Country Women’s Association Saturday 7 April Sunday 8 April Kandos Branch 10am–4pm: Eleven open gardens in and around Kandos, 10am–4pm: Eleven open gardens in and around Kandos, Rylstone, Running Stream and Ilford Rylstone, Running Stream and Ilford 10am: Welcome to Country at The Convent, Kandos 10am–11.30am: Satellite event at Lue – traditional (enter via the carpark off Dabee Road or Dangar Street, Chinese bonsai values and principles; demonstration and next to the Catholic church) talk by Phillipe Tot, Lingnan Penjing Academy, Lue. 11am: Fresh flower arranging – demonstration by Open Saturday & Sunday, 0404 157 822 Geraldene Nutting at Keewaydin, Running Stream 10.30am: Fermented foods for the gut and garden – talk by Gardens Fair 11am: Seed sourcing with Dennis Grimshaw at Pat’s Place, Christine Corner of Crave Natural at The Convent, Kandos Sat 7 & Sun 8 April 2018 Rylstone (also at 3pm Saturday and 11am & 3pm Sunday) (also at 3.30pm Sunday) 12midday: the Japanese artform Kokedama – 11am: Seed sourcing with Dennis Grimshaw at Pat’s Place, demonstration by Bonnie Farrell at Hazelgrove, Kandos Rylstone (also at 3pm Sunday) ... Every garden tells a story ... (also at 12midday Sunday) 11am: Maintaining and landscaping a country garden – 1.30pm: Dry flower arranging – demonstration by talk by special guest speaker Gay Stanton at Lara, Rylstone Visit eleven open gardens Geraldene Nutting at Redbank, Ilford 12midday: the Japanese artform Kokedama – in and around Kandos, Rylstone, demonstration by Bonnie Farrell at Hazelgrove, Kandos Running Stream and Ilford 2pm: Creating a garden artwork with succulents – demonstration by Bonnie Farrell at Hazelgrove, Kandos 12.30pm: Developing a micro business from your love of Saturday & Sunday 10am–4pm; (also at 2pm Sunday) gardening – talk by Christine Corner of Crave Natural at look for the red & orange flags 3pm: Seed sourcing with Dennis Grimshaw at Pat’s Place, The Convent, Kandos Guest speakers & demonstrations Rylstone (also at 11am & 3pm Sunday) 2pm: Creating a garden artwork with succulents – including Gay Stanton, landscape designer; 3pm: Maintaining and landscaping a country garden – demonstration by Bonnie Farrell at Hazelgrove, Kandos Christine Corner, Crave Natural ... & more talk by special guest speaker Gay Stanton at St Veda, Ilford 3pm: Seed sourcing with Dennis Grimshaw at Pat’s Place, Stalls, food & entertainment Rylstone Music and poetry including plants, produce, artwork, ceramics, 3.30pm: Fermented foods for the gut and garden – talk by garden books, food & refreshments, Throughout both days, throughout the gardens, there will Christine Corner of Crave Natural at The Convent, Kandos be performances and recitals: come and hear guitarist and exhibits, musical recitals ... & more songwriter Pete Foerster; harpist Gwenda Davies; Food and refreshments Tickets at the garden gates singer Diana Rawlinson: Harmonies in the Garden; Tea, coffee, light lunches and other food and refreshments $20 for all gardens or $5 per garden Kandos and Balmain ukelele groups; guitar duo John and Reg: Unplugged; Kandos High School band: the (including Devonshire teas) will be available from many of or buy tickets online at the gardens on Saturday and Sunday: please see the garden www.visitmudgeeregion.com.au Fruit Stickers; country and folk band: Bush Rock as well as poetry recitals by Gordon. For performance times see descriptions for details. or phone 02 6372 1020 www.kandosgardensfair.com or ask at the garden gates. Thank you to Ilford–Running Stream CWA, Rylstone CWA, (small booking fee applies) Kandos Museum, Rylstone Public School and Rylstone & This event is dedicated to June Keech – a tireless gardener and creative More information designer who loved to dig. She created and re-created many beautiful Kandos Volunteer Rescue Association, and to Deb Cooke, www.kandosgardensfair.com gardens and was a driving force behind the gardens fair. Although the Dave Standfield and the garden owners. www.facebook.com/KandosGardensFair idea of a garden competition was discarded many years ago, her garden was always the unofficial winner of the People’s Choice award. Thank you to the Kandos Gardens Fair BYLONG From Lue From Newcastle and TONGBONG RD VALLEY WAY 2018 sponsors and supporters via Lue the Hunter via Bylong The Community Charity Shop Kandos; Mid-Western Regional To Panorama Court Council; Price’s Service Centre; Bowdens Silver; First National and Pinnacle ONGBONG RD T Swamp Road ONGBONG ST LUE ROAD T Real Estate Kandos Rylstone; Rylstone Kandos Business DABEE ST MILL ST & Tourism; Convent & Chapel Wool Shop; Shipman’s