The biennial Walcha Garden Festival is on this weekend.
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Visitors will have the opportunity to look at six beautiful, cool climate, private gardens to the east of Walcha thanks to the Walcha Garden Club.
Morning tea and lunch will be available while relaxing under a shady tree, or browsing the arts and crafts stalls displaying the talents of local residents.
Gardens open to the public include: Kanimbla, Rushbrook, Wirraway, Springvale, Mirabooka and Wyandra.
Four of the six gardens have already been featured in the Walcha News and this week we look at Tony and Jan Gaudron’s Mirabooka and Graham and Shelley Marchant’s place Wyandra.
There are plenty of easy-care ground covers and perennials including erigeron, lamiums, achillea, violets and campanulas at Mirabooka, with low box hedges and lamb’s ear (stachys byzantine) used to border paths through woodland and to add definition to garden beds.
Crepescule roses climb pergolas and are espaliered along the front fence. The garden features basalt rocks for edgings and dry stone walls.
At Wyandra the Marchants designed the garden to complement the amazing views of the Oxley Wild Rivers gorge country with extensive use of colour and foliage to create formal areas. This delightful garden, pictured, is unique.