Open Gardens SA - Bostonvista
2025-10-25 10:00 - 2025-10-26 16:30 (Australia/Adelaide) | Bostonvista – open garden, Howard Avenue, Boston, South Australia, 5607, Australia
From a vacant block ten years ago, Bostonvista has matured into a beautiful, interesting garden with fabulous views over undulating farmland to Boston Bay and Boston Island.
With stone unearthed in the house’s excavation, the owners have built 163 metres of stone walls and an amazing entrance of mosaicked steps that lead down from the home to the garden, where beds of roses, bearded iris, rosemary, lavender, poppies, succulents, and natives create a blaze of colour.
A copse of wattles has created a natural shade house for impatiens, fuchsias, ferns, hellebores, iresine, and begonias. Groups of native plants, proteas, and many varieties of succulents, some in unusual, quirky, colourful containers, are scattered throughout the drier parts of the garden.
Garden Size: 2.5 acres.
Charity: Eyre Peninsular Home Hospice Services.
Extra Activities: Morning and afternoon teas. Plant stall. Raffle. Book stall.
125 Howard Avenue, Boston
Entry: $10 adults, under 18 FREE entry, some concessions are available. We encourage you to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.

Open Gardens SA - Crabapple Cottage
2025-10-25 10:00 - 2025-10-26 16:30 | Crabapple Cottage – open garden, Jean Street, Leabrook, South Australia, 5068, Australia
A colourful cottage garden surrounds a picture-book-pretty straw bale house designed for sustainable living. There are ornamental and productive plants, including 13 fruit trees, a frog pond, a small lawn and an entertaining area, all packed into the 700 square metre block.
A white picket fence separates the densely planted verge from the small front garden, both areas crammed with an abundance of annuals, perennials, roses, iris, lavender, gardenias, and the crabapple tree that gives the cottage its name. Plants, mostly in shades of blue and white with some touches of pink, have been selected to tone with and complement the cottage’s forget-me-not blue shutters and trim. Entry to the garden is through an arch covered with pink climbing roses and blue clematis.
Garden Size: 500 sqm.
Charity: Greenpeace, AWL, RSPCA.
Extra Activities: Jars of the owner’s award-winning jams and marmalade will be for sale, made with fruit grown in the garden. Morning and afternoon tea. Plant sales.
Entry: $10 adults, under 18 FREE entry, some concessions are available. We encourage you to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.
1 Jean St, Leabrook

Open Gardens SA - The Heritage Garden
2025-11-02 10:00 - 16:30 | The Heritage Garden – open garden, 12 McCord Lane, Sevenhill, South Australia, 5453, Australia
A garden lovers’ piece of paradise – a superb spot to stop and smell the roses! Roses are known for their exquisite beauty, and to see The Heritage Garden in spring when thousands of rose bushes produce countless fragrant blooms is a very special and never-to-be-forgotten experience! The roses are undoubtedly the superstars, but the garden was planned to have appeal throughout the seasons, and there are also many magnificent trees, shrubs, perennials and hedges. A long line of 22 arches is smothered with the soft pink heritage rose Souvenir de la Malmaison, and the lovely creamy white Lamarque climbs up the posts of the verandah.
In the surrounding garden, many different modern and heritage roses are supported by a profusion of old-fashioned perennials – iris, lavender, foxgloves, catmint, kiss-me-Kate, and seaside daisy perfectly complement the roses.
Open on Sunday, November 2 only.
Garden Size: 2 acres.
12 McCord Lane, Sevenhill
Extra Activities: Morning and afternoon tea. Plant sales. Sales of garden products and books. The Heritage Garden embroidery kits for sale.
Entry: $10 adults, under 18 FREE entry, some concessions are available. We encourage you to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.

Open Gardens SA - Etre
2025-11-07 10:00 - 2025-11-09 16:30 | Etre – open garden, Delaney Avenue, Willunga, South Australia, 5172, Australia
A delightful small garden packed with interest, designed by the owner who is an artist, garden designer and sculptor. The garden is opening for 3 days – Friday to Sunday.
Enter Etre through the red Tori with its rooftop garden of wild strawberries and kangaroo grass, and discover a delightful mix of plants, clever design, creativity, and sustainability.
Twenty-one fruit or nut trees and ten floriferous native and ornamental trees provide year-round food, fragrance and bright colour as well as ‘air conditioning’ in the summer months! This quiet sanctuary is the home of Evette Sunset, a garden designer and sculptor who cleverly uses natural materials, found objects and re-purposed building materials in her designs. The garden’s layout and the placement of plants have been carefully considered for visual as well as practical reasons.
Garden Size: 660 m2
Charity: Bassett Street Reserve is across the road. It is an imaginative neighbourhood project that Evette helped to design and coordinate.
Extra Activities: Light lunches, homemade healthy snacks, savoury and sweet. Morning and afternoon tea. Native and exotic tube stock for sale. Walk and talk at 11am and 2pm. Music and poetry reading.
Entry: $10 adults, some concessions are available. Under 18 free entry. Please bring cash as EFTPOS is not always be available.