Real BYLONG Railway Estate; Rylstone Olive Press; Kandos IGA; Kandos–Rylstone VALLEY Station WAY CHLAN ST Showground CALDERWOOD RD MUDGEE ST MCLA Pharmacy; The Lollypop Shop; Reliance Bank; Lana’s From Mudgee via the See Pinnacle Swamp map CUDGEGONG ST Peppermint Grove Nursery Kandos; Mudgee Nursery; COXS Lara CREEK Lithgow Nursery; The Globe Hotel; Franks’ Breakaway; Naked LOUEE ST ROAD COX ST Ache n Lady Wines; De Beaurepaire Wines; Shady Lady Hats; Kandos Back Acres Hotel; Cuts Colours n’ Curls … and the intrepid gardeners who Rylstone PIPER ST have generously opened their gardens in a very dry season … and Pat’s Place Cudgegong Pat’s CUDGEGONG NARRANGO River the many volunteers who have helped to stage the event, including ROAD Place ROAD LOUEE ST FITZ Rylstone and Ilford–Running Stream branches of CWA. 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NARRANGO RD CUDGEGONG RD From Lithgow via the From BYLONG Castlereagh Highway Capertee Castlereagh VALLEY WAY Highway via Pinnacle Swamp map District map Clandulla Kandos town map OPEN GARDENS: The garden surrounding the house is an ornate cottage garden with whimsical elements, and will reward careful scrutiny. Follow paths, KANDOS wander, pause, smell and touch. Note the rich, fertile vegetable garden, Nirvana – place of happiness RUNNING STREAM the patio protecting rare plants, the various clematis climbing over structures. You will eventually come across Kaye’s 50 or so chooks, Julie & Barry Denton, 1588 Bylong Valley Way, Kandos Keewaydin – mainly Isa Browns and White Leghorns, and if you walk out into the Nirvana is on the outskirts of Kandos township, south-west of the a panoramic parkland paddock you will see the breeding pen. Can you identify the amazing avenue of poplars on Bylong Valley Way number of fruit trees including passionfruit, kiwi fruit, pomegranate, Rae & Guy Sim, 6121 Castlereagh Highway, Running Stream Julie and Barry began to establish their garden five years ago. As persimmon, Cox’s pippin apple, lime and blood orange as well as you walk down the drive you will see a young arboretum on either Travelling north-west towards Ilford on the Castlereagh Highway (from numerous citrus, stone and seed fruit? Capertee), Keewaydin’s driveway is 1.5km past the Foxwood Farm café side, which includes eucalypts, peppercorns, pines, deciduous and at Running Stream, on your left. Refreshments: Tea, coffee and Kaye’s ginger biscuits available ornamental fruit trees. Walk across the spillway and rock bed (which upon request was constructed to change a bog into a creek) and stroll around this Rae and Guy Sim built their house and began planting this sweeping Demonstrations: Dry floral arrangement by Geraldene Nutting large landscaped garden. You will discover many areas: a pine garden, nine-acre garden 12 years ago. Guy is the structural builder and Saturday 1.30pm cottage garden, acid-lovers, natives, fernery, courtyard, vegetable designer and you will see his handiwork in water courses, rock culverts, garden (with small worm farms, calcium collector and bird breakfast climbing frames, stonework, terraces and well-placed, eye-catching Market stalls: Honey Haven Garden Goods table), orchard and fruit garden. Though close to Kandos they have no sculptural pieces. Rae is the green-fingered artist, designing, planting St Veda – a garden in transition town services and had to ensure a good water supply. After putting in and nurturing a spectacular range of trees (deciduous, fruiting and two 22,000-litre tanks, they installed smaller tanks to collect water native) and bushes; as well as perennials, bulbs, succulents and annuals Margaret and Bruce Mayo, 899 Tara Loop Road, Ilford from every rooftop on the property. Two dams hold crayfish and 100 in pots, beds and paddocks. Their garden continues to evolve, relying Tara Loop Road, as the name suggests, has two entrances. Take the first silver perch. on spring water pumped up to two 22,500-litre tanks sitting near the entrance if coming from Sofala; the second entrance if coming from highway. Meaning the spirit of the north-west wind, ‘Keewaydin’ has its Ilford. Look for the flags. Markets stalls: Plants, shells and stones by Julie Denton; sculptural ceramics by Debbie Stone origin in the story of Hiawatha. The property was a bush block purchased in the late 1980s as a Refreshments: Devonshire teas and light lunches by Ilford–Running weekend retreat from the city. In 1994 the completion of a weekend Refreshments and fun: Smoothie bike with Dave Standfield Stream CWA Saturday & Sunday 10am–4pm cottage led to the establishment of a garden. Garden