About
River Garden is an outdoor space by Camille Laddawan
and Roslyn Orlando.
There are three tiers of activity —
1. Produce & Flowers
2. Artistic Programs
3. Learning
Address
River Garden
Abbotsford Convent
Wurundjeri Country
1 Heliers Street
Abbotsford VIC
3067 Australia
River Garden is located within the Convent between the heritage gardens and the Birrarung river, next to the cork oak trees.
Map pin here
Alternatvely, please go to the front office of Abbotsford Convent and ask for directions.
Contact
hellorivergarden@gmail.com
Instagram
Collaboration
If you have an idea for use of the garden and would like to collaborate, please email us.
Produce & Flowers
Open Sunday
11am — 2pm
We cut our flowers fresh when you purchase them and package our seasonal produce in small take home boxes.
On collection mornings, we will post what we have on Instgaram.
Instagram @river_garden__
We also supply direct to florists and hospitality. If you are interested in speciality produce, please email us.
Artistic Programs & Learning
Even Serpents
Get
The Blues
Even Serpents Get The Blues is River Garden’s summer launch program.
We’re all freaks in one way or another, says the Countess. This is sacred information. Who calls mercy, who smells magic? Why are the snakes moving to the coast, taking an interest in the minor third? The invitation is to drift and be filled with clues.
A summer performance program at River Garden with the lineup to be announced soon.
Launching early December.
Food & Drinks
Weed pie $5
Saltbush & fingerlime soda $5
Nature-Based Therapy
For Children and Adolescents
Camille Moir is a registered art therapist who runs individual, nature-based therapy at River Garden
for children and adolescents.
Camille holds a Master of Art Therapy from La Trobe University and is completing a Master of Child Psychotherapy at Monash University.
For more information, email hellorivergarden@gmail.com
Or find her website here:
www.camillemoir.com
Garden Club
Garden Club is a study group facilitated by Roslyn Orlando.
Over eight weeks we will meet at River Garden to unpack some of the current cultural and political aspects of gardening.
We will engage with texts spanning literature and film, botany and horticulture, academia and cultural critique. Our collective learning will be centred on the Melbounre/Narrm context, with forays into international histories, lineages and gardening practices that might inform how we garden today.
The fee for participation will be $15 per week.
Places will be limited to 20 participants.
Expressions of interest for 2027 will be open soon.