Tipsy Hill Estate

Name: Tipsy Hill Estate
Address: 309 Blewitt Springs Road, McLaren Vale, SA, 5171, AU
Telephone: +61 417 828615
Rating: 4.5

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Tipsy Hill Estate

A beautiful terraced Mediterranean-style house and gardens along the crest of a ridge with vineyards falling away on both sides, creating glorious views.
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A perfect backdrop for your perfect day. Tipsy Hill offers one of the most stunning locations in the McLaren Vale wine region. The property is set high on a hill with spectacular views across the region, and is surrounded by vineyards on either side of the garden. The garden is a maze of exciting areas, all linked by paths and offering a variety of seats, arches, pillars, walls and hedges. There i

s a unique spot with magnificent views at the end of each path, creating the perfect setting for the memories of a lifetime.

03/10/2024

Can you name this bird….?

As some of you may know, it’s our brand logo at Bec Hardy Wines, taking pride and place around Cellar Door, on our wine labels and wine glasses 🐦‍⬛🍷

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19/09/2024

Here’s the gorgeous flowering Crabapples at Tipsy Hill Estate - a stunning edition to the garden wouldn’t you agree? 🌸

12/09/2024

Our beautiful Wisteria flourishing yet again this Spring 🌿🪻🙌🏻

You have to see it to believe it 🤩

And not only is it stunning but makes for the perfect backdrop while enjoying one of our Premium Picnics or Garden Tours - see the link in the bio for more info!

05/09/2024

The start of Spring means the start of lots of new growth and life here in the Tipsy Hill Estate garden, such an exciting time of year and stunning to watch the garden come to life throughout Spring as we head into Summer… 🤩

Watch this space for more garden updates, garden tours and premium picnics as well as 2025 🌸🌱☀️

28/08/2024

✨ More garden rambles with Marian… continuing to look at how our garden can provide for nature…. The Banksia Tree grows really well in this area due to the sandy soil and provides seed source for the yellow-tailed black cockatoo, a large beautiful native bird that is long lived and specific about their food source, they love the Banksia tree seeds but will also enjoy pine nuts from a pine tree 🤩

22/08/2024

🌺🌼🪻 More garden rambles with Marian…

Today looking at how flowers not only look and smell beautiful in a garden but also provide nectar for our wildlife, did you know the red flowers attract birds ❤️ and yellow flowers attract bees 💛

01/08/2024

You wouldn’t be mistaken for thinking this is a beautiful Spring Day here at ☀️

One month left of Winter, we’re excited to see the garden grow and flourish as we head into Spring…. Watch this space 🌳🪻☘️🌷

18/07/2024

📢📢 Some very exciting news from Marian….

We are lucky enough to host early next year 🤩🙌🏻 so Marian and the team are busy at work planning and prepping to ensure the garden is looking its best come Summer 2025!

We can’t wait to show off the stunning Tipsy Hill Estate garden, watch this space for further updates…. 👀🌲🌹🌿🪻

11/07/2024

What a difference a month makes…. This is the Kniphofia Uvaria - Red Hot Pokers - what a stunning feature!

The first image is from early July and the second image is from a month prior: early June - wow 🤩

04/07/2024

Comparison time….

The stunning arbour in the middle of Winter ❄️ compared to the middle of Summer ☀️

Makes for a great dinner spot anytime of year (you may just need to wrap up!)

