Tour Highlights

This tour explores the gardens, agricultural landscapes and natural scenery of Tasmania during spring, when the roses and peonies are blooming and the landscape is lush and green.

• Visit Among Tall Trees, the private garden of Keryn and Mark Fountain, former Deputy Director of the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens. More ‘felt than designed’, this remarkable landscape reflects a deeply intuitive approach to gardening with nature.
• Renowned Australian garden writer, editor and author Jennifer Stackhouse welcomes guests into her private garden in Tasmania’s lush North-West, offering insights into gardening, landscape and place.
• At Weston Farm, wander through fields of peonies in bloom and enjoy a garden lunch showcasing the farm’s produce and award-winning olive oil.
• On Bruny Island, explore the island’s unique flora at the Jurassic Garden, home to more than 750 plant species, many tracing their origins to the ancient landscapes of Gondwana.
• Discover the work of colonial artist John Glover with a visit to his home, Patterdale, surrounded by landscapes that inspired many of his paintings, including Patterdale Farm (c 1839) and A view of the artist’s house and garden, in Mill’s Plains, Van Diemen’s Land (1835).
• Visit the Tasmanian Arboretum, and its collection of 5,650 living trees comprising about 1,500 individual species, with Director Phil Parsons.
• Enjoy a taste of Tasmania with a visit to The Agrarian Kitchen for a sumptuous ‘paddock-to-plate’ lunch and team seasonal food with fine Tasmanian wine at Josef Chromy.
• Spend time in Freycinet National Park and cruise along the peninsula to experience the sculpted coastline and sheltered waters of Wineglass Bay from a different perspective.
• Stay for two nights within the World Heritage-listed Cradle Mountain–Lake St Clair National Park, with opportunities to explore ancient alpine forests and some of Tasmania’s most distinctive mountain landscapes.

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