Upcoming Events

Both the heritage listed Cuppacumbalong House and the surrounding gardens will be opened to the public. The new owners are renovating the terraced gardens, in keeping with early 20th Century styles. The grounds, suitable for picnics, are framed by large shade trees and face onto the Murrumbidgee River, where a mown path leads to a small [...]

This garden is one of 15 demonstration gardens chosen under the ACT Government’s H2OK Healthy Waterways Program Stage 1. Water capture is integrated into the sloping, terraced gardens which also feature many ornamental and vegetable garden beds, herbs, fruit trees, a poultry enclosure, an orchid shadehouse, a winter glasshouse, pleasant sitting areas and themed art works. [...]

Established during Canberra’s most recent drought (2003-2008), this garden was transformed from an uninteresting and mostly bare yard, to a plant-filled colourful surprise. Sited on a gentle slope the garden is on several levels, filled with a mix of natives and exotics in the front and roses under-planted with cottage plants in the back. Flowering shrubs, [...]

Els' garden is on a quarter acre, gently south-sloping block, and includes a variety of ornamental zones front and back including a substantial variety of native plants. Phyla nodiflora on the nature strip leads to Isopogons sheltering under a silver birch and a Chinese pistacio, near a mature Myoporum floribundum. Mauve Prostanthera, Olearia and Westringia contrast [...]

Enjoy the sounds of frogs and moving water in this productive cottage garden without a lawn. In Spring the garden will be abloom with fruit trees (apricot, fig, plum and crab apples) and also feature a wisteria-covered arbour, camellias and bulbs. The owner’s efforts to establish a sound basic structure of visual rooms and access paths, [...]

The 3.5 hectare Fetherston Gardens provides a variety of garden styles which will appeal to a range of garden lovers. These include the eucalypt woodlands, the arboretum, the conifer grove, the pond, the native garden and the secret garden. The diverse gardens are linked by good paths. Comfortable seating, gazebos and shelters are located at various [...]

Two gardens, back to back, are set in a quiet, well treed neighbourhood of Oaks Estate, in a very historic part of the Region near the Queanbeyan River. The gardens have much to interest all, but are characterised by many autumn flowering perennials and shrubs. Native planted areas contrast with more reflective corners, vegetable gardens and [...]

Mcleods Creek Nature Reserve was established in 2010 to protect a rare remnant of box-gum woodland, of which only 5% remains. Even though largely cleared for agriculture, the resultant grassland is a valuable opportunity to protect and recover this endangered community. Please join us to view native grasses and groundcover species, and discuss restoration techniques applied [...]

An informal country garden with views of Lake George, designed to complement rather than compete with the landscape. The garden has extensive native grass areas with informal plantings of native and exotic trees. There are colourful beds of shrubs and flowers with designated areas and garden names corresponding to places, people and events in the families’ [...]

This garden flows beautifully, providing comfort and inspiration and framing views of nearby Mount Taylor. Careful plantings, featuring diverse and effective groundcovers, draw your eye to different garden rooms. A feature of the front garden are the ‘steppable’ plants in lieu of a front lawn. In the back garden the sloping land allows a beautiful dry [...]

Crace is a Canberra Organic Growers Community Garden - this is a relatively new suburb so the garden is providing a great opportunity for locals to get to know each other. The 2000-square-metre garden was built by Crace’s developers; there are 30 raised garden beds of varying sizes, and a few larger plots are shared by [...]

This attractive garden on a 540m2 flat block is just 5 years old and has achieved the owner’s aims to design a garden which is both easily maintained and fully accessible. Being a cottage garden there is interest 12 months of the year be it colour, flower, shape and/or foliage and the garden includes many rare [...]

This suburban oasis features a natural water pool from which you can admire the water lilies, lotus and water poppies. The garden is highly productive, containing vegetables and herbs. Espaliered pear, plum and apple trees are features, together with cherry, quince, apricot, feijoa, pomegranate and grapes. The Maran chooks enjoy their home under the inoculated hazelnut [...]

