Open 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.

Located opposite the Castlemaine Botanical Gardens and drawing on the stunning borrowed landscape of Forest Hall next door, Clontarf is the seventh historic garden across half a century that owners Beverly and Anthony Knight have saved from neglect in the district.

Located just north of Castlemaine, the 3-acre garden at Hedgehogs surrounds a 1923 farmhouse tended by owners Margot and Morry Rotten for 32 years.