Better Homes and Gardens Australia

Better Homes and Gardens - full of ideas, inspiration and information for you and your family. Every issue of Better Homes and Gardens is packed with inspiring, affordable and achievable ideas plus step-by-step projects for all areas of your home and garden.

Hello! • I’ve just watched the ‘greatest show on earth’ as a judge of our Garden of the Year comp, and I can’t wait to share the magic

Better Homes and Gardens

Colour + Style • Be inspired to be bold and fearless with colour, which need not always involve using the brightest hues! Paint, fabric and furniture, even natural timber, are your tools. Ready to get started?

Pull Up A Chair • With paint, upholstery and a vision, your thrifted chairs are primed for upgrades that deserve a standing ovation

Past Meets Present • When renovating an old cottage for future living, focus on preserving and/ or enhancing what makes it special – its charm, character and history. Take our clever cues on how to attain this authentic style

Better Decorating

Your Classic Baking Day

Colin’s Kitchen • Raid the garden for fresh, colourful ingredients to make mouth-watering dishes – yum!

Cooking With Karen

Eat well • Designed for foodies with diabetes, this recipe is so tasty the whole fam will love it!

Better cooking

Delightful Dahlias

Max It Out! • When you decide to take a walk on the wild side, it’s guaranteed it will be blooming wonderful!

Red Hot • With a leisurely stroll you can draw inspiration from Australia’s fascinating native plants and learn how to grow them in your garden

Fantastic Futuristic

Magic Is In The Air

Black Beauty • Creating the perfect antidote to soulless inner urban surrounds need not be challenging if you keep it simple!

Garden Of The Year Competition 2023 • Better Homes and Gardens, in partnership with Tuscan Path, is delighted to announce the winning entrants, who collect a combined $15,000 in cash and $15,000 in products

Flat & Fabulous • You don’t need to be a control freak to espalier your new fruit tree – you’re simply exercising your artistic bent!

It’s a snip! • Get new plants for free by propagating from the ones you already own

Make It Mexican • Brighten up your garden with a traditional Mexican mix of sunny yellows, bright blues, crazy burnt oranges and dazzling pinks!

Marigold Magic • They may be autumn’s most versatile flower – unfussy and humble, yet revered. These projects put fluffy, fiery marigolds on full display for both special occasions and everyday décor

Seeds To Bloom • Sow and grow delightful and vibrant marigolds, dahlias and other garden glamours. To buy your seeds and for planting guides, visit the BHG Shop online

Fresh Take • Let your inner creative loose and give stock standard supermarket, grocery store and florist flowers professional pizzazz with expert arranging ideas

In Your Garden

Better Gardening

Moon Guide • Use the phases of the moon to your advantage by following Milton Black’s planting guide

Porch Perfect • Make your house the best on the block with head-turning planters and decorative details that won’t cost the earth

Dine Hard • Indulge your inner maker and build a solid hardwood dining set fit for a feast with the fam. It’s a breeze to build with trusty halving joints, and has designer Scandi looks but at a snip of the cost!

Clean Break • If you keep kidding yourself that you’ll tidy up that topsy-turvy linen press “one day”, this easy makeover will prod you to get started, pronto!

Better Books

It’s Your Move! • How to up your physical activity and get the maximum benefits from working out

Better Health

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