Garden lovers enjoyed a stunning weekend of weather for this weekend’s ‘prelude’ to the Festival of Country Garden’s! The main festival will be held in a couple of weeks – Thursday 31 October to Sunday 3 November, 2013

There are  21 unique gardens open for the Festival with locations throughout the scenic, inland south west of Western Australia including Balingup, Bridgetown, Donnybrook, Manjimup, Nannup and Pemberton. In addition to gardens opening, there will be guided morning walks and evening sundowners with a garden theme over the Festival days, so that visitors and local people can enjoy a garden-inspired holiday.

For full program details go to the Festival website.

A stunning Spider Orchid

This stunning Spider Orchid, is one of the many orchids found in Jarrah/Marri forests in the Festival area of the inland South West. (photo courtesy of Festival website)