Owy's Garden - A Gorgeous nursery in Bunbury

This weekend Perth is hosting Succulenticon - a conference for  all the different Australia Succulent and Cactus Societies. A chance  to visit some gardens, catch up and make friends from around Australia, and learn something new.

I had a friend fly in from Sydney on Wednesday, so we've been mapping out "places to visit" that were not included on the tour schedule.

Due to distance from Perth, Owy's garden was unfortunately not included, so that seemed  a great place to start.  A bit of a drive from Joondalup way, but well worth it.

Dave and his parents have create a virtual oasis for succulent/cactus minded people.  The beautiful gardens are impressive and would make for some fantastic photo shoots (we could picture wedding photos there.... just maybe not with little kids)

Anyway - first the gardens.

Sometimes its easier just to let photos speak rather than type words.

I must admit - not so many photos of the sale area here, but a great supply of succulent, cactii, bromeliads, and indoor tropically looking plants (that's the technical term - right ?)

Lots of lovely arrangements, premade, just in case you think you can't do it yourself

More cactus than you can poke a stick at (and a stick length is about as close as I want to come to these beasties... still not a fan of the spikies)

Was chatting with Dave's dad, that did most of the building and sourcing of materials.  He actually MADE this wagon. [darn it, no chance of something like that for my back yard!]

Dinosaurs still keep appearing in spots around the garden.

A lot of the shelves etc have been repurposed from metal recyclers - and it looks fantastic.  Suits the place perfectly and definitely adds to the charm. 

Dave and his family are super friendly and helpful.  They do their darndest to source plants for people that are looking for anything in particular, and I've seen some of the photos of gardens they have helped create.

All in all, Bunbury is lucky to have them, and its well worth the drive for those that AREN'T in Bunbury. (ESPECIALLY if you like dinosaurs 😁 - just remember to keep the kids/kids at heart out of the garden, agave spikes HURT)