Open Garden – Amber’s Garden In Autumn

Autumn in Amber’s Garden is a whole different experience to when it opened in spring 2023.
Set on a gently sloping north-facing block, this richly varied garden is a constant delight, featuring a sequence of courtyards, lawns and garden ‘rooms’ that beautifully showcase a very wide range of thriving exotic and native plants, many of which are unusual to find in Canberra.
Extended and modified over the past 10 years from the 1980s original, this large informal garden is notable for its big collection of salvias together with roses, camellias, perennials, bulbs, maples, orchids and many unusual Australian native plants. Autumn is the time for camellias, salvias, late season perennials, deciduous colour and Australian natives like correas and banksias.
Photo: Anne Mackenzie