Events & WA Open Gardens
Western Australia

This diary has been compiled combining information from various sources. The Gardeners' Circle takes all care, but no responsibility for its accuracy. Please check details with relevant providers before attending.

JANUARY 2010

Jan 23 & 24: Open Garden: Monarch Butterfly Garden, Rockingham

FEBRUARY 2010

Feb 13-14 Garden Clubs & Societies Fair at Cannington Exhibition Centre, Cnr Albany Hwy and Station St, Cannington. Enquiries: Dr Margy Clema, 9453 3393, fax 9453 3294 or email margy@whistlepipe.com.au
Feb 28 & Mar 1 (Labour Day Long weekend) Hyde Park Community Fair. Free entry.

MARCH 2010

Mar 11 Old Roses, Tea Roses, Glen Forest. 10.30am to 12.30pm. Bookings essential. Tickets $55 includes talk, garden tour and morning tea. Ph (08) 9295 0497
Mar 13-14 The Begonia Society of WA. Special Event Exhibition, Memorial Hall, Bentley St., Donnybrook. March 13th 12 noon to 5pm, March 14th 10am to 4pm. Admission $5 includes Morning/afternoon tea. Plant sales. Details: Phone (08) 9731 1926 or email: begoniaswa@live.com.au
Mar 13-14 Araluen’s Fremantle Chilli Festival – moved to The Esplanade, Fremantle
Mar 20 Perth Medieval Fayre, Supreme Court Gardens, 10am to 4pm
Mar 21 Harvey Harvest Festival. 9am – 4pm Snell Park, Harvey.
Mar 27-28 Open Garden – Ivy Rose garden, Leeming.

APRIL 2010

Apr 11 Bulb Sale 10am to 3pm, CWA Rooms, Gidgegannup Show Grounds, Toodyay Rd, Gidgegannup. Daffodils, Dutch iris and small quantity of other bulbs.
Enquiries: Keith Robinson 9574 6534.
Apr 15-20 Garden Week, Perry Lakes, Enq: Nursery & Garden Industry of WA (08) 9358 4811.
Apr 16-17 Kalamunda & Districts Agricultural Society Show, Kalamunda Agricultural Hall. Enquiries: Pam Edwards 9454 5228.
Apr 17 WA Gerbera Society’s Display at the Collins St Centre, Collins St (Cnr Shaftsbury St), South Perth. Opening 10am to 4pm, Admission $3. Enquiries: 6363 6468.
Apr 18 Open Garden Scheme Event – Slow Food at Yandee. Cnr Hall & Woodlands Rd, Toodyay. Open 10am to 4.30pm. Talks 11am & 2pm. Entry $8 (no charge for children under 18)
Apr 24-25 (Anzac Day weekend) Open Garden Kalamunda – Sierra Verde.
Apr 24-26 (Anzac Day weekend) Open Garden Manjimup – Balbarrup.
Apr 30-May 2 Festival of Country Gardens. Autumn. Country gardens in the hinterland of the South West of WA www.countrygardens.com.au

MAY 2010

May 1 & 2: Open Garden – Jill Capper’s garden, Kojonup
May 1 & 2: Open Garden – Pine Avenue, Kojonup
May 1 & 2: Open Garden – Sunshine House, Kojonup
May 5-10 The National Chrysanthemum Convention at the Belmont Shopping Centre and City of Belmont. Enquiries: Frank Blackwell 9534 8238.
May 8-9 A smaller festival also in South West “Autumn Delights”
Enquiries for both: Email: mail@countrygardens.com.au Ph:9764 1111.
May 8-9 Three Open Gardens in Broome – McAlpine House & Captain Kennedy’s House, Serendipity Farm and Wavesong.
May 15-16 Two Open Gardens in Ferguson Valley – Lonicera and Tumbarumba.
May 29-30 Open Garden in Karnup – Amberley Gardens.

AUGUST 2010

Aug 7-8 Cymbidium National Show at the Cannington Agricultural Hall, Cnr Albany Hwy and Station St, Cannington. First time the National Show has been held in WA. Flowering Cymbidiums for sale. Enquiries Alice Lang 9257 1056.
Aug 20-22 Cymbidium Orchid Club of WA Spring Show at Ezi-Gro Orchids, 76 Evandale Rd., Darch. Flowering Cymbidiums for sale. Enquiries: Helen 0419 197 043 or Ezi-Gro Orchids 9343 2761 or Alice Lang 9257 1056.
Aug 19-23 Nannup Flower & Garden Festival

SEPTEMBER 2010

Sep 5-19 Ravensthorpe Wildflower show.

