New Zealand Garden Events
Howick Orchid Society Show, Auckland
4 October, Fencible Lounge, Uxbridge Rd, Howick, Auckland
Display tables, competitions, Orchid plants will also be for sale.
Open 10.00am - 4.00pm; Admission $4.00;
Clivia Show, Auckland
4- 5 October, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens, 102 Hill Road, Manurewa, Auckland
spectacular Clivia Show will be held in the Botanic Gardens Covered Courtyard over two days. Open to everyone, with plenty of displays, sales and demonstrations
Contact Visitor Center for details Tel +64 (0)9 267 1457
Clivias in Your Garden, Auckland
5 October, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens, 102 Hill Road, Manurewa, Auckland
Learn more about these beautiful plants, with nurseryman Terry Hatch. This talk coincides with the 2003 Clivia Show
Open 11.00am - 1.00pm; Admission $8.00; Contact Visitor Center for details Tel +64 (0)9 267 1457
Ruapuna Garden Symposium, Canterbury
18 - 19 October, Ruapuna, Ashburton District, Canterbury
Held every two years. A weekend of gardens, seminars, workshops and garden art.
Open 9.00am - 4.00pm; Admission $2.00; Contact Jan Early Tel +64 (0)3 303-6213; Email ruapuna@paradise.net.nz
The Bromeliad Show, Auckland
19 October, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens, 102 Hill Road, Manurewa, Auckland
Bromeliads are fast becoming the 'in' plant - come along and discover the variety available at the Bromeliad Show with plant sales and displays. Held in the Botanic Gardens covered courtyard.
Contact Visitor Center for details Tel +64 (0)9 267 1457
The Vege Patch, Auckland
19 October, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens, 102 Hill Road, Manurewa, Auckland
raising your own vegetables from seed! Botanic Gardens Senior Gardener Stuart Robertson will show you how to be self sufficient with your veges. Hands-on workshop includes seed collecting, sowing, pricking out and planting. Held in the nursery.
Entrance $10.00 per person; Booking essential; Contact Visitor Center for details Tel +64 (0)9 267 1457
Bromleiad Society Spring Sale, Auckland
19 October, Auckland Regional Botanic Gardens, 102 Hill Road, Manurewa, Auckland
Bromeliad Society of New Zealand's Spring Sale and displays
Open 10.00am - 4.00pm; Entrance $3.00 per person
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Garden Events Overseas
Bowral Tulip Carnival, NSW, Australia
25 September - 6 October, Southern Highlands, NSW, Australia
Cobbett gardens tulip display, gardens open to the public, plus food and wine...
Contact Tel +61 (0)2 4861 3133 or freephone +61 1800 188 547; Website www.tuliptime.hinet.net.au
Tesselaar Tulip Festival, Vic, Aust
13 September – 12 October, 357 Monbulk Road, Silvan, Victoria, Australia
A European-style spring celebration, fields of colourful tulips, blooming daffodils and freesias, along with traditional Dutch food and music in Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges is the place to be!
Open 10.00am to 5.00pm daily. Entrance A$12.00 for adults (A$10.00 for concession, free for under 16 year-olds) Advance tickets available. Contact +61 (3) 9737 9811, Email enquiries@tesselar.net.au Website www.tulipfestival.com.au
RHS Flower Show, London, UK
7-8 October, RHS' Lawrence (Greycoat St) and Lindley Halls (Vincent Sq), London SW1, UK
Autumn fruit and vegetable, plus ornamental plant displays and gardens,by leading nurseries
Open: 17th 11.00am - 7.00pm; 18th 10.00am - 5.00pm. Entrance: Adults GBP5.00 (non-members only)
Recorded information Tel +44 (0)20 7649 1885; Website www.rhs.org.uk
Branches on an Old Tree, Melbourne
18 October – 16 November, Domain House, South Yarra (prev. The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art), Melbourne, Australia
A year in the making, this exhibition is a beautiful collection of images celebrating the symbolic and the actual nature of Chinese plants, within walking distance of the garden that inspired it. A collaboration by fine art photographer Susan Purdy and Terry Smith, curator of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne’s Southern Chinese Collection.
Contact: Tel: +61 (0)3 9252 2429
Journees d'Automne, Courson, France
17 to 19 October, Domaine Courson, Courson Monteloup, France
A wonderful show with displays, plants and goodies for sale and more. See our Review of the May 2001 show.
Ticket prices: €13.00 adult (Groups €8.00), available at the gate; Contact: Domaine de Courson, 91680 Courson-Monteloup, France; Tel. +33 (0) 1 64 58 90 12, Fax +33 (0) 1 64 58 97 00
E-mail coursondom@aol.com
Web site www.coursondom.com
La Primavera Festa, Victoria, Aust
26 October Lavandula, Hepburn Springs, (approx. 1.5 hour's drive from Melbourne)
Celebrate as Lavandula awakens from the dormancy of winter. Lavandula is a Swiss-Italian farm. Learn about the new tastes of the season and how to cultivate specific plants in their own backyards. A range of organic fruits and vegetables will be available for sale, as well as herbed vinegars and lavendar products.
Open: 11.00am - 5.00pm; Contact: Tel:+61 (0)3 5476 4393; Website www.lavandula.com.au
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