The Red Hill Agricultural Show

Saturday, 8th of March 2025 , 8.30 am - 5 pm

Red Hill Recreation Reserve & Showgrounds. 184 Arthurs Seat Road, Red Hill 3937

The 96th annual show at the Red Hill Showgrounds will feature the best craft and animal exhibits, food, wine, beer and cider the Peninsula has to offer, as well as rides, music and entertainment for all ages.

The Melbourne International Flower & Garden Show

Wednesday 26th, to Sunday 30th, March.

Royal Exhibition Building & Carlton Gardens, Melbourne.

Join us at this year’s Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show for “Follow the Sun”, a breath taking display of 1,000 heirloom sunflowers. 

Showcasing eight rare varieties, this activation highlights the importance of seed saving and preserving Australia’s gardening heritage.  

Visit our “Follow the Sun” display (B48) and be part of this celebration of sustainability, community, and the future of gardening.

Seymour Alternative Farming Expo 

4th - 6th of April 2025

Kings Park 55 Tallarook St, Seymour Victoria

Join us in the heart of Victoria at this annual event, with almost 400 exhibitors exploring the latest practices, technology and trends in small scale and backyard farming.    

Author talks and book signings

Find out how gardens not only create gardeners but writers too. 

Heronswood Gardens and Nursery 

We bring you the latest in garden ideas and inspiration with our author talk program. Join us at Heronswood for an intimate facilitated conversation with authors.

These sessions are limited to 40 people. Find out why our guests are motivated to write and when their passion for plants began. What is the one thing they want other gardeners to understand about their work?

This 90-minute program includes time for your questions, book signings and afternoon tea with our author at our historic Heronswood House.

Ticket prices:
$35.00 (members) $45.00 (non-members)

Heronswood Unearthed: The evolution of a garden

Presented by Julian Blackhirst, Head of Gardens at the Diggers Club.

18th of May 2025, 10.00 am - 11.30 am 

466 Esplanade Mount Martha, Mount Martha House

As part of the Australian Heritage Festival (Victoria) join Julian Blackhirst from The Diggers Club for an inspiring look at the transformation of the iconic Heronswood garden.

Discover its rich history - from early designs by Edward Latrobe Bateman to its evolution into a world-class heritage garden. Julian shares insights on sustainable gardening, heirloom preservation, and the ongoing stewardship of this living legacy.

Entry fee: Free 

Winter Solstice at The Garden of St Erth

21st of June 2025

The Garden of St Erth, 189 Simmons Reed Road, Blackwood

Join the Diggers team as we rug up to celebrate the longest night of winter with our local community. An afternoon of solstice-themed family activities followed by an evening of live music, local food and mulled wine.    

Afternoon session from 2pm, evening session from 6pm.

Harnessing the flow of Mundus Imaginalis - Nature Festival SA

Friday 10th October 2025
3.45 pm - 5.00 pm

Hetzel Room, State Library of South Australia

Julian Blackhirst, Head of Gardens at the Diggers Club believes that there is a garden in the mind. The Mundus Imaginalis, the imaginal world or the world of ideas informs Julian’s gardening practice. His approach to gardening is a combination of human imagination with the magic of nature.

Join him as he explores the concept of the flow of ideas between us and nature. When a garden dies back, our experience of that garden disappears into our memory and into the earth.

A Decade of Diggers

Saturday 11th October 2025
Free members event

Adelaide Botanic Gardens

Over the past decade, the Diggers Club has embraced change across five key areas, from adapting our gardens to a changing climate, introducing more sustainable business practices and expanding education programs, to advancing research in heirloom seeds and strengthening our Foundation’s role in biodiversity and sustainability.

Join us for morning tea and conversation with Diggers staff, including our CEO, Head of Gardens, Adelaide Retail Manager, and Manager of Education and Events.

Registration is essential as places are limited.

Botanica World Discoveries - Spring Garden Tour

27th - 30th October 2025

Four day tour departing from Melbourne

Enjoy an exclusive, behind-the-scenes look at the work of The Diggers Club. Learn about the not-for-profit’s bank of heirloom seeds, which preserves the integrity of its organic seeds.

Meet founders Clive and Penny Blazey, whose ongoing efforts ensure a diversity of plant life.

Visit the three Diggers Club gardens – The Garden of St Erth, Heronswood, and Cloudehill. Meet our team of diligent gardeners for private tours and visit Burnley Gardens, the prestigious horticultural institution.