Open Garden - Heatherby

29 Longwood Rd Stirling

Heatherby’s majestic old trees tower over and create a leafy green setting for the charming white weatherboard cottage that was once the childhood home of renowned nursery man, Quentin Wollaston of Raywood Nursery. You can explore this delightful shady and serene garden as part of the Open Garden Scheme on 20th and 21st November between 10 am and 4.30 pm. Devonshire Tea will be available, along with live music on Saturday and a garden ‘walk and talk’ on Sunday. All funds raised will benefit the Women’s and Babies’ Division of the Women’s and Children’s Hospital.

The driveway is bordered by pink ‘Bonica’ roses, cerise ‘Princess Maude’ azaleas and a formal box hedge. In front of the house, beds of hydrangeas in full flower open onto the central oval lawn and from here a walkway leads to a seating area enclosed by a circular hedge. Nearby a rocky waterfall trickles into an informal pond, its edges softened with an assortment of plants including a profusion of seaside daisy.

Shade provided by the canopy of tall trees creates the perfect microclimate for Daphne ‘Eternal Fragrance’, hydrangeas, camellias, rhododendrons, fuchsias, arthropodiums, clivia, gardenias, azaleas, hellebores and lilly of the valley.

Children will love to explore the ‘wild woods’ that are beyond the formal gardens and tennis court, and with the railway line at the bottom of the garden, there are ideal vantage points for train spotting!

Thank you to the sponsors of this event: Vili’s Family Bakery and Dulwich Bakery Cafe.

Tickets are $8 and $6 for OGSA Members and for those with a Commonwealth Government Pensioner Concession Card or Health Care Card (not Seniors Cards). Current Season Garden Owners and TAFE Horticultural Tertiary students are also entitled to the $6 concessional entry. Children Under 18 are FREE. These cards must be shown at the gate.