OCTOBER 2010

Oct 8-10 Festival of Country Gardens Prelude. Countryside gardens in the hinterland of the South West of WA. www.countrygardens.com.au
Oct 9 WA Gerbera Society Championship and Spring Show at the Collins St. Centre (Cnr Shaftsbury St), South Perth. Open 10am to 4pm. Admission $3. Enq: 6363 6468.
Oct 16 & 17 Gardeners’ Circle members Open Garden: ‘Craigmile’, 3 Ashmore Ave., Canning Vale. UBD ref 349:Q12. Open 10am-4.30pm . $6 . There will also be a needlework display. Florence & Gordon McRae’s garden has a formal front garden of roses, shrubs and ‘Little Gem’ magnolias. This is reached by an avenue of crab apples, iris and ‘Blushing Pink Iceberg’ roses. Melaleucas, ‘Wedding Day’ roses, Virginia creeper and Clematis montana. Fruit trees, a veggie garden and a salvia and euphorbia collection are among the garden’s attractions on half an acre.
Oct 16 The Mandurah Spring Flower Show at Accent, Mandurah (formerly Senior Citizen Centre), Ormsby Terrace, Mandurah. Enquiries: Coral 9535 3736.
Oct 23 & 24 Gardeners’ Circle members Open Garden: Cynthia Mahony’s garden is located at 3 Eden St. Dudley Park, Mandurah UBD 535:H1. Open 10am-4.30pm. $6. There will also be an artwork display. It is described as a cottage garden with dense plantings of colourful and perfumed plants, including roses, perennials, gardenias, honeysuckle and buddleias. Cynthia’s garden uses cannas and plants with good foliage combinations. Spring bulbs, annuals, salvias and daylilies are grown between veggies and herbs.
Oct 24 Gardeners’ Circle members Open Garden: New member, Bev Coleman’s 2 acre garden ‘Amberley’ is located at 200 Fletcher Rd. Karnup. UBD 496:P12. Open 10am-4.30pm $6. There are ancient tuarts complemented by deciduous trees. Look for liquidambars, robinia, bauhinia and spring flowering paulownia and borders of roses, bulbs, annuals and perennials. A fernery with fountains and ponds are in a sunken garden. Also veggies and chickens and koi ponds. This property is also open for special events.
Oct 30 Kalamunda & Districts Agricultural Society Spring Flower Show. Kalamunda Agricultural Hall. Enquiries: Pam Edwards 9454 5228.

NOVEMBER 2010

Nov 4-7 Festival of Country Gardens Main Festival. Countryside gardens in the hinterland of the South West of WA. www.countrygardens.com.au
Nov 28 Gardeners’ Circle members Open Garden: Wendy Prnich’s ‘Embroidered Garden’ is located on Lot 2909 Lennard St. Herne Hill. UBD 212:D6. Open 10am-4.30pm. $6. Approach from Great Northern Hwy, Barrett St, turning into Lennard St near Sittella Winery. This is a homestead garden in a vineyard setting of 12.5 acres featuring 100 roses underplanted with perennials, espaliered fruit trees, an olive grove and hedge and vegetable parterre together with quinces, silver pears and an arbour of Japanese pagoda trees

Interstate
Jan 6-7 Tropical Affair at Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt. Coot-tha, Qld. Displays, talks, Sales including rare Cordylines, Bromiliads, Heliconias & gingers.
Jan 9-10 Lillium & Bulb Society of SA Annual Show at Hahndorf Institute, Hahndorf, S
Feb 6-7 International Cordyline Society Tropical Affair, Brisbane Botanic Gardens. Mt Coot-tha, Brisbane Qld.
Mar 6 Casino Garden Clubs Annual Flower Show at Casino Civic Hall, Canterbury Street, Casino, NSW.
Mar 6-7 Wollongong Horticultural Society's Centenary Year & 99th Autumn Flower Show Festival at Bulli Show Society Pavillion, Grevillea Road off Princess Highway, Slacky Flat, Bulli, NSW.
Mar 13-14 Kur-ringai Garden Festival at St Ives Showground, Mona Vale Road, St Ives
Apr 17-18 Mt Annon Botanical Gardens Annual Autumn Plant Sale. Plant sellers from all over NSW.
Oct 30-Nov 4 Melbourne Iris Convention – Carnival of Colour.
Enquiries: vis.melb.2010@gmail.com
Nov TBA Garden DesignFestival. 22 private gardens opened to raise money and awareness for charities supported by Rotary Kew.
Nov 14-15 Australian Fuchsia Society’s Annual Show, Adelaide, South Australia.
Enquiries: Janine Channon (08) 8283 2970

WANT MORE INFORMATION?
• For Open Gardens weekly updates go to: www.opengarden.org.au
• Go to the Horticultural Council website www.horticulturalcouncil.com.au - click on “show dates”

Overseas
Mar 10-14 Ellerslie International Flower Show, Christchurch, New Zealand at North Hagley
Park. www.ellerslieflowershow.co.nz
Mar 16-May 16 Keukenhof Holland. 32 Ha historic park filled with blooming tulips, hyacinths, daffodils and other spring bulbs. 15kms footpaths, unique flower shows in different pavilions. www.keukenhof.nl
Apl 25-May 18 24 day Garden tour of Venice, Tuscany, Umbria & Rome, lead by Gayle Monzu, Gardening Friends Western Australia. Enquiries: Dimitra Hall at Morcombe Travel, 1/32 Eastbrook Tce, East Perth, Tel:1300 552 805, email: brisbane@morcombetravel.com
May 6-9 Malvern Spring Gardening Show in Worcestershire, UK
May 25-29 Chelsea Flower Show.
Jun 16-20 BBC Gardeners World Live, the NEC, Birmingham.
Jul 6-11 Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, East Molesey, Surrey.
Jul 21-25 RHS Show Tatton Park at Moreheath Lane, Knutsford, Cheshire, UK

For details of UK events go to www.rhs.org.uk/shows-events/