Garden open through
Australia's Open Garden Scheme
on
29th/30th August
and 31st October/1st November

Entrance $6.00 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 peninsula, 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 June

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

With the cooler weather, the koookaburras are always on time for feeding time!


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

and Horace, the peacock, who was  saved from the National Park and has happily settled down at Waterfall Cottage along with all the other wildlife will try to charm anyone or thing that comes near

His annual moult in February left feathers everywhere
but they are growing back quickly
and he will be as magnificent as ever

Number of visitors since 1st April 2003