Garden open through
Australia's Open Garden Scheme
on
25th/26th October 2008
and
21st/22nd February & 18th/19th April 2009

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 September

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

The Spangled Drongo, shrieking his head off and imitating all the other birds has just arrived
back


also the Brown Pigeons with their
lovely soft cooing

At the end of last year, for no apparent
reason, another large stand of bamboo just
keeled over. The only reason I could guess
would be that it had been affected by the
drought. It happened early in the morning
on a very still day. Luckily it missed the bridge
but it is going to have to stay where it is
because it would be almost impossible to
cut it and get it out. With all the rain earlier in
the year and the warmth in autumn
it is now shooting out in all directions

...and Horace, this handsome creature was saved from the National Park and has happily settled down at Waterfall Cottage along with all
the other wildlife

Number of visitors since 1st April 2003