Tugurium Open Garden

Tugurium is the fascinating private garden of renowned garden expert, radio personality, and nurseryman Stephen Ryan. Set on a peaceful country lane at Macedon, the garden showcases Stephen’s decades-long dedication to collecting and curating rare and unusual plants, including species on the Plant Trust National Plant Collections Register, such as Acanthus, Sambucus, and Osmanthus.

Stephen’s private woodland-style garden has been developed in a fairly unstructured way, which suits the site perfectly. This is a wonderful garden for exploring, with winding paths meandering through woodland plantings, a restful pond, and a circular lawn with a small orchard and neighbouring vegetable garden. Children will love discovering unexpected garden curiosities, including the happy ducks and chickens in the chook house dubbed ‘Cluckingham Palace’.

Visitors can purchase Craig Lidgerwood’s inspiring botanic artwork and peruse the rare plants for sale from Stephen’s nearby nursery, Dicksonia Rare Plants.

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