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Bruce Demonstration Garden
Bruce Demonstration Garden CNR Purdie and Battye Streets, Bruce, ACT, AustraliaThis demonstration garden run by the Horticulture Society of Canberra has vegetable and flower gardens and a small native garden. There are many experimental plantings. At the time of opening an extensive collection of dahlias and salvias will be in bloom. Bruce Demonstration Garden Notes 2021 are available. BOOKING Eventbrite bookings are required for [...]
Mitchell Community Garden
Mitchell Community Garden Nirta St.,, Mitchell, ACTThe Mitchell Community Garden is one of 12 community gardens operated by the Canberra Organic Growers Society (COGS) and has been operating since 1994. Gardeners are allocated individual plots, which they put to productive use, growing organic food for themselves and their families using sustainable organic gardening practices. A mix of different cultures among the plot-holders [...]
Dual delights: Christine’s Garden and the Blended Garden
Christine's Garden 48 Weathers Street, Gowrie, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaTwo delightful gardens just 200 metres apart in Gowrie and Fadden. BOOKING: Eventbrite bookings are required for all members and visitors except children. Special ticket prices apply to these two gardens - $15.00 for both gardens. Members of Open Gardens Canberra will receive information on obtaining their free tickets. Christine's Garden This very large and ever-popular [...]
Baker Garden
The Baker Garden 20 Wells Gardens, Griffith, ACT, AustraliaA gardener’s garden completely redeveloped over the past eleven years on a 930 sq m Canberra block and designed to provide colour and interest all year round. Includes many sculptures plus stone walls and bird baths. Pine bark mulch, drippers and no lawn make it a low maintenance garden. Hidden behind lattice at the rear are [...]
The Wright Place
The Wright Place 58 Faithfull Circuit,, Kambah, ACT, AustraliaWork commenced on this almost 1000 square metre property in April 1975 and has continued unabated since. The front garden consists of four terraces with the bottom terrace featuring a gabion wall and the top terrace being strongly influenced by the owners' travels in Asia. Of particular note are the Torii gate, spill bowl and 15 [...]
An Enchanted Garden
An Enchanted Garden 4 Paull Place, Kambah, ACT, AustraliaAdults and children alike will be enchanted by this delightful garden. The owner, a successful potter and mosaicker, as well as a skilled gardener, has created a garden with surprises and beauty at every turn. This no-lawn and waterwise garden, which has evolved over more than twenty years, combines both natives and exotics to pleasing effect. [...]
Gubler Garden
Gubler Garden 55 Earle St., Lyneham, Canberra, ACTThe front garden of mostly natives under a Manchurian pear opens on to a shaded lawn under a massive pin oak. Surrounded by maples, forest pansy, camelias, crab apples, peonies, and roses there are many spots to sit and enjoy this delightful, large well-maintained garden. A prolific vegetable garden, with berries and espaliered fruit trees makes [...]
Nevertire
Nevertire 1 McEwan Avenue, Queanbeyan, NSWThis large naturalistic garden contains plants selected for hardiness in this exposed site and suitability for their 1880s cottage, which was moved to this site in 1925. The owners have re-developed the garden using a large range of both native and exotic plants including spring bulbs, unusual roses and Mediterranean shrubs and ground-covers. The garden includes [...]
Mediterranean Garden
Mediterranean Garden 37 Molloy Crescent, Cook, ACT, AustraliaThis garden combines a sustainable productive vegetable garden (with automated wicking beds and a very special chicken run) and a hedged cottage garden.
Davenport Garden
Davenport Garden 31 Bainton Cres, Melba, ACTThis garden contains a colourful intermingling of a wide variety of native and exotic plants in the front garden. The informal planting features mature trees, evergreen and deciduous shrubs and hardy perennials.
Garran Gem
Garran Gem 2 Richardson street, Garran, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaGarden statues, art, sitting areas, fire pit, stepping stones, and a hand painted feature wall
G and J’s Garden
G and J's Garden 2 Raoul Place, Lyons, ACT, AustraliaSet on a large sloping block with spectacular views this garden has been developed over more than 20 years.
CANCELLED – Kathleen
Kathleen 21 Downey St, Karabar,, Queanbeyan, NSW, AustraliaThe opening of this garden has unfortunately been cancelled.
Gini’s Garden
Gini's Garden 4 Tamar Street, Red Hill, Canberra, ACTA pretty established cottage garden on an awkward sloping block. In spring, the dogwoods are a picture; in the autumn deciduous trees and vines add colour.
Vasey Garden
Vasey Garden 46 Vasey Crescent, Campbell, Australian Capital TerritoryThis is large garden on a steep north facing slope, with a treasury of over 500 species of flowering and non-flowering native trees, shrubs and groundcovers.
Cook’s Garden
Cook's Garden 24 Fitzharding Street, Evatt, Canberra, ACTSloping garden with extensive plantings. Includes many peonies, camellias, tree ferns, and features a beautiful climbing rose (Pierre de Ronsard) at the front, and a pond and extensive vegetable garden in the rear.
Triple Treat – Tigminou
Tigminou 9 Gipps Street, Barton, ACTA garden inspired by countries the owner’s family call home: Morocco, France and Australia. Located in a heritage precinct in Barton.
