Gundabooka

Gundabooka is located in rural Everton, about midway between Wangaratta and Beechworth. Owners Elizabeth and Steve Mason have deep roots in the region with their children and grandchildren, the sixth and seventh generations to have lived here. Sixteen years ago, they built the new homestead, which captures views of Mount Buffalo in the distance.

The beautiful rock work in the garden is all Elizabeth’s work, using alluvial stones found in the farm’s paddocks and inspired by Edna Walling’s style of stacking rock with minimal mortar. Structures include a lamp base pillar, iron gate piers, and during lockdowns, a Sissinghurst-inspired folly—a wall ruin with an iron window feature—was added.

Highlights of this beautiful garden include, a clipped privet hedge (Ligustrum Vulgare), a row of stunning pleached Bradford pears, hedged white oleanders and blue agapanthus along the entry fence line. The stunning all-white garden is also a stunning feature, featuring a row of Cypress Glauca and Stricta, Crepe myrtles (Natchez), standard Icebergs and Margaret Merrill roses, Abelia, four climbing roses along the front and snowball agapanthus.

Tickets are available at the gate or online: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1182857?

Open Gardens Victoria wish to acknowledge the Traditional custodians of this land and we pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging.