THE three-day Festival of Gardens was established in 1991 and attracts garden enthusiasts from far and wide.
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Entry is $6 per person for each garden. All gardens are open from 9.30am to 5pm from October 12 to 14, unless otherwise stated.
Marj & Mick Careri
This spacious botanical garden is rich with hundreds of roses of all colours, sizes, shapes and textures.
Surrounded by a range of beautiful orange trees and a vineyard, and hedged by a wall of roses, flowering trees and a variety of shrubs, this garden has many rooms to explore, as well as a gazebo and jetty over a picturesque pond.
- 2355A Stokes Road, Hanwood
- Supporting: Binya School
- Providing: Morning/afternoon tea and lunch
Lyndsay & Brian Sainty
This cottage garden shows there is an abundance of possibilities for town gardens.
The east side of the house features textures of different hedges and the west side features a lush tropical walkway. The garden is filled with pops of colour and there are many varieties of established trees.
- 38 Carrathool Street, Griffith
- Supporting: Griffith Carevan
Joy & Bruno Plos
Enrich your gardening knowledge as Joy and Bruno talk about the heritage, heirloom and rare plants.
David Austin perfumed roses cascade over arbours and arches, a sunken rose garden bordered by irises and the tranquility of a water fountain and vegetable garden.
- 5 Maegraith Place, Somerton Park
- Supporting: Griffith Social Dancers Inc
- Providing: Morning/afternoon tea and lunch
Tori Horder & Lawrence Salvestrin
Davit Farm is an evolving, gracious three-acre garden divided into spans with French and Italian influences. The main delights are formal lily pond, a Monet lake and bridge, a white-trunked forest, a May and Mulberry walk, species rose garden and spectacular dry stone work.
- Farm 2527 Cashmere Road, Widgelli
- Supporting: Griffith Riding for the Disabled
- Providing: Morning/afternoon tea and lunch
Rina & Santo Mercuri
With an abundance of roses and intricate ornaments it is easy to fall in love with this garden. Admire the water feature and be transported to Amalfi at the sight of the colourful climbing bougainvillea and vines, pizza oven and alfresco open fire.
- 1 Candice Place Lake Wyangan
- Supporting: Country Hope
- Providing: Morning/afternoon tea and lunch
- Open: 9.30am to 5pm, October 13 and 14
Piccolo Family Farm
Soldier settler Hugh Macgreath pioneered “Lakeview” (Farm 1814 Lake Wyangan) in about 1921. The original home and remnants of its garden form the foundation of this temperate garden and working citrus farm. Fruit, vegetables and herbs among stone borders provide valuable produce.
- 125 Mallinson Road, Lake Wyangan
- Supporting: Murrumbidgee Conservatorium of Music
- Providing: Pop-up café
- Open: 1pm to 5pm October 12, 9.30am to 5pm October 13 and 14
Garden tours
ONE of the easiest ways to visit the open gardens is to take a Garden Festival bus tour.
The tours will visit four gardens and include a garden workshop with Jason Hodges.
Tours depart from the Griffith Visitor Information Centre and tickets are $60 per person.
Friday (9am-3.30pm)
- Gardens: Mercuri, Plos, Horder/Salvestrin (lunch), Careri
- Workshops: Getting creative with landscaping and ornaments; Creating shade in your garden
Saturday (9.45am-4.30pm)
- Gardens: Mercuri, Piccolo, Plos (lunch), Sainty
- Workshops: Turf talk; Spring veggie patch; Inspirational garden ideas
Sunday (9.30am-3.45pm)
- Gardens: Sainty, Horder/Salvestrin, Careri (lunch), Piccolo
- Workshop: Reviving mature trees