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Gardening and landscaping experts offer their priceless advice on improving your garden, backyard and outdoor entertainment area. They offer their views on good garden design, growing vegetables, choosing plants for Australian gardens and successful landscape design for courtyards and outdoor areas.

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  1. Achieving the pool lifestyle

    Expert advice on swimming pool construction from Ian Dickason, pools sales manager at Cookes Pools and Spas.

  2. Thumbs up for pool solar heating

    Get expert advice on pool solar heating from Rohan London, a pool heating professional from Sunlover Solar.

  3. Healthy pool experts

    John O'Brien, from PoolWerx, offers advice on maintaining a healthy pool and high pool hygiene standards.

  4. Outdoor home lights to brighten your garden

    Lighting expert Amander Flaherty, from Light On Landscape, offers advice on outdoor lighting for your home - to add some razzle-dazzle to any property.

  5. Sustainable garden design

    Garden designer, Peter Adley from Yardstick Landscape Design provides expert advice on sustainable garden design and permaculture.

  6. Excavating services for a garden landscape

    If you’re planning a complete overhaul of your garden design and need to create the space for it, consulting with an excavation contractor can help you bring your landscape plans to life.

  7. Metal garden edging for your landscape

    Whether you’re planning a new garden landscape, or just giving the lawn a makeover, metal garden edging can bring your designs to life. We caught up with an edging expert to find out all about the clean line method.

  8. Great swimming pool designs

    Modern pool designs have leapt out of the conventional above-ground swimming pool and dove straight into custom layouts that suit your outdoor area. We caught up with pool design expert Maree Voss to find out what’s happening in the outdoor luxury space.

  9. A swimming pool cleaner gives a fresh, green approach

    Expert advice on pool cleaning from John Horwood, a swimming pool cleaner from Aquavic.

  10. Using bark in your garden

    Most garden supplies revolve around garden edging, the right plants for the season and other garden products. So what about when you’re not after the most fancy design? We caught up with Bark King’s Jeff Johnston to find out what bark can do for your garden.