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24.01.2022 Stay tuned at 3pm tomorrow for our next Instagram Live tour of Virginia Heywood's beautiful private garden in Seville. Make sure you 'like' our Instagram page Open Gardens Victoria and click on the message that appears when it starts!

24.01.2022 Applications for our giving program close on 31st December. If you have a horticultural project in mind you can apply for up to $10,000. Check our website for full details and the application form. https://opengardensvictoria.org.au//Giving%20Program_Onlin Pictured: Verdicus. This garden was opened November 2019, and 50% of proceeds went to the Tylden Primary School.

24.01.2022 Watch our Instagram Live tour today at 3pm. Our host Stephen Read will be chatting with garden lover Virginia Heywood as she shows us around her magnificent property in Seville. Not to be missed! Just 'like' our Instagram page Open Gardens Victoria and click on the message that appears when it starts!

23.01.2022 "When an engineer builds a veggie patch! 48 bags of concrete in the foundations, 6 months of iso' and its complete. Also 237 (yes we counted them) buckets of rocks carried up the hill to finish off the backyard." The following photos show the progression of this garden space during lockdown and is another entry to our Pandemic Garden Project competition. Enter by Monday the 30th of November for your chance to win a $100 gift voucher from Van Loon's Nursery. Full details of entry on our website. Judge: Heidi Martin Van Loon's Nursery

19.01.2022 Another entry for you Pandemic Garden Project Competition: "I started my new front garden in August this year during our second lockdown in Eltham, Victoria. I am a novice gardener with an interest usually in just Natives. I started with a drawing I made to scale to develop my formal Veggie/Flower garden idea, and it took off from there. It's still very much a work in progress." Enter our competition by Monday the 30th of November for your chance to win a $100 gift voucher from Van Loon's Nursery. Judge: Heidi Martin Van Loon's Nursery

19.01.2022 Here's another transformed space entered for our November "Pandemic Garden Project" competition. We wish all our entrants good luck as we await a winner from our judge Heidi Martin of Van Loon's Nursery. Prize: $100 gift voucher Van Loon's Nursery

18.01.2022 We have one more theme of the month for 2020! "What have you seen while out and about?" Send us images of what you are most enjoying as you make the most of our newfound freedom. Here we have pictured the "Urban Blooms" display created by Flowers Vasette to celebrate the iconic Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. What have you seen that's garden or plant related that inspired you?... Email high resolution images to: [email protected].

17.01.2022 If you don't have Instagram, or missed our last Instagram Live on Saturday, here's a link to the recording a lovely tour of Virginia Heywood's beautiful garden in Seville: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CIHyfsyl1Go/?hl=en

17.01.2022 This is a wonderful idea of how to grow your veggies! An enclosed vegetable garden! Our subcommittee member Gayle Parkes takes us on a mini tour of her friend's very abundant productive garden. Enjoy!

14.01.2022 Take a sneak peak at the next garden we'll feature in our Instagram Live "A Walk in the Garden" tour this Saturday! Virginia Heywood's garden was also included in the "Secret Gardens of the Dandenongs". Have a look at the video link below: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=338901107195251

07.01.2022 I always think there's something incredibly special when a kookaburra visits your garden. Our subcommittee member has a frequent kookaburra visiting her garden! Even perching itself ready for a spin on the motorbike!

05.01.2022 Hosta is our plant of the week, and there are so many varieties there's a plant for everyone! Whether it's an adorable miniature hosta for a pot in your garden or a mammoth monster of a plant to fill up a big space under a shade tree. It's a genus of plant that is also commonly known as plantain lilies and occasionally by the Japanese name gibshi. Hostas are widely cultivated as shade-tolerant foliage plants and are very long lived under the right conditions. Visit our website for more info on this perennial plant that really is a favourite among many gardeners. https://opengardensvictoria.org.au/Plant-of-the-week-2-3-4-5

04.01.2022 This entrant to our November "Pandemic Garden Project" competition is testament to a total garden transformation! The entrant writes: "Finally during Covid, we found the time to get all this concrete removed (it was a huge task!), and create a living, green and productive yet nourishing space filled with a variety of edibles and flowers. It is our happy place! We come out and pick fruit & veg daily and rarely need to buy anything from the greengrocers. We also enjoy the bir...ds, bees and all the insects that share this part of our garden with us." This competition is now closed as we eagerly await a winner! Judge: Heidi Martin Van Loon's Nursery Prize: $100 gift voucher Van Loon's Nursery

02.01.2022 King parrots seem to be frequent visitors to your gardens. They are so strikingly vibrant in colour! Here's a few snaps from three different gardens.

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