{"product_id":"2-garden-entries-book-pre-order","title":"2 Garden Entries + 1 Book Pre-order","description":"\u003cp\u003eGarden entry for \u003cstrong\u003etwo people\u003c\/strong\u003e for the open weekend, plus \u003cstrong\u003eone\u003c\/strong\u003e pre-ordered copy of Carolyn Robinson's book \u003cem\u003eA Garden Is Not a Painting\u003c\/em\u003e posted to you free of charge upon publication. Just show your order confirmation email at the garden gate for entry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGarden entry for \u003cstrong\u003etwo people\u003c\/strong\u003e, valid \u003cstrong\u003eSaturday 17 or Sunday 18 October 2026\u003c\/strong\u003e, 9.30 am – 4 pm · \u003cstrong\u003e$40\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOne copy of the book, pre-ordered · \u003cstrong\u003e$70\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eFree postage\u003c\/strong\u003e when the book is released in March 2027\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e$110 all up, with postage included. \u003c\/strong\u003ePlease make sure the postal address you give at checkout is where you’d like the book sent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eOpen Garden Day\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEntry to Carolyn Robinson’s garden for the spring open weekend. Just show your order confirmation email at the gate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eValid on \u003cstrong\u003eeither day\u003c\/strong\u003e – Saturday 17 or Sunday 18 October 2026\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOpen \u003cstrong\u003e9.30am to 4pm\u003c\/strong\u003e both days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAdmits \u003cstrong\u003etwo people\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNew England Tablelands, northern NSW · 20mins south of Tenterfield\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAddress: Rural number 707 Bluff River Road, Sandy Flat, Tenterfield. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/bu4z5XDr4BM4oVeF7\"\u003eDirections on Google Maps\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTea, coffee and light lunches\u003c\/strong\u003e provided by Red Cross volunteers. Cash only.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFree entry for children under 16\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlantsman David Johnstone will be selling plants on the day, including the ornamental grasses that Carolyn adores\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eForty-one varieties of Carolyn's favourite plants are also for sale as tubestock, grown for this weekend by Sarah Caldwell of Mole Station Native Nursery. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/shop.galahpress.com\/collections\/carolyns-spring-plant-drive-2026\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePre-order online only by 20 September\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e to pick up at the open garden weekend.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA note on the drive.\u003c\/strong\u003e Bluff River Road is a well-graded country dirt road, and it's 7km from the turnoff to the garden. Along the way there are several places where traffic needs to give way — at property grids and at two river causeways. Ordinary cars and small buses are fine, but the road is not suitable for buses carrying more than 30 people. Please drive with care, caution and courtesy.\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the book\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA garden of a lifetime takes, well, a lifetime. Carolyn Robinson has made two.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGlenrock came first – eight bare acres on the New England Tablelands that became one of the country's most admired traditional gardens. Then at 55 Carolyn began again, from nothing, on a granite rise above the Bluff River south of Tenterfield. Eagles Bluff is the rarest thing in a gardening life: a chance to do it all again, with hindsight.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt is from here that she looks back – on the two gardens she made for herself, and the many she has made for others across northern New South Wales and southern Queensland. What she offers is not only what to plant, but how to think about planting it: how to read a place before you touch it, how to garden through drought without surrendering beauty, why the gardens that move us are almost always shaped by a single pair of hands.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe title is not an argument against beauty. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Garden in not a Painting\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is something Carolyn came to see slowly, over decades in the garden. Buy a painting and you own it – it hangs on the wall. You might change; it doesn't. But plant a garden and you enter into something with it. \"A garden is never really finished,\" she writes. \"It grows, shifts and deepens with the seasons, and with you.\" That, she found, is where the pleasure is.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the tradition of Beth Chatto, it is written for the thoughtful reader who gardens, and for anyone making a garden for the first time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Galah Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49235627278490,"sku":"GP-2ENTRY-BOOK","price":110.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0497\/0548\/4442\/files\/Magazine_Template_-_Yellow_2.png?v=1785395244","url":"https:\/\/shop.galahpress.com\/products\/2-garden-entries-book-pre-order","provider":"Galah Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}