Inverawe Native Gardens | Local business
Inverawe Native Gardens
Phone: 03 6267 2020
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25.01.2022 We will reopen Inverawe, Monday 11 May, first entry 9.00am,last entry 5.00pm, usual entry fee. With lots of space to roam safely, and the gardens looking really excellent after Autumn rain, there might just be some folk who would appreciate the exercise and the lift in spirits that goes with strolling through a large garden. With Tasmanian parks and gardens open Monday, if we all just remember the rules we can enjoy the environment and stay safe. Cheers!
23.01.2022 This is Eutaxia obovata, just coming into bloom. It is a small neat shrub with a brilliant display in early Spring. In other news, our "Create a Bird Friendly Garden" on October 18 is starting to fill up, so if you want to be in it, now's the time to book in!
21.01.2022 In this Autumn weather there are less of these guys around the garden, although we still have a fair few of them. The ones that have been here a while are used to people and don't go hopping off immediately. The bolder ones fan out over the countryside, taking advantage of seasonal grass growth. Take care on the roads, especially at night. It's their country, too.
20.01.2022 This is Maloney, our resident Tasmanian Tiger, the work of the very talented Lesley Perkins. We've just given him a nice new surround of "Tassie Gold" stone chips. Meet him when we re-open on 1 September - we'll be open 7 days a week till the end of May. If you subscribe to our newsletter the September edition will be in your inbox, this coming week. A PDF version is posted on our website.
18.01.2022 Our Melaleuca nesophila have finished flowering, so it's pruning time, to keep them healthy and vigorous. You can take up to a third off but don't prune below the last leaf junction. If your secateurs have been somewhere dodgy, clean them with disinfecant then give them a sharpen with a slipstone. If you're not sure about sharpening, ask for a demo next time you visit. We're open 7 days a week till end of May, then by appointment (just ring) right through winter.
18.01.2022 I have recently read the Channel Highway (Algona Road to Sandfly Road) Corridor Study Report. It includes a proposal for a shared cycle pedestrian path that might run around the edge of North West Bay. This would heavily impact the remnant salt marsh adjacent to the NW Bay Conservation area. The salt marsh is an important element in the ecology of the bay and is a habitat for a number of birds and other species. You only get one environment and once you’ve trashed it, that’s it. Image: Glasswort carpet, part of the salt marsh.
17.01.2022 Margaret picked the flowers for this vase, this week, in the depths of winter. Wattle, Bankias, Thomasia, Paper Daisies, Westringia, Hardenbergia and others all put in an appearance. Grow more natives - even if all you can manage are a few pots on the balcony! My father's garden was traditional, with a traditional plant choice -roses, phlox, petunias, and so on, but Mum could put a vase of flowers in every room, 52 weeks a year. So can you. With natives, this time around.
16.01.2022 This Yellow Wattle Bird is one of the 12 Tasmanian endemics - it loves this Grevillea. It fights a constant war with the New Holland Honeyeaters for ownership of it. No-one wins, no-one loses and no-one gets hurt. Birds have got it all figured out. Meanwhile, the Green Rosellas, another Tassie endemic, are busy shredding flowers on the Correas. Honeyeaters use their long tongues to get nectar from Correas, Rosellas just rip the flowers off, one by one, chew the back end to get the nectar and throw what's left on the ground. I'd prefer they didn't do that, really.
16.01.2022 This is Hakea multilineata which I found quietly flowering on one of our terraces - it is from SW WA. I've made a note in my diary to harvest seed later in the year - if the black cockies don't beat me to them! A bit more rain would be nice - July has turned out rather dry. I am enjoying all the frosts - providing you have frost hardy plants, various insect pests, diseases and fungii find the frosty weather a bit much to put up with. It's therapeutic.
15.01.2022 Thryptomene are small shrubs - this is Thryptomene FC Payne. We have a few of these in the ground and they are in bloom right now and stay in flower for a long time. They seem to be real tough guys, growing in dry conditions in very ordinary soil. I am told by the Head of my Flower Arranging Division that they last a long time as cut flowers in a vase. My sort of plant!
15.01.2022 Late Autumn, and the Grevilleas are putting on quite a display - birds love them! This is Grevillea Poorinda Elegance. Note the red stripe which just highlights the flower - I think it is designed to draw birds and insects in. This one is in a pot but we have some in the ground, too. They'll keep flowering for months.
15.01.2022 Paper Daisies - Xerochrysum bracteatum - native to southern Australia - are excellent as a cut flower and can be dried for floral displays. They self seed like mad so you are never without them. Over several daisy generations they tend toward the species colour, yellow, but you can fix this by growing some from packets of seed - available everywhere, but sold usually as Helichrysum. Once in flower they will cross fertilise and bring colour back into your flock. They also make good pot plants, and attract butterflies. Pretty good, eh!
13.01.2022 We do Workshops! and the good news is, we still have places available (our first few were fully booked). Book a place for "Plan a Native Garden", 25 October, repeated 15 November, or "Create a Bird Friendly Garden", 1 November. Bookings essential, $30pp, phone 6267 2020. Global warming, loss of habitat? Be part of the solution. Just do it.
