Yamba

Set on approximately three acres in Caramut, Yamba is a passionate plant collector’s garden on a working Western District farm, filled with a variety of perennials, grasses, trees, hedges, and bulbs.

Owner Helen Diprose moved to Yamba nearly 20 years ago, and discovered challenging rocky clay soil and no garden. Helen has spent many years enhancing drainage, improving the soil quality, and building raised beds to help the garden survive and thrive.

Helen’s plant selection reflects her desire to pick subject matter all year round and includes stunning cut flowers such as dahlias, delphinium, peony, chrysanthemum, and an array of salvias, heleniums, helianthus, and rudbeckia. Bulbs are planted en masse, with bluebells in profusion under the forty oaks on the property and daffodils in long beds with pencil pines at regular intervals. A striking feature of the garden is its array of beautifully clipped hedges.

An avenue of trees and a productive vegetable garden also feature, and visitors will enjoy unexpected encounters with a small flock of much-loved guinea fowl.

Tickets available online via TryBooking: https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1235564

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