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Inverawe is a garden landscaped along traditional landscaping
lines. As one visitor said "I
like the way the garden merges into the wider landscape".
That's landscape design. It's natural then that we have
selected Australian native plants for the garden - 7000 of them,
enhanced by natural regrowth in selected areas. Two thirds of
those 7000 plants are Tasmanians.
Other visitors have noticed the way that the landscaping takes
advantage of the long view down North West Bay, and across to the
mountains. One visitor said "You
could sit here forever..."
Visitors
notice, too, the changes in mood and theme as they move around the
garden. "The garden is full of
all sorts of surprises", one said.
You'll just have to
come and see for yourself!
Inverawe is a sustainable garden. Native plants are water wise,
low maintenance and require little in the way of fertilisers or other
chemicals. There's nothing dull about natives, either.
There
are plants in bloom twelve months of the year. You'll scent the
faint aroma of the essential oils that the sun teases from the
leaves of many species and the distinctive, pleasantly understated
perfume of the blooms.
"When is the best time to
visit?"
people ask."Anytime at
all", we tell them. A native garden just doesn't have an
off season.
Inverawe is here when you're
ready, waiting to inspire.
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Silver
Wattle, late winter
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Five year old Blue Gums in the grasslands
were swapping their blue juvenile leaves for bright green adult
foliage.
Nectar from Blue Gum blossoms is favorite food for the Swift Parrot,
endangered by loss of habitat. Two years later these trees are
twice as tall
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The Climate, and other technical
stuff
Summer
maximum temperatures rarely exceed thirty degrees Celsius and winter
overnight minimums are rarely less than minus two degrees. In
2008 we
received 568 mm (23 inches) of rain. Light frosts are common in
the
cooler months and every couple of years we receive a light dusting of
snow, which soon melts. Inverawe is much less windy than
other parts
of the island but the prevailing westerlies coupled with low humidity
ensure that Inverawe is a dry temperate garden.
Soil types
vary. Much of the property is sandy, doleritic clay,
occasionally overlaid with patches of grey sand. The lookout at
Rabbit
Hill is degraded basalt and the grasslands are riverine pasture.
Soil
pH is fairly consistent at around 6 to 6.5.
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