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Sunflowers at Sunset Sunday 7 January
Sunflowers are blooming beautifully alongside our orchard. Bring the camera to capture sunflower picking as the sun drops low in the late afternoon sky shining through the sunflowers. Sunday afternoon 7 January 4:30 pm Bookings at roth.rezdy.com
New Years Sunflower and Morello sour picking
Some New Years fun - picking sunflowers and Morello sour cherries at Roth Family Orchard Open 30-31 Dec and 1 Jan Details and booking bookings - please click the booking button near top of home page. Our boys have grown an abundance of bright sunshiney flowers...
Sweet cherry season closes early in 2023
Sweet cherry season has closed already. Unfavourable weather conditions during blossom gave us a smaller than usual crop and the heat ripened this quickly. Here's to a better 2024 season!
Morello sour cherries
Open Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 December 8-10am for the Morello sour cherries. These are a very different kind of fruit - extremely sour. Full of flavour they are sought after for preserving. We planted these after many requests and this is our first real crop....
Employment
Experienced pruners are encouraged to contact us regarding pruning work in the autumn. We will next be recruiting for the 2024 picking season (November-December 2024)
ABC TV 7:30pm Friday 2 July
ABC TV is beaming our orchard right to your living room. Filmed in the peak of our cherry season last December, snippets from our orchard are part of a new show Movin' to the country
Sunflower Picking Sat 16 Jan 2021 from 1pm
Sunflowers and zinnias are bursting into colourful bloom in a pollinator feed strip that we planted alongside our cherry orchard. Book now to take a stroll through the blooms and pick yourself a bunch of colour to take home. One afternoon only Saturday 16 January from...
Summer 2020 Pick Your Own Cherries opens from 4 Dec [now closed]
2020 Season closed. Bookings for 2021 season will open after blossom when we can see we have cherries trees - here's hoping the season is kind and brings plenty of cherries! To be the first to know when bookings open, sign up to our Cherry Chatter occasional,...
Winter in the orchard
There's no fruit to pick right now. Our trees stand graceful with a sculptural beauty in their leafless winter dormancy. Pruned and fed they are saving resources and soaking in the winter chill as they get ready to burst into blossom in spring for fruit in summer. ...