A garden fair

We went to a garden fair today, it was a glorious day, one of those out of the box beautiful Spring days, which we have not seen many of yet this year. The garden fair was to raise money for the local nursing home, the most amazing gardens, flowers that I've never even seen before, beautiful meandering paths. I could only imagine the fun that Lucky would have to explore this place! ha. If only. There was a craft market in the horse stable area, an art show in one of the big sheds, lovely food stalls to eat lunch at in one of the courtyards, devonshire tea out on the front porch. Wonderful!

I didn't even know this house existed only 10 minutes from where I live, but out of town. Incredible. I actually thought they had a lake, but was told that was the dam, it was so big. So here are some of the photos I took today, hot off the press.


Firstly the house, it wasn't open to the public though, I would have loved to have seen inside.

What is this flower? It had me fascinated. There were a few different ones like this dotted around the property, all different colours.

Okay, I'm in love, I have no idea what this is, I am garden challenged! But isn't it glorious?

And just when I see that one, I walk a bit further and see this amazing colour too. I'm feeling a need to get these for the garden, along the driveway, it would be beautiful. What are they? Someone help me out.

Oh and there was an area in the garden for fairies, lots of little girls dressed up having a great time, face painting, reading stories. I loved that I captured this, see ... there really are fairies in the bottom of the garden.

What a great way to soften the look of an old water tank. There were LOTS of water tanks around the property, you'd need it to tend to all the plants.

Such a cute weather vain. I want one.

Ahh, and fuschias, they are really so beautiful and elegant. I now have a need for hanging baskets with fuschias in them.

I also found a need for one of these cheery daisy flowers that one of the stall holders had displayed. I bought one of these and it's now cheerily staked and sitting in my garden.

How is this for the rolls royce of bird houses. Cute hey?

Beautiful trees with leaves in every colour, and it's not even autumn!

Did I mention there was entertainment? Some music being made.

Yeah okay, I'm a groupie! ha.

What a magical day it was today, loved it. We need to do things like this more often. Time for bed, it's been a long, exhausting but totally wonderful day.