A COMPACT suburban garden in Frankston grown over the last four years will open for the final time this weekend.
Heartland, keen horticulturalist Jac Semmler’s garden, will open on 3 December and 4 December. It features a perennial garden, a rain-fed verge garden, a walled garden with pizza oven, an outdoor bath and potting shed, a vegie patch, cut flowers, chickens, and a small orchard.
Semmler says that the garden reflects her “broad encompassing love of all different kinds of plants, as you will see from Australian wildflowers through to woodland specimens.”
“The plants I grow also catalogue beautiful relationships in the plant community, with plants swapped and gifted from other gardens and plant missions far and wide with friends,” she said. “This is my imperfect, wonderfully wild around the edges personal garden, named Heartland because my garden is where my heart lies. I am very much testing and trialling different ideas, some with more success than others when it comes to bringing plants together. There is fun and play in this dynamic – it is not a static garden.”
Semmler has also released a book – Super Bloom: A Field Guide to Flowers for Every Gardener.
Heartland opens from 10am on 3 and 4 December, 9 Francis Street in Frankston.
Entry is $10 for adults and free for under-18s.