Lee Adams Garden

This Bendigo garden is a wonderful example of what can be achieved on an average-sized suburban block with a modest budget and loads of imagination. Owner and garden designer Lee Adams has created a charming series of interconnecting garden rooms with special outdoor living spaces, providing a haven for birds, wildlife, and humans.

Through trial and error, Lee has discovered the best plants for the harsh central Victorian climate. The simple planting scheme includes an assortment of plants that Lee has grown mainly from cuttings and seedlings, including Japanese maples (Acer palmatum), native frangipani (Hymenosporum flavum), English box (Buxus sempervirens), olea, citrus, salvia, and succulents.

The garden also extends to the nature strip, much to the delight of neighbours and passersby. Drifts of grasses are punctuated with clipped native shrubs, lavender, rosemary, phlomis, and leonotis, keeping the bees happy as they foray out from their hive in a bird box in the large olive. Beautiful sculptures created by Lee and Barry McLoughlan (Wired for Living) are featured throughout the garden.

Lee Adams Garden is located on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung people. Open Gardens Victoria wish to acknowledge the Traditional custodians of this land and we pay respect to their Elders, past, present and emerging.