This Saturday, November 8, Mrs Stubbs throws open her gates again in aid of Monaro oncology support MCCR and Snowy Mountains Grammar School and as it coincides with the Snowy Ride, she is hoping to entice a few of the more hardy riders and bikes down her unsealed driveway.

And for those that do make it, there will plenty to see.

In the garden the lupins, perennial wallflowers and aquilegias are blooming nicely and work away from the central part of the garden has seen the installation of a rather different 'bus shelter'.

On Saturday they will be serving Devonshire Teas, sandwiches and running a barbecue as well as a raffle and for the kids there's a petting paddock too.

Aspiring gardeners will find inspiration and plants to buy from Leonie Donkin's Eastside Nursery stall. There will be lavender, products from Diana McInnes' Design and Detail, and garden sculpture as well as furniture made from recycled materials.

Ardent recycler, Ian Murray, designs furniture from the recycled materials he finds and with Mrs Stubbs is setting up a recycled building which includes the beams from the old Prince of Wales Hotel in Cooma. On Saturday he will also be selling off bric a brac and recycled materials.

Hillside is an 1850s cottage and Mrs Stubbs will be displaying items and photographs relating to her father and his 63 consecutive years as a drover in the High Country.

"It's an acknowledgement of the hardship many of these people went through," she said.

WHAT:

Hillside Open Garden Day

WHEN:

Saturday November 8 10am-4.30pm, cost $5

WHERE:

8.6km from Berridale, follow the signs on Middlingbank Road.