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A 1950s home receives a Mediterranean-style makeover – Homes to Love
The garden was reworked by landscape designer Michael Bates, including new timber decking around the existing swimming pool. “We had...
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Garden Trends 2022 – Home Beautiful
It is in these warmer spring months that we start to get a sense of the year wrapping up. The...
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After the Fires in the Blue Mountains – AFR
After witnessing the large-scale destruction in the Blue Mountains during his coverage of the bushfire crisis in late 2019 and...
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SMH: ‘Winter lockdown is a chance to give the garden a good edit.’
By Robin Powell. Winter in the garden is a bit like turning all the lights on while looking in the...
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The Design Files Garden Profile: July
Recently, The Design Files profiled a garden Michael designed and the Bates team constructed on Sydney’s beautiful North Shore. The...
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Better Homes and Gardens with Charlie Albone
Recently, Michael chatted with Charlie Albone on Channel 7’s long-running and ever popular Better Homes and Gardens. The chat took...
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Australia’s Most Magnificent Gardens
A stroll around three of Australia’s most magnificent gardens ELIZABETH CLARKE NOV 9, 2017 An edited extract. Three of Australia’s leading...
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Award Winning Landscape Design
The Houses Awards is the pinnacle of residential design, which celebrates Australia’s best every year, including award winning landscape design. This year,...
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ABC Dream Gardens Visits the Red Garden
A new season of Dream Gardens, the ABC garden design program, has returned to our screens and devices this week...
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The Weekly Times – Book Review
DEC 13, 2017 / THE WEEKLY TIMES NO LONGER is a garden an area of land used for growing flowers...