Garden lovers are ringing in the new season with all the fun of the fair.
More than 1500 visitors are expected to converge on the historic Bolobek gardens at Macedon for the annual Mount Macedon Horticultural Society Garden Lovers Fair on the weekend of September 17-18.
The fair has been run for more than a decade and attracts visitors from around Australia.
About 30 stallholders will include local and interstate specialist plant growers, tool makers, sellers of garden power tools and garden furniture importers.
Stalls will also be selling lunches, homemade cakes, biscuits, jams and jellies, and garden produce.
Society secretary Christine Heazlewood and committee member Chris Williams will be on hand to welcome new members.
Ms Heazlewood says visitors can also sample local wines and wander through the impressive property. “Bolobek, in the foothills of Mount Macedon, is an historic place that’s been inspiring gardeners for more than a century,” she says.
“It’s a very apt backdrop for this event.”
ABC television gardening personality Stephen Ryan, of Dicksonia Rare Plants in Mount Macedon, will be among the special guests offering tricks of the nursery trade throughout the weekend.
The fair is open from 10am to 4pm.
Entry is $10 but free for visitors under 18.
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