“Friendship Through Gardening”
Established in 1995 the Coal River Valley Garden Club was formed to promote the enjoyment of gardening, friendship and community.
We provide and foster the sharing of gardening, horticultural and environmental knowledge and resources. Also providing members with networking opportunities through monthly meetings with guest speakers, followed by the 3 c’s - cake, cuppa and chat.
The Coal River Valley Garden Club also:
Encourages garden projects in local schools with regular donations.
Donates to the beautification of local public areas, and to community organisations.
Aims to be involved in other local community celebrations, activities and events.
Excursions
Supports various charities.
Members raise club funds through the monthly meeting raffle, and by the selling of propagated plants, garden produce, and preserves through the trade table.
Our garden club welcomes all gardeners, from the obsessive single species collector to the owner of their first house plant.
The kinship of a garden club is immeasurable. Most gardeners see their gardens as sanctuaries and put effort into creating a private haven away from the world. Our club enables passionate plant people to belong, to share and to learn.
Who We Are
Daisy Chain
The Daisy Chain Newsletter is published every other month (except in December).
It welcomes new members, provides information of upcoming events, items of interest, garden related stories and ideas.
Every edition also includes a seasonal recipe by a club member.
Richmond and the Coal River Valley, Tasmania
The Coal River Valley Garden Club with a membership of over 80 members, is based in Richmond Tasmania, in the geographic heart of the fabulously productive Coal River Valley.
Richmond is a historic, Georgian village with a population of around 1500. It has over 50 historic buildings built mostly in the 1820’s.
The town was enabled to prosper as an early settlement, due to an abundant supply of both convict labour and the sandstone necessary for buildings and infrastructure development.
Established in 1824 Richmond is home to Australia’s oldest bridge, built when Richmond was Tasmania’s third largest town (1823). Richmond is also home to Australia’s oldest intact gaol (1825), oldest remaining Catholic church (1836), and Tasmania’s oldest continually operating Catholic school (1834). Also built in 1834 is Richmond primary school whose original convict built school house, is Australia’s oldest continuously operating public education facility.
Our beautiful Coal River Valley is 24km North East of Hobart and originally served as an important food bowl for the early settlements in Hobart Town and Sydney, NSW. We were Australia’s most important grain growing area.
The valley was named following the discovery of a coal seam along the river banks in the early 1800’s. Early settlers in the valley ran a mixture of crop and grazing properties. In those early days ships could come right up to the edge of the town to load. The valley soil is very fertile and wheat was one of our early exports.
The Coal River Valley owes a great deal to the early adoption of irrigation which has enabled intensive horticulture. Today the valley is home to a world renowned wine region. Alongside the award winning vineyards you can find a Christmas tree farm, walnut, fruit and berry farms, cheesemakers, whiskey distilleries, olive groves, chocolatiers, apiarists, specialist seed, poppy and turf farmers, and many other artisans.
Surrounding sheep and cattle farms complete the rural picture.