You are invited to stroll down the driveway to Gini Hole's garden in Red Hill on October 15-16 for Open Gardens Canberra. Beside waist-high beds filled with white irises, white ixias, white, blue and pink forget-me-nots there is a tall "fire" sculpture by Heather B. Swann where the flames move when a wheel is turned. Nearby there will be a stall run by Marymead. Enter the garden gate to be greeted by white Ecclesfield camellias and azaleas, a slim water tank, a pair of pear trees in white blossom and a well pruned "volunteer" holly bush.
There is a large waterlily pond where crimson rosellas bathe, an edging of bee-attracting aluminium plants from Gini's aunt's garden in Melbourne and white viburnum horizontalis. Across the lawn is a large raised vegetable bed filled with mixed varieties of kale, sorrel, broad beans, pak choy with yellow flowers going to seed, snow peas, massed borage which brings the bees. As the winter crops finish, an array of potted Italian and curly parsley sits with bok choy, oak leaf lettuce, gold ribbed chard and a trough of edibles.