Open Gardens SA - St Githas
2025-11-08 10:00 - 2025-11-09 16:30 | St Githas – open garden, Rosewarne Crescent, Bridgewater, South Australia, 5155, Australia
Magnificent old trees, superbly manicured flower-filled gardens, sweeping lawns, and a tennis court-sized, covered enclosure for fruit and vegetables surround St Githas, an elegant Federation-style home built in 1909. The two-acre garden was restored in 2020, and the new award-winning design by Sphere Landscape Design blends formality and contemporary English country style, generating visual impact whilst harmonising with the classic architecture of the home.
The planting is in parts formal and elsewhere an exuberant mix of perennials, bulbs and flowering plants. Roses are everywhere, filling the garden beds and entwined with clematis and wisteria over the arbours and climbing obelisks. Giant old oak and pine trees frame the property and create protected areas where shade-loving plants thrive.
Garden Size: 2 acres
Charity: Country Fire Service and SA Country Women’s Association
Extra Activities: Morning and afternoon tea by the Stirling CWA. Plant Stall. Display of James Hamilton sculptures.
Entry: $10 per adult, some concessions available. Under 18 free entry. Please bring cash as EFTPOS is not always be available.

Open Gardens SA - St Mary's Vineyard
2025-11-15 10:00 - 2025-11-16 16:30 | St Mary’s Vineyard – open garden, 563 V&A Lane, Penola, South Australia, 5277, Australia
This delightful country garden features the annual Limestone Coast Plant and Trade Fair.
A tree-lined driveway and drystone walls will lead you into the delightful country garden at St Mary’s Vineyard. Established in 1937, the Mulligan family have created an impressive property with the garden taking centre stage. Over the years, plants and bulbs suitable for the soil and climate have been planted, and now roses, bulbs, iris, hardy perennials, trees, and shrubs surround the classic homestead and outbuildings, adding colour and texture throughout the year. In spring, the many roses are at their best – the flowers of the many modern and heritage varieties, David Austins, and climbing roses create a superb show of colour and fragrance.
Garden Size: 4 acres.
Charity: SACWA Penola Terra Rossa Branch.
Extra Activities: Limestone Coast Plant and Trade Fair. Market stalls including plants. Dry stone walling demonstrations. Morning teas and light lunches.
563 V&A Lane, Penola
Entry: $10 adults, under 18 FREE entry, some concessions are available. We encourage you to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.

Open Gardens SA - Orcombe Farm
2025-11-15 10:00 - 2025-11-16 16:30 | Orcombe Farm – open garden, 49 Berryfield Road, Lyndoch, South Australia, 5351, Australia
Orcombe Farm is a one-acre country garden with superb views of the surrounding vineyards and Barossa Ranges. A bare site just eight years ago, the garden was designed and created from scratch by Aleisha Lynch, a third-generation Barossa horticulturist and previously the head gardener at the Paul Bangay-designed garden at Barossa Valley Estate.
Within the garden, there are beautifully colour coordinated perennial borders, areas for growing Australian natives, succulents and cut flowers, a vegetable garden and a productive patch with wicking beds and fruit trees. Since the last opening, Aleisha has established new garden beds and planted a carefully selected collection of Australian native plants.
The Garden at Barossa Garden HomeStay in Williamstown is open this weekend, too.
Garden Size: 1 acre.
Extra Activities: Coffee van. Plant stall. Walk and talk at 11am and 2pm.
49 Berryfield Rd, Lyndock
Entry: $10 adults, under 18 FREE entry, some concessions are available. We encourage you to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.

