Friday 28 November 2014

Open Gardens in Adelaide part 1



I’ve just come back from a holiday in my home town of Adelaide in South Australia. While I was there we visited two gardens that were participating in the Open Gardens Scheme, a scheme where private gardens are opened to the public for one or two days on a weekend for a small charge and money raised goes to their favourite charity and to keep the scheme going (when I was doing research into this I discovered that Open Gardens Australia is calling it quits at the end of this spring–autumn season so get out there now while you can). The information that was on the website about these gardens has now been taken down so I can’t confidently tell you more than that they were both in the Adelaide hills area.


These photos were taken at the first place we visited– a small farm with a few grapevines and horses.


They had some sculpture on sale and these were dotted about the garden;


a topiary bed, including a holly bush;

hedges between the sheds;



weeping trees – a silver birch on the right and mulberry on the left;


and roses and flowers everywhere









Happy Gardening
Sue

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