beds were created The Convent – a spiritual garden Demonstrations: Fresh floral arrangement by Geraldene Nutting by digging the compacted, rocky soil by hand with a mattock and a Saturday 11am pinch bar. The beds were edged by rock collected from the property. The Margot Palk, 78 Fleming Street, Kandos Public toilets at Ilford information bay cooler climate enabled experimentation with numerous plants so that Enter via the carpark off Dabee Road or Dangar Street, in the ‘cottage’ garden predominately deciduous trees and shrubs are next to the Catholic church. accompanied by dahlias, irises, a variety of herbaceous perennials and St Dominic’s Convent was built in 1930 in grand Spanish Mission style ILFORD annuals, bulbs and 200 roses. Paths wind between the garden beds, as a purpose-built convent for the Good Samaritan nuns who taught enabling internal vistas and views out to the valley. Wander through Redbank – at the school at the rear of the property. Recently in private hands, the the small native garden beside a fire pit (recently constructed). In the garden is going through a renaissance. The once-spectacular garden, a meandering rural garden adjacent paddocks, trees (still immature) have been planted and more which celebrated roses, was demolished in the 70s and 80s and the Kaye Moore, 1004 Tara Loop Road, Ilford garden beds are taking shape. Visit also the vegetable and fruit garden grounds were bare and low maintenance at the time of purchase. Over up past the sheds. Water is pumped from the dam to garden beds. Tara Loop Road, as the name suggests, has two entrances. Take the first the past four years, a Convent garden in keeping with the heritage Margaret and Bruce retired in 2010 and ‘St Veda Cottage’, their owner- entrance if coming from Sofala; the second entrance if coming from of the building has been established. Over a hundred heritage roses, built weekend home, has now been replaced by the galvanised-iron- Ilford. Look for the flags. including climbers and ramblers, have been planted, along with many clad house (‘Chateau Mayeau’) built almost entirely by Margaret and Set high on a hill above the Ilford countryside, ‘Redbank’ is protected heirloom cottage plants. Expect to see flowering banks of salvias and Bruce. Post-retirement arrival of a 50-horsepower tractor has enabled sages mixed in with the roses. Raised vegetable beds have been added by an avenue of pine trees and has spectacular views to Coomber more ambitious landscaping to be started around the new home. Mountain and beyond. Kaye and her husband Barrie (recently and fruit and olive trees, and many herbs can be spotted around the Special guest speaker Gay Stanton: Saturday 3pm deceased) settled here in 1964, built their house and established gardens of over half an acre. The paddock next door is an extension of ‘Landscaping and maintaining a country garden’ a pastoral property that currently runs 1800 sheep and 30 cattle. the original garden and is in the early stages of becoming ...... an edible garden. There’s a lot to discover as you walk around the Lara – a rock garden grounds including a rose-covered grotto in the front of the property. RYLSTONE There are plenty of areas to sit and contemplate amongst the statuary. with a Dutch flavour The Chapel will be open. Pat’s Place – set in stone Johanna & Geoff Marr, 260 Pinnacle Swamp Road, Rylstone Refreshments: Devonshire teas and light lunches served by Rylstone Pat Amos, 83 Mudgee Street, Rylstone Continue along Tongbong Road past Panorama Court – CWA Saturday & Sunday 10am–3pm This garden is of interest for its structural features as much as its approx. 10 minutes drive north-west of Rylstone township Market stalls: Lizzy’s Jams; Elizabeth McKay wearable art; plantings. Note as you enter, the 30cm thick stone wall on 10cm Much of Johanna’s garden is literally growing on rock, so her CWA raffle and visitor information footings, which Pat built herself. The back stone section of the house achievements are all the more spectacular. She has used a range of Talks by Christine Corner from Crave Natural: was built in the 1890s and of even greater historical interest is the clever techniques including built-up beds and river stone; garden • Fermented foods for the gut and garden, beehive well (learn more from the sign). Wander along granite paths ornaments, pots and hanging baskets; grasses and succulents. Climbing Sunday 10.30am and 3.30pm which take you to the boundaries of the garden, over a bridge, beside a roses and wisteria adorn the verandahs. Native plants attract assorted • Developing a micro business from your love of