Open Gardens Albany 2025

Purchase your weekend pass to Open Gardens Albany 2025

A weekend pass gives you entry to every garden open on your chosen weekend

Gardens are open on 25th & 26th October and 1st & 2nd November. See below for open days/times for each garden.

Open Gardens Albany is a community event held bi-annually and is one of Albany Community Hospice’s main fundraising events. It is organised by volunteers who generously give up their time, including the coordinators, organising committee, the gardeners and their support people, plus volunteers at the gates and musicians.

• Weekend passes can only be purchased online. A pass can be purchased for either weekend and gives you entry to every garden open that weekend

• You don't have to purchase a weekend pass - entry to individual gardens is $5 by cash or EFTPOS at the gate

• Remember to bring cash for plant sales and refreshments at the gardens

• See garden locations on Google Maps here

1. KAOTIC ON KING - King River Drive, Lower King - 25/26 October and 1/2 November 10am to 4pm

A playful, waterwise garden brimming with natives and birdbaths that attract birdlife – designed to be enjoyed by kids and adults alike. Owner Vicki calls it “the garden you have when you know very little about gardening but love it anyway!” Inspired by Southern Plants for Your Garden and Sabrina Hahn’s Dirty Deeds, with years of experimenting and local help, it features a Stuart Munro Folly for quiet contemplation and plenty to make you smile - all while raising funds for Hospice.

• Devonshire teas in the Red Tails Café with Fat Scone scones. $10 per plate

• Sausage sizzle lunch $5.00

• Raffle at the gate

• EFTPOS and Cash facilities

2. VICKI’S GARDEN - King River Drive, Lower King - 25/26 October and 1/2 November 10am to 4pm

A garden grown from love and sharing over 20 years, with many plants gifted by family and friends. Enter through an “Aussie Bush” front, wander into a cottage-style section, then find a fire pit, gabion walls, kitchen garden, roses and more. Sheltered by citrus trees at the back, you can exit via the plant sale area. Enjoy your visit knowing it supports our local Hospice.

• Plant sales

• Raffle at the gate

• EFTPOS and Cash facilities

3. LOOP-THE-LOOP - Meadowlake Vista, Lower King - 25/26 October and 1/2 November 10am to 4pm

A young 1.5-acre permaculture garden overlooking the King River. Highlights include an enclosed orchard with chooks, citrus grove, olives, raised veg beds and wetlands formed by tank overflow. The design builds habitat for beneficial creatures, enriches soil with mulch and worm juice and recycles wastewater via a bio-filtration system.

• Music by 3 Fifths (Nov 1, 11am-1pm; Nov 2, 2pm-4pm)

• Raffle at the gate

• EFTPOS and Cash facilities

4. CLARE’S GARDEN - Goddard Way, McKail - 25/26 October and 1/2 November 10am to 4pm

A charming three-year-old cottage-style garden with classic structure and inviting warmth. The front features standard roses and lavender along a drive with a silver birch being the focal point. Through the gate a pergola draped in wisteria shades a claw-foot bath, surrounded by colourful beds and ferns under dappled light. A delightfully simple garden on a modest suburban block.

• Tea, Coffee and cake with GF available - $10 per plate

• Sculptures on display from Black Arrow Design

• Raffle at the gate

• EFTPOS and Cash facilities

5. SHERWOOD COTTAGE - Willyung Road, Willyung - 25/26 October 10am to 4pm

Garden Open ONLY on first weekend

Explore the gardens that surround the heritage cottage on 15.5 acres. Wander under grand elms and a century-old oak, past an espaliered orchard, beehives, a lake, duck pond and native beds alive with bird chatter. Willyung Creek flows through, and a waterwheel built by the owner’s powers lights at dusk.

• Pre order picnic hampers - email getgrazingco@gmail.com

• ‘The Cottage Edit Menu’ - High Tea inspired hot dishes, decadent cakes & a bespoke trolley brimming with sweet & savoury delights by Little Larder Co. Available 10 - 4pm daily.

Part of all food sales from Get Grazing Co and Little Larder Co will support Hospice

• Tea / Coffee and cake available all day. $10 per plate

• Live music by Zazzies Jazz Band, 12-2pm daily

• Raffle at the gate

• EFTPOS and Cash facilities

6. BIRCHWOOD GARDENS - Talandgra Downs, Albany Hwy, Narrikup - 1/2 November 10am to 4pm

Garden Open ONLY on second weekend

Five acres of predominantly English-style gardens, with a French garden, kitchen garden, orchard, rose arbours and many “rooms” to explore. Features around 280 roses, deciduous trees, perennials – plus some farm animals for fun.

• Tea, Coffee and cake available all day. $10 per plate

• Music by Swanharp Consort, November 1, 12-2pm

• Raffle at the gate

• EFTPOS and Cash facilities

7. FRENCHMAN BAY ROAD - Frenchman Bay Road, Albany - 2 November 10am to 4pm

Garden Open ONLY for one day on second weekend

A personal garden story — designed by Jacqui and maintained by her husband after her passing in 2019. Set on a former sand dune transformed with truckloads of soil and compost. Highlights include a silver birch grove, magnolia and camellias, sub-tropical plantings, framed views to the harbour, vegetable and herb beds.

Parking available at the top for less mobile visitors, general parking in paddocks. Just past Limeburners Distillery.

• Morning & afternoon tea by Hospice volunteers. $10 per plate

• Music by Simon Keane, 12 noon – 2pm

• Raffle at the gate

• EFTPOS and Cash facilities

• ACROD parking

Albany Community Hospice is an eight-bed private hospital located next to the Albany Health Campus in Albany and provides specialist palliative care in a home-like environment at any stage of a person’s palliative care journey. Care at Hospice is free. Hospice has become a leader in the provision of specialised palliative care, offering a place of peace, acceptance and safety where everyone is supported and cared for with dignity through their end-of-life choices.

Albany Community Hospice is the only community-run hospice in Western Australia and is committed to providing free palliative care as it has done since its inception in 1990. There is always an annual shortfall in funds to operate Hospice. The shortfall last financial year was over $800,000. Albany Community Hospice therefore relies on community fundraising and donations to meet the annual shortfall.

Through amazing fundraising efforts from all areas of our community, including donations, Hospice is able to continue to offer free palliative care. Albany Community Hospice is very grateful for the community support that comes together to make Open Gardens Albany a reality.

Thank you to all involved in this year’s event. Albany Community Hospice is extremely appreciative of your support and that of the many people who take the time to enjoy the wonderful gardens.