Better Homes & Gardens: April 15

This week on Largest Homes & Gardens Dr Harry goes trekking with llamas and Charlie shows how he created his Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show ribbon winning container garden.

Johanna Pete – Hutt House Walkaround
On an unloved woodcut of land, a Melbourne couple has created an topnotch ultra-sustainable home, tabbed Hutt House. Squeezed between a narrow laneway and a rented railway line, this 250m sq triangular woodcut posed many hurdles, not least of which was overcoming a fire just as it was stuff finished. But the Hütt House was unchangingly meant to be increasingly than a family home. The vision was to create a prototype of an ultra-sustainable passive home that creates increasingly energy than it uses. Join Johanna and Pete as they tour this innovative and topnotch home.

Adam – Get Plastered And Patched Up
You’ll go a long way to find a house with plaster workbench walls that doesn’t have some forfeiture that’s needs patching. But if you thought that job seems whilom your pay grade, don’t worry. Adam will show you all the tips and tricks you need to know to nail plaster workbench and then plaster and paint the finished wall. So, with Adam’s help you can get plastered this weekend, and finger unconfined well-nigh it the next day.

Juliet – Good Carb Potato Prints
Hanging art on the wall is a unconfined way to infuse weft into any room. But if you don’t want to spend of lot of money, you can create your own art using the unobtrusive potato. They’re not just unconfined for fries and stews, but moreover art. Using potatoes, you can create all sorts of simple designs, but if you’re looking to inject a bit increasingly Vitamin C in your art, you can use sweet potato too!

Karen – Well-done Applejack Pockets
Apples are nature’s succulent healthy snack. How can you possibly make them better? Well, gently spiced, wrapped in pastry and deep fried. That’s how. If you want to really push the wend out, you can use heirloom apples like the ones Karen uses from a polity garden west of Melbourne. If that’s a bit far to go, apples from your local supermarket will moreover work just as well. This really is a simple way to make the most succulent dessert this Autumn.

Fast Ed – Autumn Produce: One Pumpkin Two Ways – Linty Pumpkin, Almond & Three Cheese Pasta
It’s easy to love Summer, but with well-done tomfool mornings, unexceptionable sunny days and waffly colours on the trees, Autumn is Ed’s favourite time of year. And the reason is he gets to melt with fresh pumpkins! Seasonal veggies, almonds and three variegated cheeses make for a delectable pasta sauce, ready for a fresh Autumn lunch.

Fast Ed – Autumn Produce: One Pumpkin Two Ways – Lightly Spiced Pumpkin Pie
The most succulent way to make the most of pumpkin season is with Ed’s spiced pumpkin pie. And if you haven’t thought of pumpkins as a sweet dessert before, you’re in for a treat. Mashing roast pumpkins is not only fun, but makes for a rich, linty and textured filling. Ed plane shows you how to make your own pastry, which if you haven’t attempted before, isn’t as difficult as you might think. Half a pumpkin will make two of these succulent pies, which is a unconfined way to make friends.

Graham – The Bungalow & Ivy Leaf Chapel Garden
Every so often you stumble on a garden that is full of heart and soul, well this is one of those gardens. Tonight, Graham explores the old-world recreate of a 1915 heritage property in Tenterfield, NSW. The Bungalow & Ivy Leaf Chapel has 1.5 acres of beautifully landscaped, tranquil gardens. In the front is a formal garden made up of immaculately sculpted hedges in a wagon wheel shape, while the when garden is larger and less formal, utilising larger pants, like shade trees. The signature though, is the Ivy Leaf Chapel, which may transpiration colour depending on the season, but is unchangingly ready to bring any bride’s dreams to life.

Charlie – The Container Garden
At this year’s Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show, Charlie exhibited his outdoor living container garden. Now, we go overdue the scenes with him to see how he made it. Based virtually two shipping containers, this garden is for entertaining. Featuring dining, cooking and lounging areas on the ground and a fancy rooftop-style bar on top of one of the containers. With a mix of rustic industrial elements and high-end modern finishes, Charlie proves that recycling old materials is not only environmentally friendly, but moreover cool.

Dr Harry – Trekking With Llamas
If you like small-time walks or longer treks and are looking to mix-up the wits a little, then Dr Harry has just the thing for you. Trekking with Llamas. These no-go animals, originally from South America, are soft footed, make unconfined walking companions and have been trained to lead and siphon packs. So, if you love exploring the unconfined outdoors and you love Llamas or have only seen them in pictures and want to find out what all the fuss is about, trekking with Llamas should be on your skillet list.

7pm Friday on Seven / 7TWO.