Which of these two tours is your tour?

The Head Gardener's Tour

The Head Gardener’s tour is a two hour journey around Inverawe, with the Head Gardener.  If you want to create your own piece of paradise, or find out how we created ours, this is for you.  You will get the inside stories as you tour this unique 22 acre garden with one of its creators.  Find out what worked and why, and what values drive the development of this extensive garden.  Learn how acres of intractable weeds became a stunning landscaped garden.

• Enjoy unlimited access to the Head Gardener for two hours
• Take home a CD with high res images of the garden as a souvenir of your visit
• Have tea on the terrace as you listen to the chatter of some of our 90 bird species
• Pot up a plant and take it home for your garden or add it to the Inverawe collection

You will find out the secrets of:

• Plant selection
• Low maintenance, sustainable gardening
• Simple, no fuss landscape design
• Working with the environment, wherever your garden happens to be. 

Botanists and Explorers’ Experience Tour

Take two hours at Inverawe to connect with an important and neglected part of Australian history.  The French explorers were here, over 200 years ago, and so too were the people who laid the foundations of Australian scientific botany – the Frenchman Labillardiere and the Scot Robert Brown.  D’Entrecasteaux’s 1792 expedition was the first to map North West Bay, which Inverawe overlooks.   Baudin’s French expedition of 1803 anchored just off the point. 

• See some of the 1000 species of Australian plants that Robert Brown and Labillardiere named.
• See the colours and textures, and scent the fragrances that so excited those first European visitors. 
• Take home a CD of high res images as a souvenir of your visit.
• Pot up one of the plants named by those early botanists, to take home or add to the Inverawe collection.
• Have tea on the terrace as you listen to the chatter of some of our 90 bird species, and imagine a French ship coming down the Bay. 

For either tour, bookings are essential – for further information phone 03 6267 2020 or email gardens@inverawe.com.au    

Two hours,guided tour, tea and light refreshments included. $60 adults, $30 children.