Open Gardens in Adelaide part 2

Buckets of St Cecilia roses - $5 per bunch!

Well hello there!

I’m back with part 2 of my visit to gardens participating in the Open Gardens scheme.

This is the second of the two we visited, a property that the owners had lovingly transformed to provide vegetables, grapes and a great place to relax only a relatively short time earlier.

The workload must have been back-breaking because it had one of the steepest driveways known to man.

Unfortunately the light was a little glary and most of the photos of the rose bed that I took were too washed out, these are the best.

Finally to round it all off, here are some photos from my parent’s garden. Hope you like them!

Happy gardening!

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