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Leura Gardens Festival -  Saturday 3 October to Sunday 11 October.

Leura Village Fair – Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th October

Nine stunning, private Blue Mountains gardens are open for two weeks during  one of Australia’s most visited garden festivals, the annual Leura Gardens Festival

The Leura Village Fair has been sponsored by the Leura Village Association for over 25 years. The central strip of the mall is filled with cherry blossom and the shops bring their goods out on to the pathways with lots of additional stalls.

The nine private gardens, rarely accessible to the public will open for the Festival, along with the National Trust property Everglades with one of Australia’s foremost heritage gardens that combine European-style, native bush and breathtaking views of the Blue Mountains National Park. The gardens are all located in Leura and accessible by a Festival shuttle bus.
Cool climate conifers and flowering plants the Blue Mountains is famous for, such as dogwoods, Japanese cherries, rhododendrons, camellias, azaleas, tulips, and lilacs will provide much colour.
New to the Festival in 2009 is the garden, Ilion. Another garden new to the Festival in 2009 is Abbotsford, which boasts magnificent valley views. It returns to the Festival after an extensive renovation. Shenstone, Rustlings, Brabourne, Wai-ila, Tanglewood, Elouera and the combined gardens of Dead End House/ Greenheys /Soleby, (classified as one garden for entry) are also included.
A multiple garden entry ticket costs $18.00 per person. This allows one entry to each of the gardens for the duration of the Festival, enabling visitors to spend several days in the Blue Mountains. Entry to individual gardens costs $5.00 per person. Gardens are open from 9.30am to 4.30pm.
A Leura Gardens Festival shuttle bus will meet trains at Leura station and provide transport to the gardens. The shuttle bus costs $5.00 per person for an all-day, hop-on-hop-off service.
Garden entry tickets can be purchased at the gates of all gardens during the Festival, from the Leura Gardens Festival stand at the top of Leura Mall or from Festival Headquarters in Fitzroy Street. The Leura Gardens Festival is a registered charity run by volunteers with the purpose of raising funds for the Blue Mountains District Anzac Memorial Hospital, to purchase specialist medical equipment.
For further information, visit www.leuragardensfestival.com.au To request a free Festival booklet email info@leuragardensfestival.com.au or telephone 0431 095 279.