Bryan and Lynda Power will this weekend open their garden Casador for the first time. 52950 Picture: Nigel Clements
By Casey Neill
GREEN thumbs and garden admirers can explore a Kallista treasure for the first time, and support cancer research.
Lynda and Bryan Power will open Casador, at 56 Ridge Road, on 11 and 12 September to raise money for the Monash Institute of Medial Research’s Centre for Cancer Research.
Mr Power is the institute’s director and head of the Centre for Cancer Research.
The open garden event and a fund-raising raffle will help promote “the wonderful work being done at the institute”, Ms Power said.
“Bryan’s laboratory staff are a great group of dedicated young scientists and they will be volunteering on the day.”
“It will be really worthwhile for the public to be able to meet the people behind the science – to put a real face to scientific research.”
The secluded woodland garden features sweeping, informal beds enclosed by hedges.
An avenue of cherries under planted with azaleas lines the driveway.
Magnolias, camellias and early spring bulbs provide colour.
Stax Didgeman will perform on Saturday and local ceramics artist Jenny Rowe’s sculptures will feature throughout the garden.
David Hoskin has worked on Casador for almost 20 years and will open his own garden alongside it.
Telopea Gardens is located at 80 Beaconsfield Road, Emerald, and was mostly made up of pine trees and a small patch of 30 protea bushes when it was purchased in 1978. Wide paths and lawns link deep sweeping beds filled with trees, shrubs and spring blossoms and bulbs that attract many bird species. The Drewitt family will also open their garden, from 10am to 4pm on Saturday 11 September and from Wednesday 22 to Saturday 25 September.
Visitors to 8 Henderson Hill Road, Silvan, can check out rare, drought-hardy bulbs and plants in flower, an outdoor garden model railway and an indoor daffodil display.
Casador and Telopea are open 10am to 4.30pm Saturday 11 and Sunday 12 September. Entry is $6 for adults and free for under 18s.
