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About us

We’re Penny and Pav. We started with a bare paddock 30 years ago. We built our home… Created a garden.

We called it Crawleighwood. And we want to share it with you.

Pav and Penny in their beautiful garden at Crawleighwood

Pav and Penny

This is our garden. It’s our hobby and our passion. And we love to share it. So come and visit us. We’ll show you round. Or you can wander and explore.

Our garden showcases both endemic and exotic species. In Crawleighwood Garden it’s the combination that counts. New ideas come constantly. We have hectares more land for the garden to expand into. And years of work ahead!

The house we have built (and are still building!) reflects our love of Tasmania’s wonderful timbers. These are featured throughout the home and are also growing in our garden in the extensive ‘Gondwana’ collection.

In the nursery we propagate a diversity of plants. Some are rare and unusual exotics that occasionally come our way. When you visit, make sure you chat with us about what might work in your garden.

a beautiful full blown rose

Of course it’s not only plants we’re on about. The garden has many ‘rooms’, peaceful alcoves, views and a plethora of flowers, ferns, fungi, insects – and rusty sculpture that appears when you least expect it.

Come and visit and enjoy!


white waratahs in full bloom

Our garden

Crawleighwood Garden & Nursery is a four hectare garden featuring rhododendrons, maple woodlands and Gondwanan rainforest species. There are many rare and unusual plants waiting for you to discover.

Enjoy the brilliant spring and autumn colours. Great for weddings, family picnics or family occasions.

We have a wide variety of plants for sale.


steel sculptures of tall, gangly birds with blue bottle eyes

And the surprises

Explore the garden and you’ll come across unexpected pleasures. A water feature, a fire casket, elegant wrought iron furniture… or rusty steel farming equipment rearranged into delightul scluptures.


sun shines through red leaves, shiny trunks

Our plants featured on Gardening Australia (ABCTV 20 March 2020)

Delavy’s Fir – Abies delavayi
Japanese Maple – Acer palmatum cv.
Tibetan Cherry – Prunus serrula
Pencil Pine – Athrotaxis cupressoides
Deciduous Beech – Nothofagus gunnii
Tasmanian Cedar – Athrotaxis laxifolia
Huon Pine – Lagarostrobos franklinii
Californian Redwood – Sequoia sempervirens
Chilean Sassafras – Laurelia sempervirens

View the entire program in high definition on ABC iView.

Look on the Gardening Australia on iView for Series 31 Episode 7. Or use the iView app on your phone or tablet.

Or view the Crawleighwood Arboretum segment only on the ABC’s Gardening Australia site (low definition).

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