Australia's Open Garden Scheme

Tasmania Special Events

As well as our extensive and exciting program of open gardens, which can be found here, Australia's Open Garden Scheme also has an exciting range of Special Events throughout the year.

Some events require pre-booking and as numbers are strictly limited we urge you to book well ahead of time to avoid disappointment.

Degustation at the Grange
Campbell Town

Sunday 26 September 2010. 10am-3.30pm

Booking details:
Bookings are essential for this event as places are very limited.

Tickets $65.00 includes talks, lunch, morning & afternoon tea.

You can book online via our secure site here or phone (03) 6429 3175 during business hours.

Hosted by well-known horticulturalist and garden designer Tim Barbour, this is an opportunity to meet some inspiring individuals who enrich our lives through their writings, gardens and enthusiasm for life.

'Gourmet Farmer' and noted food writer Matthew Evans has been involved in food and cooking for many years, and will talk about how he came to own a small patch of Tasmania where he grows his own food, raises pigs, milks cows and sources wonderful local produce.

Derelie Cherry lives at Kulnura on the NSW central coast with her plant-hunter husband Bob, two dogs and their aptly named property Paradise with its superb roses, plants that Bob has cultivated, and a nursery.

Writing, organics and promoting gardens is a passion for Helen Cushing who will take us on a journey that embraces Tasmanian life and the wonderful opportunities we share.

Mark Wapstra is writing a book tracing the origins of both botanical and common Tasmanian plant names, and he will talk about his story of discovery.

This stimulating and exciting event will be held at The Grange, one of Campbell Town's most significant original buildings surrounded by a tranquil garden of mature trees and informal garden beds.

Tamie Fraser at Strathmore
Evandale

Thursday 18 November 2010. 1.30pm-4pm

Booking details:
Bookings are essential for this event as places are very limited.

Tickets $60.00 includes afternoon tea.

You can book online via our secure site here or phone (03) 6429 3175 during business hours.

Join Tamie Fraser, President of Australia's Open Garden Scheme, in the superb garden of Strathmore.

Tamie will talk about her long involvement with the Scheme and her love of gardens and gardening.

Guests will enjoy afternoon tea under the trees in the grounds of Sue and Graham Gillon's historic home, and afterwards join Sue and Tamie for a personal tour of the garden.

Lawns sweep down to the water's edge of the huge mill-race lake, and the garden is framed by beautiful old oaks, unusual hedges and mature robinias. Beds of perennials, roses, herbs and lavender surround many of the trees and two long formal rose beds have been planted as the centrepiece of an old walled garden.

Kate Herd at Conmel
Tamar Valley

Sunday 28 November 2010. 10am-noon

Booking details:
Bookings are essential for this event as places are very limited.

Tickets $50.00 includes morning tea.

You can book online via our secure site here or phone (03) 6429 3175 during business hours.

Kate Herd is an artist and garden designer who is not only passionate about perennials and heirloom vegetables but has a keen interest in bush revegetation.

Kate's gardens are designed to be beautiful, functional and sustainable - she is a firm believer in making gardens places to live, play and learn in, with a touch of whimsy. Kate's forthcoming book on kitchen gardens features productive gardens right across Australia and includes Conmel's famous potager.

Join Kate for morning tea and hear why she passionately believes we should all grow our own produce, then accompany Geraldine and Brett Flood for a tour of their treasured garden.

Tickets for our pre-booked events being held in 2011 will be available from early October, please check back then