Triple Treat – Kingston Organic Community Garden
Kingston Organic Community Garden 11 Currie Crescent, KingstonDisused tennis courts have been transformed into a viable community garden, with a shed, water supply, and garden beds.
Triple Treat – Janet’s Garden
Janet's Garden 14 Young Street Barton, ACT, AustraliaThe garden includes many mature fruit trees, vegetable beds, traditional ornamentals and special floral interests including irises and peonies.
Sarah’s Garden
Sarah's Garden 45 Middleton Circuit, Gowrie, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaThe garden's 40 year history is present in the old fruit trees, remnant pine trees, an old camellia, roses, and the curved pathways, steps, and rock structures. New courtyards, garden beds, steps and paths follow the original template.
Christine’s Garden
Christine's Garden 48 Weathers Street, Gowrie, Canberra, ACT, AustraliaRock 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.
Pillan’s Garden
Pillans Garden 30 Aspen Rise, Jerrabomberra, NSW, AustraliaThe garden features over 1000 individual species, including more than 70 acacia species and more than 70 grevillea species, making for a spectacular spring display.
Cook Community Garden
Cook Community Garden Bindubi St, Cook, ACTThe Cook Community Garden, established in 2001, is situated at the southern end of Bindubi St. The 5000sqm garden is leased by Canberra Organic Growers Society Inc from the ACT Government. Currently the garden has 46 very active gardeners of all ages and backgrounds working 55 allotment style plots ranging in size between 50 and 15sqm. The garden is always on the lookout for keen gardeners to join and embrace organic growing principles, especially the younger generation. There is an off street carpark adjacent to the garden. The nearest toilets are located at Cook shops. Entry is free.
Whitlam Climate-Wise Garden
Whitlam Climate-Wise Garden 3 Klaus Moje St, Whitlam, ACTWith hot summers and cold winters, Canberra’s seasonal conditions affect how plants grow. Gardens also need to be resilient as climate change brings more extreme weather events. Choosing the right plants for Canberra’s climate and soil is key to building a climate-wise garden that will thrive now and into the future. Suburban Land Agency’s (SLA) Innovation Precinct in Whitlam has a thriving climate-wise garden, planted in 2022 and showcasing resilient garden design. The garden has been designed with its natural context in mind- supporting local plants and wildlife while thriving in the local weather conditions across all four seasons. The garden was designed by Place Logic as part of SLA’s Innovation Precinct, a place for demonstrating sustainable homes and gardens to inspire more sustainable living. The plants chosen for the garden were selected from the SLA’s Climate Wise Garden Designs booklet, a key resource for residents in new suburbs and available to visitors on the day for free.
Tea Gardens
Tea Gardens 10 Yirawala St, Ngunnawal, ACTTea Gardens Homestead, dating back to the 1860s, is one of Canberra’s oldest residential homes, located on a peaceful half acre block, overlooking the 4th hole of Gungahlin Lakes Golf Club. Since 2021 the garden has been completely transformed from a steep sloping block suffering from drought and overgrown with periwinkle, to a beautiful blend of cottage, native, traditional and productive styles. It perfectly complements the homestead’s historic charm. ‘The Vineyard’ was established in July 2024. The front garden development has been ongoing since the property was purchased in 2020. They are highlights of this truly inspiring garden.
Merryway
Merryway 51 Euree St, Reid, ACTLocated at the centre of Reid, this well-established garden is enclosed by a curved camellia ‘Yuletide’ hedge. Behind it is a lawn area with leafy borders featuring a variety of maples. In the back garden a formal area near the house features hedges and clipped balls, along with fruit and flowering trees and a small vegetable garden. Autumn brings scarlet tones to the large vine-coloured pergola while in a secluded corner an enormous old fig tree stands proud. At the rear the garden takes on a wilder aspect with bulbs and groundcovers sheltering beneath birch trees. Over time the garden has been adapted to change with family needs, maturing plants and the climate.
Woodbury Garden
Woodbury Garden 1048 Old Cooma Rd, Googong, NSWA garden not to be missed. Set in rolling countryside, this beautifully designed and maintained 40 year old garden comprises sweeping beds of interesting and unusual Australian native plants and trees, including Gymea Lily, Angophora, banksias, kangaroo paws, grafted Grevilleas, Lomatias, unusual Hakeas and so much more. You will also find an exotic plant section, extensive rock retaining banks, a dam, ponds with fountains, and an attractive bog garden with a winding wooden walkway and massed with pretty native violet. Productive garden buffs will also enjoy an amazing fully-enclosed orchard full of berries and espaliered fruit trees, a separate large set of raised rabbit-resistant vegetable beds and a sheltered circular garden for cut flowers, roses and citrus. Refreshments and food will be available and there are places to sit and relax if you want to bring your own picnic. There is also a toilet on site.
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Opening hours: | Gardens are open from 10am to 4pm Saturday and Sunday unless otherwise noted in the garden description. |
Member entry: | Garden entry is free for members. |
Visitor entry: | Garden entry is usually $10.00 for visitors 18 years and over, unless otherwise noted in the garden description. |
Memberships: | Join Open Gardens Canberra for only $30 and all gardens are free for the membership year (to end June). |