gardening, fishpond, beneath arches and under trees (pin oaks, Manchurian pears wildlife. Her garden includes introduced species such as lipstick Sunday 12.30pm and Chinese elm). Honeysuckle, star jasmine, wisteria and grape vines, maple, tortured willow, Manchurian pear and crabapple. There is an soften roofs and walls. Pieces of whimsy hide among the plants. Pat Exhibition: knitted lace by Margot Palk and Gemma Braiding assortment of fruit trees and flowering bushes as well as a vegetable has chosen hardy plants and waters her garden using well water and garden. Note the solar-powered fountain and bee hives. Hazelgrove – recycled household water. Market stalls: Irises and sedum plants, Burmese craft a haven for wildlife and people Market stalls: Dennis Grimshaw heritage and heirloom seeds; mosaics; Refreshments: Tea, coffee, slices, cakes and Dutch treats Rylstone Olive Press olive oils and tastings; plants. Stall and short demonstrations: Pat Tilling mosaics Bonnie & Peter Farrell, 1857 Bylong Valley Way, Kandos Light refreshments available. Opposite Henbury golf course, just north of Kandos Pool Special guest speaker Gay Stanton: Sunday 11am ‘Landscaping and maintaining a country garden’ Starting with an almost bare landscape, Peter and Bonnie took into Ache n Back Acres – account drainage, soil, heat and frost in selecting and planting their picture perfect Coomber Homestead and two-acre garden. This has resulted in a flourishing mix of native, exotic, Karen & Shane Price, 25 Panorama Court, Rylstone Guest House – two classic hardy and edible plants. They have created a waterwise environment through rainwater collection, extensive mulching and drip irrigation; Just north of the bridge over the in Rylstone, take Australian country gardens Tongbong Road and head up the hill and they source waste materials to fertilise their garden and create 5 minutes south-west of Rylstone on the Cudgegong Road, inspired garden art. Wander through the native garden at the front Shane and Karen began this house and garden 12 years ago on 23 acres between Rylstone and the Castlereagh Highway of uncleared land on the outskirts of Rylstone. Their colourful garden and an extensive parkland at the rear, including an elf garden, unusual Steve & Tracey Evans, 487 Cudgegong Road, Rylstone paths, unique garden art and numerous ponds. Feel free to amble into provides a lovely softening frame for the house. A water garden of It’s no surprise the Homestead garden won The Morning Herald the sheep and chook paddock where you can peep into the propagation large pots on a granite base dominates the circular driveway. Several Garden Prize in 1967. Sweeping lawns dotted with well-established room and hot house. Don’t forget to visit the extensive vegetable wisterias hang over trellises, and are complemented by a number of trees, such as golden elm and desert ash, are bordered with lush garden garden plots, the orchard and frost-sensitive room on the southern weeping bushes and an avenue of pink and white standard iceberg beds (planted five years ago) to provide a gentle, shady retreat. An side of the house. And when you are tired, rest on one of the many roses. Closer to the house are garden beds constructed with large edge of Elina roses – a subtle cream – frames the house. This garden is garden seats. boulders and holding annual and perennial plantings. Garden art, water features and rare and unusual plants abound. Water for the being renewed in a grand style. One can imagine a table set with white Demonstrations: Kokedama 11am and making garden art from linen and Royal Albert ‘country roses’. Across the paddock and past succulents 2pm Saturday and Sunday garden is collected in a large garden tank at the back of the property and gravity-fed to the gardens. They also use recycled water from a bio the shearers’ quarters, the Guest House garden sits beautifully in the Market stalls: Garden art and plants; Kandos Museum tea towels septic system. farming landscape, providing 360° views of hills and fertile paddocks. Refreshments: Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and water from the Market stalls: Dragonridge Pottery by Sue Foldhazy; Many of trees here were planted by Tim and Helen Evans in the 1960s: Kandos Museum Ute Café Mudgee Iris Farm irises and water plants, Jackie Kain pin oaks, lindens, English elms, liquidambars and plane trees. Refreshments: Hot food and drinks from the Rylstone & Kandos Refreshments: Morning and afternoon teas by Rylstone Public School; Volunteer Rescue Association Market stalls: Joan Schultz garden art; Grew Some Plants by Charlie and Lisa Page