It’s mid-way through spring, so take some time to visit and enjoy the open gardens before summer arrives. Open Gardens SA then takes a short break and returns in 2025 to bring you more fabulous open gardens.
Open Gardens SA is delighted to present the mid to late spring program of open gardens for 2024. Open Gardens SA is a not-for-profit organisation opening privately owned gardens to the public.
All gardens open from 10am until 4.30pm on the dates listed. General entry to each garden is $10, and $8 for Open Gardens SA Members and for those with a Commonwealth Government Pensioner Concession Card or Health Care Card. Under 18 receive free entry. Visitors are encouraged to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.
Late October 2024
26 - 27 October
Ashgrove Iris Garden – 53-55 Albert Street, Gumeracha
This will be the 25th year of Ashgrove Iris Garden opening to the public. This lovely flower-filled garden has been enjoyed by many thousands of visitors over the years. Ashgrove Iris Garden is a relaxed, pretty one acre country style garden.
Claire’s Garden - 14 St Peters Terrace, Willunga
A large and pretty cottage garden crammed with flowering plants, also veggies and fruit trees. Paths curve through beds crammed with a charming, colourful mix of roses, perennials and bulbs, including many old-fashioned cottage garden favourites.
Christine’s Cottage Garden - 17 St Peters Terrace, Willunga
The vivid red blooms of the Kordes rose ‘Florentine’ cover an archway and gate, both decorated with sprays of ornate metal rose flowers and foliage, making a characteristic entrance to Christine’s Cottage Garden.
Fiddlestix - 58 Holly Rise, Coffin Bay
Fiddlestix is an amazing garden, full of surprises that will make you smile! Situated on an exposed rocky limestone hill with harsh growing conditions, the resourceful owner has added quirky collectables, found objects and bright mosaics to create interest and a touch of fun to the garden.
November 2024
2 - 3 November
Anna's Garden - 26 Gladys Street, Clarence Gardens
A vibrant suburban garden overflowing onto the verge with succulents, agapanthus and iris planted under the beautiful jacaranda street trees. The lawn has gone inside the front fence, and in its place is a colourful assortment of roses, salvias, cottage plants and fruit trees.
03 November (Sunday ONLY)
The Heritage Garden - 12 McCord Lane, Gillentown (Sevenhill)
Roses are known for their exquisite beauty, and to see The Heritage Garden in spring when thousands of rose bushes produce countless fragrant blooms, is a very special and never-to-be-forgotten experience! Twenty-five years ago, world-renowned rosarians Walter and Kay Duncan used their expertise and vision to transform a paddock into a lovely and tranquil garden.
9 - 10 November
Drouin – 12 Mossop Court, Littlehampton
An avenue of mature trees leads into Drouin revealing 5 acres of stunning flower-filled, colourful and extensively planted gardens. In all there are more than 900 roses. Shrub roses in all shades make a dazzling display with added pizazz from the many climbers that cover arches, arbours and a domed gazebo.
10 November (Sunday ONLY)
Edenwood - 10 Hutchens Road, Woodside
Tucked away at the end of a quiet road and hidden by a dense band of trees is Edenwood—an expansive park-like garden with many unexpected surprises! Owners Bev and Stephen are keen re-cyclers and starting from the ornate iron fence along the front boundary, they have used pre-owned materials to construct the many distinctive structures in the garden.
16 - 17 November
St Mary's Vineyard - 563 V&A Lane, Penola
This delightful country garden with its hundreds of roses is a fitting location for the annual Limestone Coast Plant and Trade Fair. Over the years, plants and bulbs suitable for the soil and climate have been planted, and now hundreds of roses, bulbs, iris, hardy perennials, trees and shrubs surround the classic homestead and outbuildings.
Bellosguardo Estate - 107 Blocks Road, Birdwood
As in classical Italian gardens, pencil pines stand tall amongst tightly clipped hedges and topiary softened with many roses, lavender and flowering plants. Views over neighbouring vineyards add to the Italianate feel. A superb spiral sculpture constructed from bricks, a well-stocked vegetable garden and beautiful stonework.
Pam’s Garden - 3 Edgcumbe Terrace, Rosslyn Park
A gardener’s colourful, climate-compatible garden crammed with ornamental and productive plants. Pam is a keen gardener and as an enthusiastic member of the Mediterranean Garden Society, she has created a garden in tune with South Australia’s Mediterranean climate of long hot summers and cool wet winters.
23 - 24 November
Malvern Gardens – 2 in 1 - 48 Clifton Street and 193 Wattle Street, Malvern
The Malvern Gardens, one in Clifton Street and the other in Wattle Street, are back-to-back properties owned by two generations of a garden-loving family.
30 November – 1 December
The Mosaic Garden - 376 Glynburn Road, Kensington Gardens
Anne Martin creates mosaic masterpieces! Topiary pear trees laden with ripe yellow fruit, vines dripping with plump green grapes, pencil pines in pretty pots, flowering bird of paradise plants, birds, frogs, fish and fountains are just some of the stars of her amazing colourful garden – and they are all made of mosaic.
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