12.01.2022 Our November Newsletter is now on our website. Read about our mystery plant, which numerous readers have identified as Orthrosanthus. The garden is looking superb. We are open 7 days a week, check times on our website, plus we are running a "Plan a Native Garden" workshop, Sunday 15 November, $30 pp, bookings essential, ph 6267 2020. See you in the garden sometime!
11.01.2022 Out latest product for those people who want a little bit more is The Guided Tour: The Inverawe Experience. Take a stroll around Inverawe with the Head Gardener - we'll talk about history, botany, landscape design, plant selection, and more. Bookings essential, $30 per person, minimum two people so bring a friend, phone 6267 2020, tour takes about an hour, enjoy a cuppa afterwards. Image: a recent guided tour. The tour guide is on the right.
10.01.2022 We're back from our un-holiday! We went nowhere, apart from walking around the garden, met no-one, apart from the mob at the local supermarket (stocking up on you know what!) did nothing apart from weeding, planting, pruning, turning the compost, the usual sort of stuff. The good news is because it's winter, the grass isn't growing - nothing to mow, and because it's rained the plants look very cheerful, especially the newbies! It will be a real picture when we reopen in the Spring! Image: Westringia brevifolia
10.01.2022 If it's September it's Spring and Inverawe is open to visitors. Our first two Workshops have sold out! We listed a "Plan a Native Garden" workshop for 20 September, which filled, put up a spare a week later and that's full, too. The image? Our Banksia slope. The Spring Banksias are in bloom, Call round and see them.
10.01.2022 North West Bay from Inverawe, looking SE to Bruny. The Acacia is a cultivar of A pravissima, from the SE Mainland. The pink shrub is Thomasia purpurea, a long flowering shrub from SW of WA. The guys with fur don't eat it, at Inverawe anyway, making it good value. 1 September is Wattle Day, when Inverawe will reopen for the season. See you in the garden sometime!
10.01.2022 Today, a tranquil landscape, looking down the Bay to North Bruny. The white dots, around the island, are seagulls, about a million of them. Inverawe is open until the end of May, and during winter by appointment (just phone to arrange) With an area of 9.53ha (that's 95,300 sq m) social distancing is not a real issue. With a social allocation of 4 sq m each that's a capacity of...let me see...ah...a few more people than we've ever had! See you in the garden sometime!
10.01.2022 Some of our visitors report that many tourism businesses are either closed or working reduced hours. Inverawe is open! Seven days a week till the end of May, first entry 9am, last entry 5pm, gates close 6pm. Call round and see us some time. The garden is looking great. Image: Calytrix tetragona, here looking classy despite being monstered by a Westringia, in poor soil and dry going. My sort of plant!
09.01.2022 Mountain laurel, Anopterus glandulosus - this is a pink flowering form. It's too dry in summer for us to grow these in the ground but they do well in pots. The garden is looking superb after recent rain - the plants respond almost immediately! There are lots of birds in the garden - our summer contingent are arriving back - the Cuckoos, and we've seen a couple of Summer Birds.
08.01.2022 This is Leptospermum Copper Sheen, a small shrub, in flower right now. It is a crowd stopper and is quite hardy. Next Sunday, 15 November, we are running our last workshop of the year - we may pencil in more of them for the new year. The workshop is "Plan a Native Garden" - if you want to be part of it, bookings essential, phone 6267 2020, $30 pp, more details on our website. See you in the garden sometime!
07.01.2022 Banksias are in bloom, on Rabbit Hill. (we've seen the occasional bunny, too). It must be spring. Rain overnight, gentle rain all day today, so good. The garden is loving it! See you in the garden sometime soon.
05.01.2022 This is Acacia "Scarlet Blaze" now in bloom. Many of our visitors have found them short lived but ours seem to be managing. (touch wood!) We re-open for the season Tuesday 1 September, Wattle Day and our Wattles are just superb. Not to mention Grevilleas, Banksias, Paper Daisies and few of the other guys. We'll be open 7 days a week till the end of May, first entry 9am, last entry 5pm - so we will see you in the garden sometime!
03.01.2022 Today, May 31, is the last day of our 2019-2020 season, and what an odd season it has been! After a slow start we were really roaring along, until the wheels fell off in April-May. We reopen 1 September for the 2020-2021 season. Let's hope things are a tad more normal then. We haven't scheduled any workshops yet but will keep an eye on the way the game unfolds. See you in the garden, in the spring! The birds, flowers and the blokes with fur are still here.
03.01.2022 Quiz time, boys and girls! Thinking caps to be worn in the "on" position. This is a mystery plant. Multi-branched, ground hugging, leaves glossy, waxy, opposite, spear shaped, 30mm wide by 30+ mm long. Flowers pink, insignificant, maybe 3mm dia, with masses of tiny petals radiating from the centre of the flower, like a daisy or the flower of a pigface that has been shrunk by a wizard. Almost certainly a weed or garden escapee. Any suggestions?
01.01.2022 This is our Tasmanian Celery Top Pine, and these red "fruit" are in fact the pine cones. Later in Spring these will turn brown and produce immense amounts of pollen - pines are wind pollinated. Many of our visitors think these are flowers with the tiny pine cones looking like petals in a circle. But hey! We're pine trees, we don't do flowers. We leave that to those Johnny come latelies, the flowering plants.
