On Saturday 27th September, 2025 our group outing will be a visit to Boongala Native

Gardens and Rainforest at 76 Pitt Town Road, Kenthurst.

Many of you would be very familiar with this iconic native garden, that was originally part of a citrus orchard and poultry farm, which has been transformed over the past 40 years from barren paddocks and privet infested areas by Malcolm and Jenny Johnston into the magnificent gardens and rainforest it is today.

A highlight for me at this time of the year is the many native orchids that will be flowering throughout the gardens and rainforest.

We will be meeting around 12 noon at Boongala but the Gardens open at 10am, so feel free to turn up anytime from then – I will most likely be there from 10am. Gardens close at 4pm so there will be plenty of time for a wander through and for exploring the many areas available. There will also be a good selection of plants available for sale.

Entry is $5.00 plus the rainforest tour is also $5.00, so cost will be $10 (payable on the day

upon entry) if you would like to do both.

We will have table and chairs available to have lunch in the Gardens - please bring your own lunch supplies. We will also have hot water available for tea and coffee – please bring your own cup.

The afternoon rainforest tour leaves at 1.30pm and is a fairly easy walk with a couple of

steeper bits in and out of the gully but nothing too strenuous.

If you haven’t been here before then you are in for a treat. If you have visited before then you would know that it is a magical place well worth returning to again and again.

Please let me know (lindapine@optusnet.com.au) if you plan on coming so we can give

Boongala an estimate on numbers for the day.

Linda Pine

Location of Gumnut Hall