The Remembrance Field will be open to visitors from 15th October to 15th November. 

This Remembrance Field has become a National attraction with these poppies featured on cards and posters produced by the Veterans’ Affair’s Department for International distribution. Visitors come to the Granite Belt from all over Australia to see this field of poppies representing the way the fallow wheat fields of France and Belgium appeared before the devastation of the First World War.

The Granite Belt has a unique memorial, seven Flanders battlefield place names – Amiens, Messines, Bapaume, Passchendaele, Bullecourt, Pozieres and Fleurbaix. These were railway sidings for a soldier settlement established in 1920.
“If ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep though poppies grow in Flanders fields.”


Each year Eberhard and Fay Helwig keep the faith by planting the Remembrance Field in front of their home with red Flanders Poppies.
In the cool mountain climate of the Granite Belt these red poppies begin blooming mid-October and continue until the end of November.

Visitors may enter this private property for a $5.00 charge (children free) during the period, 15th October to 15th November to view and photograph the Remembrance Field or wander the paths of the garden. The remarkable gardens at Das Helwig Haus B&B feature a marvellous collection of Northern Hemisphere cottage garden flowers, shrubs and trees.

Alison Cotes, journalist with the Sunday Mail, wrote that the Das Helwig Haus garden is particularly magical in spring and summer when the gardens express the Helwig’s European heritage, with enough lupins, roses, poppies and delphiniums to transport you to another continent.

Ross McKinnon, the curator of the Mt.Coot-tha Queensland Botanic Gardens described the organic vegetable garden at Das Helwig Haus B&B as the best cool-climate vegetable garden he has seen in Queensland.

Want to stay awhile? Das Helwig Haus B& B offers Bed and Breakfast packages to garden lovers, painters and photographers. All self-contained, cottage style apartments or bedrooms in the main house overlook the garden.
Contact Fay Helwig 07-4683 4227

E-mail: helwig@halenet.com.au
Web: www.webstation.com.au/accom/helwig