Open Gardens Festival - Girgarre & Surrounds

03/11/2025

02/11/2025

The 19th Annual Girgarre Moosic Muster: 7-11 January 2026.The Girgarre Moosic Muster is a five-day, interactive, community based festival organised and conducted by a band of loyal volunteers, both local and from many other regional and city areas. Held in January each year in the small village of G...

27/10/2025

2025 was certainly a soggy, yet satisfying, Open Gardens Festival.

Mother Nature unleashed her stormy, thundery, rainy best throughout much of the day, but did manage a few breaks during set up, The Banksia sculpture unveiling and pack up.

Thank you to all those that braved the elements and showed such sincere kindness and thoughts, as we continued on with the event. The positivity and good will was felt by everyone in attendance as we were all in it together.

The High Tea, which was relocated into Girgarre's Memorial Hall, was absolutely delightful. The room was fit for royalty, the service matched that level of expectation and the food was excessive in both quality and quantity.

There are so many people to thank for putting together an event of this scale. To every single one of you, our absolute heart felt gratitude for the hours, days and weeks of your time. Our Girgarre community is such a better place for having you in it!

Also, our financial sponsors ACM, Community Bank Rushworth & District and The Shire of Campaspe. We really appreciate the support that you have shown us for many years. Great success like ours, doesn't come alone, so thank you!

Here are a few pictures of our Gargarro Garden Party and High Tea.

Over and out for another year........
Cheers,

The Open Gardens Festival Committee 🌻

25/10/2025

For those that missed out on tickets to The Gargarro Garden Party and High Tea (from the messages we have received that is quite a lot of you)...........

We are pleased to announce that the following is available for FREE if you wish to wander down to Gargarro Botanic Gardens, tomorrow from 10-2pm!

🎼Live music
🎨Demonstrators (ceramic sculpting, floristry and artist)
🌭 BBQ by Girgarre Primary School
🍄Markets Stalls
🌿 Unveiling of our new Banksia Sculpture (1pm)

Hope to see you there (braving the elements with us)☂️

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21/10/2025

19/10/2025

Girgarre Open Gardens Festival presents: Gargarro Garden Party with High Tea.

19/10/2025

One week to go until our Gargarro Garden Party!

So much on offer from 10am-4pm:

🌺 High Tea along The Avenue
🌸 Artistic demonstrators under the Guardian Tree
🌼 Market stalls on the lawn
🌹 Gargarro Botanic Garden tours
🪻 Sound Walk tours
🌷 BBQ provided by local Primary School
🌻 Raffle with amazing prizes

Tickets are to be purchased prior to the event.
Online via link below or contact Gargarro Green Thumbs Nursery.

Girgarre Open Gardens Festival presents: Gargarro Garden Party with High Tea.

12/10/2025

Two weeks to go until our Gargarro Garden Party!
Lots has been happening behind the scenes, in readiness to welcome our guests.

Check out our amazing booklets, which are hot off the press🤩
Yet another talented volunteer, the forever humble Phil, has designed and created these. With daily events, histories, maps, pictures, it is jam packed with all that you will need on the day.

Thank you to ACM (Australian Consolidated Milk), located in Girgarre, for donating the associated paper and printing costs.

Whilst we are on the topic of thanks, we would like to also give a big shout out to Community Bank Rushworth & District and Shire of Campaspe, who have both contributed financially to our event.

These three organisations have supported us for many years and given so much to the Girgarre community. We are forever grateful.

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04/10/2025

At this year's Gargarro Garden Party, we are fortunate to have some remarkably talented artists and musicians gracing us with their presence.

Anne Timm - Renowned local artist, whose rustic creations literally have their own personalities. Not only will her cheeky chooks be back but some upcycled succulent lamp shades too!

Olivia Mitchell - New to the Open Gardens Festival but a hidden gem that we are glad we found living in Wyuna. Her paintings and drawings are beyond impressive - can you believe she is self-taught?

Fab Flowers - Di and Sue have been huge supporters of our event for many years. They are back due to popular demand and will be demonstrating the art of floral bouquets and arrangements.

Musicians - The extraordinary talents of Pete Gibson and Wallace Williams will blow your minds. Who knew a harp could be more than background in an orchestra? Or that scrap metal could be turned into treasured handmade instruments? The mind boggles at the genius abilities of these two gentlemen.

All these fabulous demonstrations will be under the Guardian Tree at Gargarro Botanic Gardens, on Sunday 26th October 2025.

In conjunction with the High Tea being held along The Avenue, it is going to be a day not to be missed! Tickets available online for $25 (plus minimal booking fee).

02/10/2025

With a little over three weeks until the Open Gardens Festival - Gargarro Garden Party, the excitement is certainly building amongst the town and the merry band of volunteers!

Tickets are selling very fast, so a friendly reminder to plan ahead, as the last two years were completely sold out. Also due to the new location, we have reduced the ticket allocation by 30% to ensure we deliver quality over quantity.

Girgarre Open Gardens Festival presents: Gargarro Garden Party with High Tea.

15/09/2025

Oops! We made an error... 🙃
In the 🌸Spring edition of our Campaspe Times newsletter under 'Upcoming events' on page 8, we listed an incorrect location for the Girgarre Open Gardens Festival Garden Party on Sunday, 26 October. The event will take place at Gargarro Botanic Garden in Girgarre, between 10am and 4pm. See you there!