Eagles Bluff Open Garden Weekend

Saturday 17 & Sunday 18 October 2026 · 9.30 am to 4 pm
707 Bluff River Road, Sandy Flat, New South Wales
New England Tablelands, about 25 minutes south of Tenterfield

A garden fifteen years in the making, open for two days

Carolyn Robinson has created two nationally significant gardens near the NSW country town of Tenterfield. The first, Glenrock, grew from eight bare acres into "perhaps the finest recent example of a traditional Australian country garden" according to an exhibition by the State Library of NSW, brimming with hedges, glorious garden beds, woodlands and drystone walls.

The second she began at 58, from nothing, on a granite rise above the Bluff River.

Eagles Bluff is now a magnificent contemporary garden of five acres, bounded by river on two sides and backed by wilderness. It's where Carolyn has been able to express, in garden form, all that she has learned over decades of gardening with the rare benefit of hindsight. For one weekend only, she's opening Eagles Bluff to the public.

Come and see the garden

Entry is $20 a head, payable online or at the gate. Both days, 9.30 am to 4 pm.

Book garden entry – $20

 

Take some plants home

Forty-one varieties of Carolyn's favourite plants for sale as tubestock, grown for this weekend by Sarah Caldwell of Mole Station Native Nursery. $8.50 a tube.

Order online by 20 September and collect on the day. No postage, and no sales at the gate. Garden entry ($20 a head) is separate.

Browse the plants

 

Read the book

Carolyn’s first book, A Garden Is Not a Painting, comes out in March 2027. It isn’t only a gardening how-to guide – although it does contain a wealth of practical information – it’s also about what thirty-odd years of planting, failing and starting again teaches you about a place, and about yourself.

A beautifully made hardcover book, with photography throughout by Brigid Arnott. Pre-order now and we’ll post it to you after launch in March 2027. Pre-order book.

Coming and want the book? Garden Entry + Book Pre-order is $90 with postage included – $15 less than buying them separately.

Too far to come? The book will find you wherever you are. 

 

Practical details

  • Where – 707 Bluff River Road, Sandy Flat NSW · Directions on Google Maps
  • When – Saturday 17 and Sunday 18 October 2026, 9.30 am to 4 pm
  • Entry – $20 per person, at the gate or online beforehand
  • Parking – on site, with signage on the day
  • Plants – pre-ordered online only. Orders close 20 September. Collect on the day.