Open Gardens Australia

New South Wales & ACT Special Events

As well as our weekly program of wonderful open gardens, which can be found here, Open Gardens Australia also has an exciting range of Special Events throughout the year.

Some of these events require pre-booking and as numbers are strictly limited we urge you to book well ahead of time to avoid disappointment.

Upcoming ACT & NSW Special Events

Neil Hobbs and the World Landscape Art Exposition
National Museum of Australia, Canberra

Thursday 20 June 2013, 5.30pm - 7.30pm

Booking details:
Bookings are essential for this event as places are very limited.

Tickets $25.00 includes talk & post event canapes & drinks

You can book online via our secure site here or phone 0458 700 079 during business hours.

Join us for a fascinating and inspirational talk by internationally renowned and highly awarded, Canberra based landscape architect Neil Hobbs on the World Landscape Art Exposition in China.

China is staging a huge exposition between May and October this year. The site covers an area 3 kilometres x 1 kilometre in the new Jinzhou City on the edge of the Bohai Sea.

Only 20 leading landscape architects from around the world were invited to design gardens for the exposition and Neil's landscape practice Harris - Hobbs has created the only Australian garden - The Garden of the Southern Cross.

Neil will talk about the huge site and inspiring scheme, the individual gardens, his own creation, and the challenges of working in China, all fully illustrated with photographs.

See here for the plan of the Australian garden at Jinzhou.