Garden open through
Australia's Open Garden Scheme
on
27th/28th February & 24th/25th April 2010

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 Bromeliad for
What's Flowering
in February

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

The Kookaburras are back - does anyone know where they
go all  December and January - they disappaear every year and come February - they're back looking for their food!


...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

Number of visitors since 1st April 2003