28/06/2024

Last month we talked about the 5 F’s of gardening with Marian…. Here’s a great example of ‘form’ and how different shapes and sizes really complement eachother and a garden 🌲🌳

20/06/2024

Meet Marian, our head gardener at Tipsy Hill:

“Horticulture and working with plants, soil and the natural environment enables me to balance my interactions with the real world and the virtual world. To that end I completed the Advanced Diploma in Horticulture from TAFE SA, and then set up (in conjunction with a fellow graduate) an all-female Landscape Design and Construction business, called “LandEscapes”
One day while working on the development of the spatial data set of the tree collection at the Waite Arboretum, a phone call came in from a certain Bec Hardy, asking where to find a gardener who may be capable of managing a large complex garden located in the Blewitt Springs area. My colleague at the time took the call and then knowing my previous horticultural background asked me if I would at all be interested…
I met with Bec on site, and after a walk through the garden, I was immediately taken by the beautiful garden, was quite intimidated by its size, but in my typical “I’ll give that a go” attitude and my instant comfortable rapport with Bec, I said yes.
Tipsy Hill won my heart that day and over the years now that I have worked there, I have only grown to love it more. The garden is large, complex and very intense. Originally over-planted to deliver an ‘instant’ mature garden feel, it is now part of the long-term plan to strategically remove overcrowded and overgrown woody shrubs and plants, transplant those that have similar climatic requirements together, and to build a more sustainable plant base by using local Australian Indigenous Plants wherever possible”

30/05/2024

More garden rambles with Marian… 🤩

Today looking at this magnificent tree and how it’s shredding its bark…. The actual terminology is ‘decorticating’ and as trees grow, they expand from the inside and on many tree species, the bark on the outside is ‘shed’ - this is common on Eucalypts (Gum Trees) and you can often see large strands of bark hanging off the main trunk and sometimes branches (on Mallee species particularly).

This particular tree is an Irish Strawberry Tree - Arbutus unedo - and the shedding of its bark is part of its natural growth process, with the cream new bark eventually becoming the rust brown colour of the overall bark.

21/03/2024

Today’s catch up with Marian was looking at ‘variation in form’ so the difference in types of plants and flowers, structure, shapes and heights…... So the overall look and contrast once they’re growing alongside eachother, as well as with the backdrop and surroundings 🌲🌵🌳

18/01/2024

That view 🙌🏻 Sometimes you just have to stop, take a breath and see the beauty that is right in front of your eyes….

Here’s one of the many stunning views from of our amazing region

How lucky are we? 🤩

07/12/2023

An array of flowers, trees, colours and beauty at every turn 🤩🪻🌾

05/12/2023

Marian hard at work 🌿🪻👏🏻

01/12/2023

Another instalment of garden rambles with Marian…. today she’s showing us one of the many transition areas and what she and the team have achieved 🙌🏻 another great example of Marian working her magic ☺️🌳🍃👏🏻

More garden rambles with Marian to come….

23/11/2023

Our stunning Tipsy Hill garden 🙌🏻🌿🌸

10/11/2023

It’s hot today in Adelaide so Churchill has found a spot in the shade 😅

03/11/2023

Following on from our last post, a close up of the beautiful Tipsy Imperial Concubine Rose

The inspiration behind our name

12/10/2023

“What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet.” William Shakespeare

Tipsy Imperial Concubine Rose that is…..

Do you know where the name came from?

10/10/2023

🌸 Springtime Splendor 🌸

Wisteria in full bloom = purple perfection! 🌿💜

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03/10/2023

As storm damage goes we got off fairly lightly last night but still a little impact. All part of the cycle of renewal. 😃

09/06/2023

Tree Daisy (Montanoa bipinnatifida) looking better than we have ever seen it after the mild summer this year.

Address

309 Blewitt Springs Road
McLaren Vale, SA
5171

Telephone

+61 417 828615

Website

http://www.bechardy.com.au/

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Can you name this bird….? As some of you may know, it’s our brand logo at Bec Hardy Wines, taking pride and place around Cellar Door, on our wine labels and wine glasses 🐦‍⬛🍷 #faunaandflora #bechardywines #birdlovers #mclarenvalrwineregion #gardeninspiration🍃💚

More garden rambles with Marian 🌿🙌🏻 Today talking about how our gardens/plant choice can not only look beautiful and offer visual aspects but can help our nature and wildlife too…. #gardenrambles #tipsyhillestate #nativeplants #gardenmotivation #birdsofaustralia #gardeninspiration

