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- Held over two consecutive weekends, the first around Melbourne and the second in country Victoria, Garden DesignFest opens professionally designed gardens that showcase the work of many of Australia's best-known and award-winning designers such as Rick Eckersley, Lisa Ellis, Paul Bangay, Sandra McMahon, Robert Boyle and Stephen Read.
Melbourne Garden DesignFest 2016
Melbourne’s Garden DesignFest in 2016 offers the opportunity to visit more than 40 professionally designed gardens on two weekends during the spring peak of November:
Melbourne Garden DesignFest first weekend:
November 12 and 13, 2016 – city gardens throughout Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula
Melbourne Garden DesignFest second weekend:
November 19 and 20, 2016 – country gardens in Euroa, Ballarat, Bendigo, Macedon Ranges, West Gippsland and Geelong.
Spend an intoxicating weekend seeing gardens designed by such famous designers as Robert Boyle, Lisa Ellis, Rick Eckersley, Paul Bangay, Richard Bellemo, Eugene Gilligan, Jamie Clapham, Deborah Hambleton and many more.
The range of 2016 gardens has a range of both city/suburban gardens, and regional Victorian gardens. So that it’s possible to get to so many gardens over such a wide geographical area, the event is being held over two weekends, one for the gardens in and near Melbourne, and one for the regional gardens. You will find something for everyone, from small inner city gardens, to suburban gardens, to broad acre country gardens.
The garden designers will be in their gardens over the weekend to chat with visitors about the design principles, materials and plant choices they have applied to meet the particular characteristics of the site and the client’s brief.
The Melbourne DesignFest 2016 list of designers and their designed garden includes:
Gardens open 12-13 November 2016 – Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula
Lisa Ellis – 27 Carnarvon Road, Caulfield North
Robert Boyle – 15 Riverside Road, Ivanhoe
Jamie Clapham – 67 Albany Road, Toorak
Inge Jabara – 20 Melton Avenue, Carnegie
Paddy Milne – TBA
Mark Pedley – 210 Were Street, Brighton East
Diane Beddison – 62 Bryson Street, Canterbury
Sue Meli – 72 Dalton Street, Gisbourne
Stephen Read – 2 Euston Street, Malvern
Sandra McMahon – 73 Pascoe Avenue, Kilsyth
Paul Pritchard – 111 Rathmines Street, Fairfield
Betsy-Sue Clarke – 108 Sackville Street, Kew
Richard Bellemo – 4 Glan Avon Road, Hawthorn
Carolyn and Jobie Blackman – 272 Domain Road, South Yarra
Eckersley Garden Architecture – 21 Rochester Road, Canterbury
Andrew Murray and Julie Daniel – 15 Myrtle Grove, Blackburn
Mark Vanden Boom – 8 Trafalgar Street, Mont Albert
Eugene Gilligan – 14 Merriwee Crescent, Toorak
Tom Remfry – display garden at 4 Villa Mews, Vermont
Gardens open 12-13 November Mornington Peninsula
Eugene Gilligan – 24 Morell Street, Mornington
Ben McDonald – 187 Ocean Beach Road, Sorrento
Clive Abben – 33 Deakin Drive, Mount Martha, AND 7 Douglas Court, Rye
Steve Taylor – 14 Tallis Drive, Mornington
Eckerlsey Garden Architecture – 371 Musk Creek Road, Flinders
Gardens open 19-20 November 2016 – country Victoria
Paul Bangay – 267 Longwood Gobur Road, Creightons Creek
Roy Roberts – 8 Brewster Street, Woodend
David Musker – 125 Palmer Road, Jindivick
Deborah Hambleton – 33 Clowes Street, Malmsbury
Richard Bellemo – 357 Remembrance Drive, Cardigan
Kylie Rose Blake – 35 Pre-Emptive Road, Scarsdale
Robert Boyle – 142 Longwood Gobur Road, Longwood
Gail van Rooyen – 948 Top Road, Terip Terip
Eckersley Garden Architecture – 224 Longwood Mansfield Road, Creightons Creek
Christian Jenkins – 70 High Ridge Drive, Clifton Springs
Peter Shaw – 48 Harvey Street, Anglesea
Stephen Read – 221 Noble Street, Newtown
Lee Adams – 123 Neale Street, Flora Hill, AND 328 Nankervis Road, Mandurang
You can find all the details about each of the gardens and the designers, as well as more photos on the GardenDesignFest website
For those unfamiliar with Melbourne or who don’t want the worry of a long day’s drive there are Garden DesignFest guided bus tours to gardens on both weekends. The tour means you can fit in even more gardens and still have a relaxing day out. Our knowledgeable guides will provide background information on each of the gardens and its designer, and commentary and discussion about the gardens.
Garden DesignFest is organised and managed by Rotary volunteers and all of the funds received are donated to charity. Over the previous 6 DesignFest events we have raised almost $400,000 for charity. In 2016, we will be allocating proceeds to the three major charities: the Monash Children’s Hospital, Sporting Chance kids cancer foundation and also the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute’s research into Friedreich Ataxia.
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For single garden entry, there is a scale of prices depending on the size of the garden:
Small gardens -$5
Medium gardens - $8
Large gardens - $12
The size of each garden is indicated on our Garden DesignFest website.
All Gardens ticket provides entry to all gardens open on the appropriate weekend:
All Gardens entry to all Melbourne and Mornington Peninsula gardens and on November 12/13 - $60.
All Garden entry to all Regional Victorian gardens on November 19/20 - $50
Tickets may be purchased in advance on the GardenDesignFest website, or on the day at each garden.
Note that prices are being developed for an "all garden entry" for each separate Region e.g. a ticket for Euroa, for Ballarat etc. Once this is finalised, details will be included on the web site.
Bus tours may also be booked on the web site, and full details of routes and prices are on the web site.