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| Open Gardens - CHINOISERIE, Mittagong | |
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| CHINOISERIE This garden features a spring time display of over 100 varities of peonies - Chinese, Japanese, European and American Tree Peonies. (1.25 acres.) Chinoiserie is a very colourful plant collectors garden. It features many rare and unusual plants. The site had nothing on it when the garden was commenced, just a sloping block leading to a creek at the bottom end of the property. The house was completed in March 1999. It is a Storybook cottage which includes a small B & B which has become very popular with guests from Sydney and overseas. Large collection of peonies. We have a large peony collection, many tree peonies - mudan -and some herbaceous ones. The Chinese and Japanese tree peonies flower in September and the European and American peonies in October. The herbaceous peonies flower in November. Potager Garden. There is also a potager garden hedged with hidcote lavenders and within the hedging vegetables (cabbages, lettuce, carrots, tomatoes, artichokes) and herbs grow together. Nearby are two espaliered apple trees. Alpine Garden. An alpine garden has been developed and plants here include lewisas, pasque flower and some small alpine plants. Herbaceous Borders. There are three large herbaceous borders with lots of strong colours combining textures and contrasting leaf shapes and here the visitor will find penstemons, salvias, centauras, euphorbias, alstromerias, verbascums, cannas, verbenas and many other beautiful plants. Due to the large borders, large or gigantic perennials are also in place, for example melianthus, romenya, tree dahlias, stipa giantea and foxtail lillies. Water Garden There is an extensive water feature with two ponds and a stream between. This attracts a lot of wildlife from around the Highlands. The planting on the side of the stream uses plants that like the moist conditions such as astibles and hostas. New Woodland Garden. There has been a large number of trees planted on the property and beyond the bridge over the stream a woodland garden is being developed. In the future, the canopy of the trees will provide suitable plantings of rhododendrons, azalias and bluebells. This is a plant collectors' garden which will bring much pleasure to all those who visit and it is a very good example of seven years of passionate hard work from a bare block.
Chinese and Japanese tree peonies will be in flower mid September to mid October. European and American tree peonies will be in flower mid October to early November. Herbaceous peonies flower from early to late November. The garden in general is at its peak late October/early November, and with colourful displays in autumn.
Open Tulip Time Sep 25 daily to November 28. (Includes Wine Arts and Roses Nov 1 to 16).
Talk and Tour: Tues 30 Sep 11.00am - "Fabulous Tree Peonies - How to grow and care for them".
Also open during autumn 2009 (TBA).
Opening time: 10.00am to 4.30pm. Other times by appointment only.
Entry fee is $5 per person. There is an exhibition of peonies in art during Tulip Time and Spring garden openings. Peonies and rare plants for sale.
Car parking is available in Webb Street. Coaches should drop off then move further down the street. |
| For more information please contact the owners, Chris and Dominic. CHINOISERIE 23 Webb Street, Mittagong NSW 2575 Phone: (02) 4872 3003 Fax: (02) 4872 1808 email: cstyles@ozemail.com.au |  |
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| How to get there: From the Visitors Information Centre, Main Street, Mittagong, turn into Fitzroy Street (alongside the Grand Country Lodge). Take the next left over the railway bridge and go straight ahead past Frensham and Sturt Gallery. Follow Range Road up the hill and take the first street on the left. Chinoiserie is half way down the hill on the right hand side. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