Open Gardens SA - The Garden at Barossa HomeStay
2025-11-15 10:00 - 2025-11-16 16:30 | The Garden at Barossa Garden HomeStay – open garden, Miamba Road, Williamstown, South Australia, 5351, Australia
In a slightly elevated position on a quiet country road, this garden looks out over a picturesque agricultural patchwork of vineyards, grazing land and gum trees to the distant Mt Lofty Ranges. A long garden bed in front of the house is dotted with many varieties of roses – from the big, blowsy flowers of the modern types to the soft, pretty old-fashioned look of David Austins, the roses are a vibrant and fragrant feature. Showy salvias, lavenders, gaura, daisies, agastache, grevilleas, and many other exuberant perennials intermingle and add to the bright, colourful display, designed to evolve through the seasons.
The garden to the side has a Mediterranean feel, with gravel paths and hedges of rosemary and teucrium edging beds filled with a mix of silver-leaved plants, succulents, and a variety of bird-attracting natives.
Orcombe Farm in Lyndoch is open this weekend, too.
Garden Size: 1.5 acres.
Extra Activities: Morning and afternoon teas. Plant sales. Ceramic birds on sale by Really Useful Pots.
46 Miamba Rd, Williamstown
Entry: $10 adults, under 18 FREE entry, some concessions are available. We encourage you to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.

Open Gardens SA - Kinclaven
2025-11-22 10:00 - 2025-11-23 16:30 | Kinclaven – open garden, Waverley Ridge Road, Crafers West, South Australia, 5152, Australia
Kinclaven is an historic two-acre garden surrounding a gracious old home that dates from the 1880s. The sloping site has been terraced, and the garden is a blend of different styles, varying from Italianate to English and Mediterranean to sub-tropical. The entrance court is spectacular – a fountain in an elegant, oval-shaped pond planted with water lilies and aquatic plants, and edged with clipped greenery, dramatically shoots a single spire of water high into the air. Small statues of cherubs positioned around the pond and other statuary add to the classical ambience. Magnificent mature trees, some as old as the house, create shelter and microclimates ideal for the eclectic collection of plants that have originated from all over the world. Camellias, rhododendrons, azaleas, and cold-climate plants blend harmoniously with lush subtropical species, contrasting with the strappy or sculptural shapes of Mediterranean plants and succulents.
Garden Size: 2 acres.
Extra Activities: Morning and afternoon teas.
56 Waverly Ridge Rd, Crafers West

Entry: $10 adults, under 18 FREE entry, some concessions are available. We encourage you to bring cash as EFTPOS facilities are not always available.

Open Gardens SA - PunkiPot
2025-11-29 10:00 - 2025-11-30 16:30 | PunkiPot – open garden, Strathalbyn, South Australia, 5255, Australia
PunkiPot, 8 East Street, Strathalbyn is a captivating, creative, clever and climate-compatible garden that is much loved and enjoyed by the owners.
With the imaginative eye of an artist and the green thumb of a keen gardener, Lou Ramsay and resourceful partner Ian have created a garden they call PunkiPot. Like its intriguing name, it is charming and unique!
The layout of the large block has been carefully considered to maximise its functionality, and every bit is crammed with interest and variety. Close to the house are sheltered spots for outdoor living, and in the surrounding garden, hedges create secluded little areas, each with its own purpose and individual style. In the exuberantly planted garden beds, colourful flowering plants mingle with the foliage and textures of water-efficient Mediterranean and Australian natives, as well as productive plants and fruit trees..
Garden Size: 2240m2.
Extra Activities: Morning and afternoon tea. Really Useful Pots selling ceramic birds.
Entry fees – Pay at the gate. The standard entry fee is $10 for adults. $8 for concessions for OGSA members and visitors with a pensioner concession card, health care card, and TAFE horticultural tertiary student concession card, but not a senior card. Admission is free for under 18s.

Open Gardens SA - Belltunga
2025-12-06 10:00 - 2025-12-07 16:30 | Belltunga open garden, Grant Avenue, Toorak Gardens, South Australia, 5065, Australia
Belltunga, 132 Grant Avenue, TOORAK GARDENS is a lovely 100-year-old home recently extensively renovated with a professionally designed garden.
A landmark three-metre-high cypress hedge, mature trees, and over half an acre of grounds surround Belltunga, a grand bungalow built in 1925 and celebrating its centenary this year. The home has recently been extensively renovated and the garden revamped with a modern and timeless design, yet in keeping with the traditional architecture of the residence.
The new layout retained many existing shrubs and trees, including a pair of very tall palms and an outstanding frangipani. Over the years, the extensive lawns have hosted many gatherings and garden parties, but now there is also a swimming pool and a sunken entertainment area with an impressive outdoor kitchen.
Size: 2600 sqm.
Charity: Clown Doctors, Women and Children’s hospital.
Extra Activities: Morning and afternoon teas. Sausage sizzle. The garden designer and maintenance crew will answer questions.
Entry fees – Pay at the gate. The standard entry fee is $10 for adults. $8 for concessions for OGSA members and visitors with a pensioner concession card, health care card, and TAFE horticultural tertiary student concession card, but not a senior card. Admission is free for under 18s.
