More Farm Gate Gardens open day

It really was a beautiful garden.  

Many little garden rooms and plenty of bench seats scattered throughout.

Not much lawn....not enough for a family game of backyard cricket

the up side of that is not much lawn mowing

Perhaps just a bit too much decoration and little bits of this and that.

But

All in all there was something for every one.

 Lots of plants with the wow factor

It is easy to see why this plant is called the bird of paradise

These are from the same artists as the crazy birds. 

They tell me the duck is a new design.

  I am inspired to continue to work towards opening my garden to the general public.

I know I would like to see more vegetable gardening examples.

Open gardens are generally ornamental types.

Vegetable gardens can be very beautiful as well as useful.

I have to confess I have been slipping some flowers into the vege circles

I think luscious leafy green circles are impressive but the compliment of Asters around the edge just made the whole thing more impressive.

I sold many bunches of flowers from those Aster plants.

Farm Gate Gardens Open weekend

I am not fond of two day markets but the setting for this Cancer research fundraiser

was so beautiful I enjoyed having a stall.

We took the nursery section of our regular market stall.

There was a steady stream of garden lovers all day, many veteran green thumbs

and several fresh faced beginners who were full of anticipation 

We had many of the Salvias that featured in the garden for sale in 3 inch pots.

Anything that was flowering was popular.

I had small crimson chrysanthemums in flower, they were my best seller.

 There were some Garden Art people there with their creations

I am very fond of these crazy birds, bought one for my mother in law



 for her 80th last year
They have such quirky expressions

I was very pleased to have them guarding our plants over the weekend

 The garden is just like a 1/4 acre house block but seems much bigger.

Paths meander through many different garden rooms that are filled with points of interest.

OH & S spoils all the fun. The kids fort is now out of bounds

Loved the bird house village

This path leads to the cafe area, all under shade sails and filled with plants.

This is the vege garden section, a good lot of herbs but I would need more silverbeet

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We set out our tins to make a rainbow, but difficult to get the full impact,

 it did make it easy to find the produce.

Having trouble uploading photos today so I will save some up for my next post