The Ballarat Begonia Festival is set to return in 2025, transforming the Ballarat Botanical Gardens into a vibrant celebration of horticulture, sustainability and community.

Located in the peaceful West Gippsland hamlet of Nayook, Wensley Farm is a charming 2.5-acre country garden surrounding a restored 120-year-old farmhouse, lush with old-fashioned flowers and perfume, quiet green spaces, mature trees, and alive with birdsong.

Established on the outskirts of Drouin in West Gippsland, Treasured Perennials at The Farm is the vibrant garden of nursery owners Ben and Kerrie Brooker.

Calling all plant lovers and creatives – the Yarra Valley Bonsai Club is holding its annual Bonsai Show Day!

Set on nine acres, Verdicus is retired landscape designer and former Home Beautiful gardening writer, Bruce Honey’s extraordinary home garden located in the Macedon Ranges rural village of Tylden.

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.

Located in Melbourne’s eastern suburb of Ringwood, Peaceful Heart is an extraordinary testament to owner Lee Purgpewwong’s self-taught topiary skills and creativity, where every element in the compact corner quarter-acre block is sculpted, nurtured, and meticulously trimmed.

The 1.6-acre garden at Banool in Melbourne’s Ringwood North has been lovingly restored and updated to show off its grand original trees and stonework. Created around a historically significant stone residence (circa 1936), the property feels like a beautiful country estate. 

Madison Place is a 2-hectare property with sweeping views across a large dam and fountain, located just 15 minutes south of Traralgon, Gippsland’s largest city.

Nestled in the northern foothills of South Gippsland’s Strzelecki Ranges, and just minutes from Morwell National Park, Into the Blue is set on a one-hectare bush block in Jeeralang Junction, amidst towering eucalyptus trees.

SerpenTine is a whimsical, eco-conscious, nearly half-acre garden located in Rowville, in Melbourne’s outer south east. This large garden has a strong focus on sustainability with water tanks and solar panels, fruit and nut trees, a veggie garden, indigenous and native plants, and a pond, as well as water-wise salvias, grasses, a variety of potted succulents, and beautiful roses.

Alvie Lodge is a beautifully laid out 600 square-metre garden, positioned on a block that gently curves across an extended street frontage in Mount Waverley, in Melbourne’s south east. Dominated by two majestic old eucalyptus trees, the garden has been lovingly nurtured by owners Trevor and Kay De Jong for 24 years and is filled with many treasured plants.