About this season
Can changing your back yard change your life? That's the question asked by Dream Gardens, hosted by Michael McCoy, one of Australia’s leading landscape designers, each episode follows the transformation of a garden and the family behind it.
Episodes (8)
1. Coffs Harbour, NSW
Aired 29 October 2019 • 30 min
Former city dwellers, Mark and Nicola Ruitenberg want an industrial style garden. But can an inner-city trend, dominated by waste concrete, be transplanted to a sub-tropical sanctuary in the country?
2. Erskineville, NSW
Aired 5 November 2019 • 30 min
A couple sacrifice their honeymoon to create a rooftop oasis for their inner-city apartment. Facing strata, weight and water restrictions will they succeed in going from barren to blissful?
3. Kyneton, VIC
Aired 12 November 2019 • 30 min
A couple ask their son and daughter-in-law to create a unique garden in Kyneton in Victoria. But do they have the courage to embrace a design that will transform their bland backyard into a striking sculptural showcase?
4. Portsea, VIC
Aired 19 November 2019 • 29 min
A beach loving Aussie family transform their flat building site in Portsea on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula into a modern Australian coastal garden.
5. Balwyn North, VIC
Aired 26 November 2019 • 30 min
Simon and Fleur Ansell relish mid-century modern architecture. They have the house, now they want the garden to match. But can they create a contemporary design in sync with its vintage roots?
6. Alexandria, NSW
Aired 3 December 2019 • 30 min
Young professionals Stuart and Monique Cormack are desperate to reinvent their tiny, neglected backyard. Will their big dreams fit their pint-sized, terrace garden?
7. Mount Eliza, VIC
Aired 10 December 2019 • 30 min
Artist Meredith Gaston and her husband Kevin Lindemann want a modern landscape to surround their house in Victoria's Mount Eliza. Instead, they have a neglected 40-year-old garden full of weeds and disease riddled trees.
8. Strath Creek, VIC
Aired 17 December 2019 • 30 min
Michael McCoy revisits a garden built after the owners lost their original property in a horror bushfire.