Created in 1994 by landscape designer Grant Saltmarsh, the 1.5-acre garden includes a sunken garden, a caged vegetable garden, and meandering paths flanked by perennial beds and mature fruit trees, often ducking off into secret hidden corners.
Sunnymeade is the home garden of landscape designer Peter Shaw. It's a creative and practical space with a strong connection to the coastal bush landscape around it.
With the imaginative eye of an artist and the green thumb of a keen gardener, Lou Ramsay and resourceful partner Ian have created a garden they call PunkiPot. Like its intriguing name, it is charming and unique. Visit the garden this February!
Buttenshaw Farm in Montrose is a highly aspirational three-quarter-acre organic and permaculture micro-seed farm garden at the base of the Dandenong Ranges.
The Haven is located in Mooroolbark. This small productive garden demonstrates great diversity, focusing on growing in pots and containers.
Located in Mooroolbark, you’ll find The Aussie Veggie Patch, an 800m² chemical-free garden owned by Instagram-famous vegie gardener Tim Johnston.
Visit the beautiful DDS Garden this February. The entrance courtyard has a Japanese theme, with a superb cloud pruned jade plant. The Japanese theme continues and includes a paved area under tall shady elm trees – delightful in summer!
Built around a straw-bale home overlooking a seasonal waterfall, renowned perennial garden designer and artist Ralph Bristow’s breathtaking semi-wild garden opens with Open Gardens Victoria on the first weekend in March 2024.
Spend a day in The Big Little Garden. In a rectangular area, foliage and flowers spill over onto a network of narrow little sawdust paths that crisscross through the garden beds. Towering above head height are buttery yellow rudbeckia, huge golden sunflowers, bright annual cosmos with their lovely lime green foliage, purple verbena and eupatorium.
Frosty Flats a true cottage garden full of flowers in all colours, sweet scents and a mass of varied foliage textures.
Come visit the beautiful Seachange Retreat — a small, bright and cheerful cottage garden crammed with flowers and pieces of colourful garden art!
Visit the beautiful, sprawling country garden, Still Water, in South Australia's wine region, Coonawarra. In autumn the fruit on the trees in the small quince orchard are a beautiful golden colour. Tour the orchard and purchase fresh quince preserves and products.
