Martin Exhibition Garden - Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers

Martin Exhibition Garden - Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers A stunning private garden which is open to the public for 10 days per year in September as part of t

The Chronicle Exhibition Gardens are open to the public throughout the Toowoomba Carnival of Flowers week in September each year. The Martin Garden will be celebrating its 20th consecutive year as an Exhibition Garden in 2014. Admission to the Exhibition Gardens is by ticket only, with all proceeds donated to charity. The large front garden has been constructed around a circular driveway with a central, lawned bed where a magnolia grandiflora and a cercis Canadensis will eventually grow to dominance. Following an easy walking clockwise route around the house, visitors will pass a standardised bougainvillea to a grouping of trees which include two elms (golden and variegated), a variegated liriodendron, also known as the tulip tree, which bears small orange flowers, clivias and hellebores. A bed against the west side of the house features an arbutus, the Irish strawberry tree, a large autumn-flowering shrub surrounded by ferns. In the back garden a beautiful expanse of lawn, made lush by a bore-fed irrigation system, is surrounded by garden beds, shrubs and trees, birch, standard pink carpet roses and an acanonthera. In front of them is an ornamental bridge and gazebo, amid landscaped beds, and a weeping apricot, crab apples, tree ferns and a small formal pond with water plants. A sandstone pathway leads you through a cherry walk and past a dry rock wall. A garden swing house provides a relaxing spot from which to view water bird feature framed by a lattice walk thru lined by perennial beds. On the eastern side of the house beds feature the orange flowered tulip tree, a pear tree, sasanqua and japonica camellias, a crab apple, a jacaranda, a standardised wisteria, a ginkgo a cedar, an atlantica glauca and a gordonia. The St Matthews Ladies Guild provide Devonshire Tea's at the Garden throughout the Carnival of Flowers - a wonderful break before or after a walk around the garden. Plants, craft and home-baked goods are also for sale with all proceeds going to charity. The Martin Exhibition Garden is a large garden and is quite flat so suitable for wheelchairs. This is a private home and is ONLY open to the public during the Carnival of Flowers.

The Martin Exhibition Garden is open from 9am tomorrow morning. Marj & Phil look forward to welcoming you to their new g...
17/09/2026

The Martin Exhibition Garden is open from 9am tomorrow morning. Marj & Phil look forward to welcoming you to their new garden. 🪴

14/09/2026
The cushions we made for the seat swing in the old garden are perfect on the freshly painted bench seat in the new garde...
12/09/2026

The cushions we made for the seat swing in the old garden are perfect on the freshly painted bench seat in the new garden.

The finishing touches to the Japanese garden with the completed installation of the Deer Scarer. Very happy with how it ...
10/09/2026

The finishing touches to the Japanese garden with the completed installation of the Deer Scarer. Very happy with how it worked out

08/09/2026

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When you daughter doesn’t have a green thumb and asks what are the pots of dirt for 🫣? (Because she thinks it resembles ...
04/09/2026

When you daughter doesn’t have a green thumb and asks what are the pots of dirt for 🫣? (Because she thinks it resembles her garden 😂😂)

They are actually sleeping Hostas - which should be coming through for Carnival

King Orchids about to come in to full bloom so should be looking superb in time for Carnival of Flowers
02/09/2026

King Orchids about to come in to full bloom so should be looking superb in time for Carnival of Flowers

Alstroemeria “Indian Summer”, flowers nearly all year and such pretty colours.
31/08/2026

Alstroemeria “Indian Summer”, flowers nearly all year and such pretty colours.

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