This mid-sized semi-formal garden features exotic trees, shrubs and perennials. Hedging and mass plantings create different spaces to relax and observe the bird life. The private backyard provides a tranquil environment for entertaining, a network of paths and a small lawn for adventure and play, and an integrated productive garden featuring chickens, a greenhouse and a [...]

This compact garden was started in 2007. The gardener has worked since then to turn a bare area into a beautiful cottage style garden dominated by bush, climbing, pillar, standard and groundcover roses.  Located on a sloping site, the garden has been designed so that one person, with chronic pain, can maintain the small site to its [...]

Planting of this large all-native garden began in 2003. Today the garden features over 1000 individual species, including more than 70 acacia species and more than 70 grevillea species, making for a spectacular spring display. A wide range of bird species frequent the garden and the number is increasing as the garden develops. Existing mature eucalypts [...]

A delightful one acre Mediterranean style garden designed around three main axis.  A series of garden rooms are delineated by plantings  including Leighton Greens, Pyrus Manchurian Pears and Westwoods, Italian pencil pines, Smaragds and Flowering Cherries. Hedging plants such as English Box, Lonicera Nitida and Pileata, Green Pillar Pittosporum and Princess of Wales have also been well-utilised in [...]

Historic European style garden with a heritage listed slab hut from 1830. The garden is laid out in  southern highlands style and surrounded by trees dating back to the early 19th Century. The more recent additions include a water garden. A profusion of old fashioned roses complements the setting. Download the Garden Notes     [...]

A very large suburban garden with an amazing variety of plants. Rock walls allow for built up garden beds with improved soil and drainage. English box hedges divide areas including a parterre garden. Large mirrors on the boundary fences create illusions of depth. See Christine's garden notes 2017        

‘Yellow Box’ comprises about a hectare of densely planted native plants of great variety, on an elevated rocky knoll. The garden, started in 1997, includes many meandering, pleasant paths taking visitors to many garden sections, including vegetable beds and an orchard. The 45 acre property, featuring some native pastures, also includes landcare shelter belts on its [...]

A classic garden to behold. Beautifully constructed rock walls divide rooms in a mature garden where lovely old trees embrace lawns and frame valley views. Cypress woodland opens to a dam abundant with bird life and water lilies. A forty metre rose arbour and berry garden enclosed with espaliered fruit trees are wonderful features of this [...]

The front and back gardens are partly shaded by large deciduous trees. The garden contains more sunny sections where there are many fruiting plants and there is a fenced vegetable garden. The backyard is family and children friendly. There are rain water tanks with extensive dripper systems. Garden has composting and poultry. The garden is adjacent [...]

The garden is a magical space with secret nooks and unseen hideaways where frogs, garden gnomes and fairies lay hidden until they can be discovered. There are spaces for the children to sit quietly undisturbed to play, relax and watch the world go by. There are spaces where they can run, pedal, skip, walk, race and [...]

The Charnwood Community Garden was established by the Canberra Organic Growers Society (COGS) in the late 1980s and consists of 45 individual plots which vary in size averaging 35 square metres. These are planted with a variety of fruit and vegetables, flowers and fruit trees. The garden showcases many different methods of growing produce and Community [...]

This garden has varied native shrubbery and fruit trees across the front and a very productive garden at the rear. Native birds abound in the varied habitat. The owner, a botanist, has special interests and knowledge of native flora and fauna. The back gardens comprise prepared beds with a wide variety of vegetables, herbs and fruit. [...]

Enjoy the ambiance of the Naturalists' garden in autumn. This large rambling native garden on a spectacular north facing block is adjacent to the Pinnacle Nature Reserve. Winding paths lead the visitor through open areas for outdoor living designed around a salt water pool. Exotic plantings of perennials, herbs, fruit trees, vegetables and roses have all [...]