🌺🌼🪻 More garden rambles with Marian… Today looking at how flowers not only look and smell beautiful in a garden but also provide nectar for our wildlife, did you know the red flowers attract birds ❤️ and yellow flowers attract bees 💛 #tipsyhillestate #flowers #nectar #birds #bees #gardenlove

More garden rambles with Marian ✨🌿 Today talking about bringing our garden and nature together…. #gardenrambles #tipsyhillestate #nativeplants #birdsofaustralia #gardeninspiration

You know it’s Winter when there’s pruning going on…. Pruning the vines ready for a bud burst in the Spring months 🍇 We’ll keep you posted… watch this space 🤩 #pruning #wintervineyard #pertaringa #bechardy

Garden rambles with Marian…. Today admiring the beautiful daffodil 🌼 #daffodils #gardeninspiration #bechardy #opengardensa #mclarenvale

📢📢 Some very exciting news from Marian…. We are lucky enough to host #opengardensa early next year 🤩🙌🏻 so Marian and the team are busy at work planning and prepping to ensure the garden is looking its best come Summer 2025! We can’t wait to show off the stunning Tipsy Hill Estate garden, watch this space for further updates…. 👀🌲🌹🌿🪻 #opengardens #gardeninspriation #bechardywines #summergarden #pertaringa #gardenlove

Today in our Garden Rambles with Marian we looked at how the garden changes through the seasons… deciduous adjective (of a tree or shrub) shedding its leaves annually. #deciduoustrees #tipsyhillestate #autumntowinter #opengardensa #gardenlove

The stunning arbour @tipsyhill Have you had a walk through it yet? 🫶🏻 #mclarenvale #sagardens #bechardywines #gardendesign #opengarden

Another catch up with Marian @tipsyhill…. ‘From Buds to Nuts’ What we can see here is the entire flower sequence for a Gum Tree, the tightly packed buds with their ‘hard hats on’ those caps open up and fall off, the rich colourful stamens open out, although gum trees have no petals to their flowers, insects attracted by the nectar pollinate the flowers which then shed the stamens and then the seeds develop inside what becomes a swollen hard woody capsule that we all recognise as a Gum Nut! #gardenevolution #tipsyhill #opengardensa #gardenlove #bechardywines

We’ve waited all Summer for this…. Our Shasta Daisies in full bloom, taking you from transition to full bloom 🙌🏻😜 One of our previous garden rambles with Marian showed us the transition area where she had transplanted a section of Shasta Daisies to now, finally blooming and looking beautiful, great work Marian and team 👏🏻👏🏻 #shastadaisies #southaustralia #gardeninspiration #summertime #bechardy #opengardensa #gardentransformation #fullbloom #tipsyhill

Another instalment of garden rambles with Marian…. today she’s sharing with us one of the her formative pruning trees @tipsyhill. It’s not only about getting the trees and plants to grow well but to grow well in their surrounds ☺️🌳🍃👏🏻 More garden rambles with Marian to come…. #gardenrambles #tipsyhillestate #gardeninspiration #southaustralia #opengardensa #bechardywines #summergarden

Another instalment of garden rambles with Marian…. today she’s showing us how a garden can stimulate all our senses, not only our sight but smell too especially with Lavender🪻. This Lavender edge @tipsyhill both smells and looks amazing 💜 More garden rambles with Marian to come…. 🌱🙌🏻 #tipsyhill #gardenrambles #blewittsprings #tipsyhillestate #gardeninspiration #southaustralia #opengardensa #bechardywines #summergarden #gardenevents #lavender #opengardens #bechardy #mclarenvalewine #gardeninspiration #purpleflowers

That view 🙌🏻 Sometimes you just have to stop, take a breath and see the beauty that is right in front of your eyes…. Here’s one of the many stunning views from @tipsyhill of our amazing region #mclarenvale How lucky are we? 🤩