Springtime Tasmania

Springtime Tasmania
From AUD $4,295.00
  • Duration: 8 Days (approx.)
  • Location: TAS
  • Product code: TASSP24

DAY 1  WED 2 OCT

home to DEVONPORT

Morning flight from Sydney to Launceston or meet in Devonport. Coach transfer to Devonport located on the banks of the Mersey River. Check into your hotel for 2 nights. Welcome Dinner included this evening.

Novotel Hotel, Devonport

DAY 2  THU 3 OCT

TABLE CAPE TULIP FARM

It’s all about tulips this morning at Van Diemen’s Tulip Farm on beautiful Table Cape, where tulips are planted in giant coloured bands across the landscape. You will think you are in Holland! Travel inland to Emu Valley Rhododendron Garden. The combination of cool summers and almost frost-free conditions allows the 900 rhododendron species to grow happily along with flowering cherries and cool temp trees coming into new leaf at this time.

Novotel Hotel, Devonport

DAY 3  FRI 4 OCT

DEVONPORT TO LAUNCESTON 

Bob Cherry is a master nurseryman. Having travelled the world collecting plants, he has now retired to this beautiful corner of NW Tasmania and made a beguiling new garden with an unforgettable sense of place. At the time of our visit, poppies, sweet peas and waratahs are picked daily. Spend time with Bob and Derelie this morning in their ‘Master’ garden. Travel on to Nietta and Kaydale Lodge Garden where two sisters work tirelessly to maintain and extend the garden their parents started. Superb stone walls and fences, astonishing pear walk, grand wisteria arbour, kitchen garden with new greenhouse, stand testament to their endeavours. When the sun goes down, they get busy in the kitchen bottling, pickling and preserving their fruit and vegetables. In spring it’s awash with bulbs; tulips, fritillarias, erythroniums, trilliums and daffodils. Check in to Peppers Silo Hotel overlooking the Tamar River in Launceston. Dinner is included tonight.

Peppers Silo Hotel, Launceston

DAY 4  SAT 5 OCT

tamar river

A day to explore this mighty river. The day starts with a ‘discovery’ tour of Launceston’s lovely old ‘heritage-listed’ city buildings. Seahorse World is next, at Beauty Point, near the mouth of the Tamar. Last stop today is a wine tasting at Waterton Hall cool climate winery with its grand old manor house and fine suite of gardens on the river.

Peppers Silo Hotel, Launceston

DAY 5  SUN 6 OCT

launceston to hobart

We’ll take the Midland Highway to Hobart today with a stop in historic Ross. This pretty riverside village was built by convicts and boasts well preserved cobblestone paths, pretty gardens and grand old elm trees. Next stop is lunch in New Norfolk at The Agrarian Kitchen, Tassie’s adored restaurant, cooking school and kitchen garden. 

Continue to Hobart, check in to your hotel for the next 3 nights.

Crowne Plaza, Hobart

DAY 6  MON 7 OCT

huon valley

Spend the morning with Sally, a true plantsperson with an extraordinary palette of rare plants. Enjoy a panoramic view of Hobart from the summit of Mt Wellington. Then we’re heading down the Huon Valley for a visit to Willie Smith’s Apple Shed to learn about the history of the apple industry, and the various heirloom apple varieties. Crawleighwood Garden is our last stop today, a large country garden nestled in the hills.

Crowne Plaza, Hobart

DAY 7  TUE 8 OCT

hobart

Corinda Cottage this morning, a beautifully restored Victorian villa wrapped in a masterfully executed garden. Free time this afternoon to explore Hobart or an optional visit to the phenomenal MONA (Museum of Old and New Art). MONA’s subterranean architecture showcases David Walsh’s $110m private collection of art and antiquities. Farewell dinner at famous Mures Upper Deck restaurant this evening.

Crowne Plaza, Hobart

DAY 8  WED 9 OCT

hobart to home

Morning stroll around Hobart’s Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, a fine finale for our spring garden tour.

Afternoon flight from Hobart.