RICHLY planted contrasting garden rooms create a feeling of spaciousness. Features Australian species only watered during establishment, colourful exotics including roses and geraniums, ferns and vegetables.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 4 Rickards Avenue.
When 10am to 4.30pm.
Admission: $6
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Flower Show – Sassafras
THE annual Ferny Creek Horticultural Society’s Flower Show is held in the society’s hall in the 10-acre ornamental garden reserve. Phone 9728 2356 for further information.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 100 Hilton Road.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:SEPTEMBER 17
Phil Johnson In His Garden.
Irrepressibly enthusiastic award-winning designer Phil Johnson will host a tour of his own exciting Olinda garden and explain his design objectives and philosophies.
The day is a special Australian Open Gardens event.
Phil Johnson specialises in the establishment of environmentally sustainable billabongs and water features replenished by storm water, within naturalistic landscapes where rock is used to spectacular effect.
There are many additional environmental and aesthetic aspects to this garden including on-site sewage and grey water treatment, bushfire prevention strategies and an outdoor theatre and hot springs.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: Olinda. Bookings required on 9537 3890 or online at www.opengarden.org.au.
When: 10am to 12.30pm.
Admission: $60.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:OCTOBER 10-11
Lonsdale Park – Launching Place
INTIMACY and a sense of space from vistas are nicely balanced in this well-designed cool-climate garden. Features include foliage colour, interesting trees and shrubs including ginkgo, liriodendron, taxodiums and magnolias, and a young woodland, orchard, vegetables and herbs.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 40 Lonsdale Park Lane.
When: 10am to 4.30pm.
Admission: $7.50.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Sherwood – Seville East
AN EXTENSIVE range of mature trees creates a verdant setting for an elevated A-frame house. Features maples, weeping and Scotch elms, flowering dogwoods, rhododendrons and other flowering trees and scrubs. Excellent drystone wall and large vegetable garden.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 49 Old Warburton Highway.
When: 10am to 4.30pm.
Admission: $6.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Kinvarra – Wandin North
PHIL Johnson’s award-winning design skilfully blends two constrasting garden traditions of a naturalistic landscape and cottage-style plantings. Features beautifully constructed pools roses and perennials within formal box-hedged beds.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 13 Rodger Road.
When: 10am to 4.30pm.
Admission: $6.
OCTOBER 17-18
Giverney – Toolangi
THE LARGE pond strewn with water lilies that inspired the garden’s name is the centrepiece of this restful, cool-climate garden, which is flanked by tall native trees. Features weeping maples, rhododendrons, azaleas, clematis, irises and tulips. Enjoy a bush-walk around the lake and the kiwi fruit orchard.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 69 Cherry Lane.
When: 10am to 4.30pm.
Admission $6.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Nanna’s Garden – Toolangi
THIS IS the garden of a knowledgeable and dedicated plantswoman. Carefully designed, it allows plants the space to realise their potential. Mature trees shade charming intimate areas including a secret garden. Younger but established rare and unusual trees and shrubs including halesia, kalmia, alniphyllum, zenobia and physocarpus are a feature, as are the espaliered apple trees.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 1718 Healesville-Kinglake Road.
When: 10am to 4.30pm.
Admission: $6.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:OCTOBER 24-25
Mast Gully Gardens – Upwey
AN impressive waterfall tumbles over rocks into a lily pond at the entrance to this well-landscaped garden. Features extensive flowering shrubs and trees as well as conifers. Golden elms underplanted with hydrangeas and a creek lined with hydrangeas and tree ferns are features.
@BT Sport Sub Mail:Where: 20 Dealbata Road.
When: 10am to 4.30pm.
Admission: $6.
