Join Jenny Deans for a presentation and guided garden tour exploring the design journey behind a unique and steep peri-urban Habitat garden.

Learn how the garden was designed to provide year-round habitat and food for native wildlife, improve bushfire resilience, showcase unusual native plants, minimise maintenance, and work with natural processes rather than against them.
We'll discuss the overall vision, design process, and the many competing priorities that shaped the final result. Along the way, we'll share practical examples of what succeeded, what we'd do differently, and why a "don't let perfection be the enemy of good" mindset helped progress and improve the garden.

This tour will be particularly useful for Adelaide Hills residents with larger urban gardens or acreage properties, especially those managing challenging sites with steep slopes and difficult terrain.

This session will begin at Hills Environment Centre for a short presentation. Then we will car pool to the site at Skye <10 minutes away.

Please note that this site requires walking up stairs and navigating steep slopes and is unfortunately not suited for those with mobility needs.

The presentation and garden tour will offer honest insights, practical lessons, and inspiration for creating your own habitat garden.

Date: Saturday 24th October 2026
Time: 11.00am - 1.30pm
Location: Hills Environment Centre, 4 Crescent Drive Norton Summit
Cost: Sliding scale fees available, ranging from $10 - 25 per person (afternoon tea included.)

Please note that this site requires walking up stairs and navigating steep slopes and is unfortunately not suited for those with mobility needs.

Above photos: Left image - July 2025. Right image - July 2026.

For further enquiries please contact:

Hills Environment Centre

info@hecinc.org.au

0405 527 610

Hills Environment Centre is proudly supported by Hills & Fleurieu Landscape SA Board and funded by Green Adelaide

We acknowledge and respect the traditional custodians of the land and waters, the Peramangk and Kaurna peoples, upon whose land we live, work, travel and visit at the Hills Environment Centre.

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