Wildwood’s Spectacular Salvias

Salvias have long been a popular choice for home gardens and for very good reason. They come in a multitude of colours, flower prolifically from summer through autumn, some with winter blooms. Birds and bees love the tubular flowers and…

Destination Sydney – Barangaroo Reserve

Graham Ross describes Barangaroo Reserve as “a monumental example of urban renewal”. It’s truly a remarkable story of the transformation of a disused container terminal on the edge of Sydney’s CBD into a spectacular 22-hectare waterfront precinct. When Barangaroo was…

Chelsea Flower Show with Colin Barlow

Meet Colin Barlow, Ross Tours Guide Colin Barlow is a well known garden designer and media personality from Perth and one of Ross Tours’ expert tour leaders. British born, Colin’s first Chelsea experience was at 12 years when he visited…

Virtual Chelsea Starts Next Week

Chelsea Flower Show is the world’s greatest flower show and this year it’s going digital. For six days, world-leading designers, plant experts and gardening personalities will inspire us virtually with tours of their own gardens, sharing design tips, planting advice, showing…

A Celebration of Colour

As we head into May, Ross Garden Tours is continuing our mission to keep you connected virtually to what’s happening in gardens around the world. Today we’re celebrating the colours of spring and autumn. Japan’s Ashikaga Flower Park and America’s…

Wildwood, Bilpin

Plants are a long-term passion for Wayne and Sue Tapping. For decades they ran a wholesale nursery, landscape yard and retail garden centre. That wasn’t quite enough plant life and plant creativity for the Tappings so at the same time…