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The Garden Drum – Review ‘The New Australian Garden’
By Meg Geary “Michael Bates is a landscaper and landscape designer who runs a landscape construction and design company in...
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The Age – The Golden Age of Garden Design
By Robin Powell “Michael Bates is a proselytiser for gardens. He deeply believes that gardens can heal the world, and...
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Channel 10 – Studio 10 “8 Tips to Create Your Garden”
On Wednesday 6th September, Michael was a guest on Channel 10’s morning program Studio 10, where he chatted with the...
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HOUZZ – Tall Tales: An Astonishing Sydney Garden That was Once a Zoo
In an extract from ‘The New Australian Garden’, landscape designer Michael Bates takes us on a magical garden tour It’s...
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The Australian – The Long Game
By Helen Young. Michael Bates is an unabashed dreamer who fizzes with energy and ideas; a man who believes that...
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Mansion Magazine – The New Prospect
By Jonathan Chancellor. Australian landscape design is undergoing a renaissance, reintegrating gardens and architecture to create spaces that support and...
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Landscape Architecture Australia – An Educated Gardener
Michael Bates, arguably the most enterprising landscape contractor in the Sydney region, reflects on his education as a gardener in...
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ABC Radio National – The New Australian Garden
From rainforest gardens to Mediterranean cloud gardens, Japanese courtyard gardens to ‘chainsaw’ gardens, Australian garden design has been a constantly...
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SMH – The New Australian Garden: Lessons in the Lure of Outdoors
By Megan Backhouse “Think of all the ways you might lure people out of your house and into your garden...
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Garden Visit: Tallawong, Mount Irvine
The rich soils of Mount Irvine and Mount Wilson have long lured plant people like Michael up from the city...