Lanyon

Lanyon Garden Festival

Saturday 15 and Sunday 16 March
10.00am – 4.00pm

A weekend packed with interest for garden enthusiasts and those who just love being in a beautiful heritage garden. Learn how to keep your garden looking good despite the drought with demonstrations, expert advice, walks and talks. Special guests Trisha Dixon (Garden writer & Photographer) and Fiona Ogilvie (Gardening writer for The Land) will give illustrated lectures over the weekend.

Enjoy local food, stalls and fresh garden produce, with craft and activities especially for children.

Includes entry to the homestead with guided tours throughout the day. In association with Celebrate Canberra.

Cost: $5 adult, $3 concession, $10 family, includes entry for both days
Bookings: Not necessary
Stall Holders: We are seeking stallholders now!
Enquiries: Lanyon 6235 5677

Lecture Times

Trisha Dixon (Garden writer and Photographer)

Under the Spell of the Ages: Pastoral Landscapes Through the Eyes of Writers and Artists
11.00am and 2.00pm Saturday 15th March.

Fiona Ogilvie (Gardening writer for The Land)
Making A Country Garden
11.00am and 2.00pm Sunday 16th March.

Bookings essential 62355677 for all lectures

Making A Country Garden

Fiona Ogilvie, Gardening Writer for The Land, will discuss the challenges and joys of creating her own garden on a cattle property outside Bathurst, NSW. Fiona will reflect on the influences of local and overseas gardens and discuss her particular area of interest, Australian homestead gardens.

Fiona Ogilvie

Fiona is Gardening Writer for The Land newspaper, to which she has been contributing a weekly gardening column and photograph for over twelve years. Her recently-released first book, A Country Garden, (Rosenbergs, 2007), is the story of the garden she and her husband Bill have been making over the last twenty years on their cattle property near Bathurst.

Fiona has loved gardening for much of her life. She and Bill have made three gardens, their first in Sydney and the second on their property at Rockley where they lived from 1979 until 1988. Their present garden is open regularly for Australia’s Open Garden Scheme, and for Glanmire Bush Fire Brigade and their local church.

Before her marriage Fiona lived in Sydney where she was Information Officer for The Smith Family. Apart from her family, gardening and writing Fiona’s other great interest is early Australian history, in which she holds an Honours degree from the University of New England.

Trisha Dixon

Trisha will discuss her recent book Under the Spell of the Ages,

Trisha Dixon has trouble convincing people she actually works!!!! Her friends believe she has the perfect lifestyle, travelling near and far with cameras in tow, photographing, researching and writing about fascinating places and people with special interest on connections between the places that have inspired writers, artists and musicians.

She lives in an historic homestead at the foothills of the Snowy Mountains that was once home to photographer Charles Kerry and where a number of wonderful paintings were done over a century ago by Percy F.S. Spence. Trisha has spent years researching and documenting the gardens, plans and places linked with Australia's leading landscape designer, Edna Walling. She is on the Board of the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and is presently photographing a little known area of Italy for a book being written by Principessa Phillipa Torlonia...a dream project!

Trisha will discuss her recent book published by the National Library of Australia 'Under the Spell of the Ages' which includes gardens, writers, poets and artists in the area: Micalago Station, Lambrigg, Woden Homestead, Gidleigh, Pejar Park, Brindabella Station, Coolringdon, Bolaro Station and her own Bobundara.