Miller Bay

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This Open Day is presented in partnership with the Albers Marcovina Vista Gardens Foundation. The Albers Marcovina Vista Gardens can be visited alongside your Open Day, or during the garden's other visiting hours. Please visit their website for ticketing and visiting information.

A beautiful property on Miller Bay became a gardener's paradise. A stream runs through the property with two natural ponds with lots of wildlife including a resident Blue Heron. Old apple trees shade the house and chapel and a koi pond is situated near the house with a Mediterranean garden on one side, a rose garden on the other, and a tropical garden behind it. As you walk through the tropical garden the path opens out into an all-season grass garden (featured in Fine Gardening Magazine in 2024). Crossing the driveway by the upper pond is a white garden and a yellow garden with lots of yellow-needled conifers. Behind these is a small wildflower meadow that covers snowdrops after they bloom in winter. The path leads down to a bridge across the stream and up to the shade garden. Magnolias, species rhododendrons, dogwood and more rare plants here, the definition of a 'stuffed' garden. Behind the garage is a rustic greenhouse and steps up to a raised bed vegetable garden with espalier fruit trees and berries. The grassy area behind has a spring bulb meadow under the white birch trees.

Open Days Date: Saturday, June 21st

Hours: 10-4