Tuesday, October 4, 2011

A Day In The Open Gardens

Spring on Mt.Tamborine is the time for the Springtime On The Mountain garden festival  this year there were only six gardens.

Spending the day inspecting beautiful gardens is one of life’s greatest delights. 

The weather was perfect with a cool south westerly blowing

I had problems with the light when taking photos so some photos were discarded.
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There were lots of tourist buses around with some big queues to get into a couple of the gardens, I seemed to time things just right and missed out on all that.

This one used to be a nursery many years ago:
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Here is a shrub with a spectacular perfume, it’s common name is Yesterday Today and Tomorrow:

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The inscription on this reads” In memory of all the beautiful plants that died here at the hands of my husband:
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A beautiful view from this garden on the southern end of the mountain, in the distance you can see the peak of Mt.Warning. Over the edge is the land warfare centre at Canungra.
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Driving around the mountain there are many spectacular hedges of May:
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Here’s an assortment from various gardens:
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