Greystanes Disability Services will open its accessible garden at 2 Grose Street, Leura over the long weekend (October 1-3) in association with the Leura Gardens Festival.
Free car parking and bathroom facilities are offered for wheelchair users.
Today, about 30 young members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints volunteered to help tidy up the garden. The volunteers from nine different countries were helping prepare the accessible garden for the open garden days.
For the past several years the young missionaries have given up their time to help clean up the gardens of Grose Street and Greystanes Disability Services community living homes.
“It is wonderful to have so many energetic people working in the garden, helping make it a beautiful space for the people Greystanes supports to engage in their daily activities,” said Vanessa Balfour, community engagement co-ordinator with Greystanes.
Jesse Campton from Adam’s Eden Gardening, a contractor for Greystanes, is so dedicated to the accessible garden that he helped sell sausages outside Katoomba Woolworths in order to raise money to buy new plants.
The garden will be open from October 1-3. Entry fee is a donation and is not included in the Leura Gardens Festival tickets. Relax from the busy crowds or stop for a picnic. Lily’s Pad Café at Leura will be serving Morgan’s coffee, hot chocolate, chais and in-house pastries.