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Gardens Near and Far episode 44 – Taman Ujung

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / October 21, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 44 – Taman Ujung: Built between 1912 and 1921, the floating gardens of Taman Ujung are the work of King Anak Agung, the last king to govern the region of East Bali. Although Indonesia was then under Dutch rule, the kings of the provinces continued to exercise local power. The place was carefully chosen for the presence of sacred water sources beneath a lake that opens onto the sea. It was the king’s duty to transmit spiritual values to his people, and the design of his garden illustrates this approach. Gardens Near

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Gardening Australia episode 38 2019

Gardening Australia 2019 / 3 minutes of reading / October 20, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardening Australia episode 38 2019: Costa Georgiadis visits a young couples rooftop garden, Sophie Thomson explores wild roses, Jane Edmanson visits a family’s hobby farm, Millie Ross goes bird watching and Tino Carnevale is planting his favourite tomatoes. Gardening Australia has always provided practical, trustworthy and credible gardening advice to inspire and entertain. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet avid gardeners and look at some of the most inspiring gardens from across the country. Gardening Australia episode 38 2019 Trainspotting Costa meets a

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Gardens Near and Far episode 43 – Sezincote

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / October 18, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 43 – Sezincote: At the heart of the English countryside in Gloucestershire, north-west of Oxford, the Sezincote estate houses a surprising dwelling. It is the work of the Cockerell brothers – British aristocrats of the end of the eighteenth century. Sezincote’s history is one of family. Right as they came back from India where they spent long years serving the crown, the Cockerells acquired the estate in 1794. The house was then no more than a “plain old” English manor. Charles Cockerell transformed it into an Indian palace – which was quite a

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Gardens Near and Far episode 42 – Sacro Bosco

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / October 16, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 42 – Sacro Bosco: The Sacred Grove, a mysterious garden to the North East of Rome, was created in the 1550s by Vicino Orsini, Lord of Bomarzo, who worked on beautifying it until his death in 1584. He drew inspiration from the Etruscan civilisation but in a style that was closer to Mannerism, a trend at the end of the Italian Renaissance that refused the traditional rules of harmony and imitation of nature. After Vicino Orsini’s death, the garden was abandoned for nearly 350 years. In the mid 20th century it was rediscovered,

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Gardens Near and Far episode 41 – Rosendal

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / October 14, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 41 – Rosendal : Sprawling on 5 hectares, Rosendal is a food and flower garden at the heart of Stockholm. It has been in perpetual evolution for 200 years: it is a model garden for Sweden. The exceptional nature of the Rosendal garden is explained by its situation in the city; it is located in the island of Djurgarden – which is 27 square kilometers large – flanked by the waters of the Baltic sea and linked to the town center by multiple bridges. Between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, the island of

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Gardening Australia episode 37 2019

Gardening Australia 2019 / 3 minutes of reading / October 13, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardening Australia episode 37 2019: Costa and Sophie visit neighbours who grow food together, Tino shares tips on fern care, Jane Edmanson visits the Kevin Heinze community garden and Millie Ross tastes some edible succulents. Gardening Australia has always provided practical, trustworthy and credible gardening advice to inspire and entertain. Inspiring, entertaining and full of practical advice, join Costa Georgiadis and the team as they unearth gardening ideas, meet avid gardeners and look at some of the most inspiring gardens from across the country. Gardening Australia episode 37 2019 ABC Gardeners’ Market Costa and Sophie are

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Gardens Near and Far episode 40 – Powerscourt

Gardens Near and Far / 2 minutes of reading / October 8, 2019 / By HDclump

Gardens Near and Far episode 40 – Powerscourt : this Irish garden has witnessed four centuries of history. Initially designed for the Wingfield family in the eighteenth century, the grounds of Powerscourt were the creation of the English architect and landscape designer Daniel Robertson. Although Powerscourt is still privately owned, the Irish are justly proud of this historic garden with its splendid trees and statues, which incorporates superb panoramic views of the landscape. Until the nineteenth century, with the exception of the Italian garden, the grounds contained very few trees. But the seventh Viscount of Powerscourt wanted to

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