Garden open through
Australia's Open Garden Scheme
on
4th/5th September
& 23rd/24th October 2010

10am - 4.30pm

Entrance $7.00 per person. Children free.

Tea and coffee with homemade cakes available.

or at other times by appointment

Waterfall Cottage gardens, situated on 3 hectares of rainforest on Sydney's Northern Beaches, are an integration of exotics into the bushland. Paths, steps and timber bridges provide access over the
gullies and garden sculptures, ornamental ponds, aviaries and
a gazebo add interest to the gardens. Giant eastern water dragons around the ponds add an unreal touch to the scene and sometimes a wallaby or lyrebirds can be spotted.

Finished in April 2005 - a living sculpture inspired by the Mud Maiden
in The Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornwall, England, sculptor, Belinda Villani, created "Lily" with a steel frame filled with clay and covered in
moss with Muehlenbeckia for hair. Her head is carved from sandstone - doesn't she look wonderful!

Click on the Camellia for
What's Flowering
in September

Site updated monthly
For further information email: Jeanne@Villani.com

The Lyre Bird has been around a lot
mimicing all the other birds

and now he has a competitor - the Spangled Drongo (below) is back also mimicing all the
other birds - hard to tell which is which

This week I saw the first brown pigeons
arrive and one butcher bird has been
hanging around - when he is there the Firetail finches make themselves very scarce!

Number of visitors since 1st April 2003