Tonight | Better Homes and Gardens on Channel 7: coastal home and WIRES rescue – Johanna Griggs and Charlie Albone tour a Sydney Northern Beaches home with an unexpected exterior, while Dr Harry visits WIRES as the wildlife rescue organisation marks 40 years. Episode 61 of Better Homes and Gardens airs Friday 13 November 2026 at 7pm on Channel 7 and 7two, and is available on 7plus.
The visit to WIRES brings the work behind wildlife rescues into view. Dr Harry meets the volunteers who care for injured and orphaned animals before they can return to the wild, giving this week’s mix of homes, food and gardening a wider Australian focus.
Johanna and Charlie explore a Northern Beaches home
On Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Johanna and Charlie take viewers through a coastal property with five bedrooms and several living areas. The home also has a wine cellar, gym, self-contained studio and a lift. Its exterior cladding provides the surprise: the material is an unusual choice that changes the way the garden and house sit together. The tour looks at how those spaces work as a home as well as the design detail that sets the property apart.
Dr Harry visits the WIRES Recovery Centre
Dr Harry goes behind the scenes at WIRES’ new Recovery Centre. The organisation’s volunteers have spent 40 years rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing Australia’s native wildlife. Their work ranges from emergency callouts to caring for orphaned joeys, birds and reptiles, and nursing injured animals until they are ready for release.
WIRES has helped more than two million native animals to date. During his visit, Dr Harry meets some of the centre’s current patients, including Raffa, a brushtail possum joey. The segment follows the people doing that daily care as well as the animals they are helping.
Cherries, native gardens and a curved pergola
Colin Fassnidge heads to Cherry Hill Farm in Victoria’s Yarra Valley to pick cherries. George Riseborough established the farm in 1940, and the business remains in the family with fruit still picked by hand. Colin then makes a Christmas dessert with the harvest: a dark chocolate and cherry trifle layered with chocolate mud cake, cherry coulis, chocolate cream and a nutmeg and cinnamon yoghurt cream.
Charlie tackles a sunbaked front lawn that is no longer being used. He replaces it with hardy Australian natives and sculptural succulents, creating a layered garden designed to need less maintenance. Graham Ross also turns to native plants on a return visit to East Coast Wildflower Farm on the NSW Central Coast. He looks at flowering varieties and offers advice on growing them in pots and garden beds.
For a hands-on building project, Adam Dovile explains how to make the curved pergola seen in an earlier makeover with Charlie. Hardwood battens form the curve and continue down the wall, giving viewers a way to recreate that feature at home.
Juliet Love looks ahead to Christmas with ideas for layering festive lighting. She considers lighting across the house and garden, as well as ways to bring sparkle to the dining table without making the setup expensive.
Better Homes and Gardens airs Friday 13 November 2026 at 7pm on Channel 7 and 7two, and is available on 7plus.
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