Holberry House Pond
Holberry House Open Garden
Blythe Cottage complete with Alstromerias
If you tried to measure the Nannup Garden Festival alongside the Chelsea Flower Show you would be sorely disappointed. However, for a very small town, they have an overabundance of gardens and gardeners which were zealous about their hobby.
We didn't arrive there until Sunday afternoon so the mood of many of the stalls and gardens was geared to finishing up and leaving. While this was okay (we didn't have too many people going out of their way to sell us anything) we did ponder the virtue of coming a day earlier.
The town, and even the outskirts, had opened up many of their gardens for the public to wander through and view. Holberry House, an accomodation lodge with incredible gardens, was one of our favourites with cascading waterfalls and a duck-infested pond.
The other highlight was Blythe Cottage which apparently holds a Guiness World Record for the largest tree dahlia (7.8m). This cottage seemed uninhabited on first glance but after tripping on the owner's dog and pilferring some of the juicy loquats we realised it wasn't.
Nonetheless, it was a fantastic trip out there and we were blessed with some awesome weather. I'll certainly mark the calendar for next year.
Garden Nannup Festival
2 comments:
It's always interesting to go and see someone else's garden. I haven't been to Chelsea or any of the big staged flower shows. I seem to have an aversion (probably unwarranted) to them simply because they're staged. I want to look at real gardens. They don't have to be immaculate; just something to give me inspiration.
We spent 3 weeks in WA early last year, mainly to watch the National Hockey League, but we did spend a week travelling the southwest (had coffee by the water in Busselton, but didn't catch the train to the end of the pier). I don't think we actually went into Nannup, just turned and headed south to Pemberton. It was quite dry when we were there (where wasn't it dry then?) but there is some spectacular scenery over there. We must go again. I'll let you know when so that you can boil the kettle!
Anytime Alice. You'll be sad to know that the train isn't working at the moment and doesn't look like it will re-emerge any time soon.
Nannup is extremely dry and you could see the effects of the some very hot days already taking their toll on the landscape.
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