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Visit The Secret Gardens of the Dandenongs This Week – The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog.

Spring has well and truly sprung, and there’s (arguably) no place more picturesque at this time of year than Victoria’s Dandenong Ranges. SO lush!

This area is home to some of Victoria’s most breathtaking private gardens, and this month, you can access them! Secret Gardens of the Dandenongs is a diverse program of full-day tours (including lunch) in some of the area’s most beautiful private gardens – kicking off this week!

Today we’re revisiting three of our favourite gardens who are participating in the program.

 

An Industrial Wasteland Turned Plant Paradise – The Design Files | Australia's most popular design blog.

The humid subtropical clime of Brisbane makes for some lush gardens and covetable flora.

One such oasis is the plant shop of Andrea Fitzpatrick, a keen green thumb who studied horticulture and then landscape design after her kids finished highschool.

Georgina Reid stopped by Botanick Brisbane for a tour.

A Verdant Garden In Fitzroy North

In 2013, which feels like approximately 200 years ago, we featured the stunning North Fitzroy home of real estate agent Peter Stephens, and metalworker Anna Charlesworth.

Today, we venture back for a closer look at the couple’s beautiful and insanely lush inner city garden, created by landscape designer Amanda Oliver.

Jenny Rose Innes, Serial Renovator And Garden Maker

Jenny Rose-Innes is a ‘serial renovator and garden maker’. She’s been building houses and gardens for over 40 years.

Her latest creation in the Southern Highland town of Bowral is a testament to her many years of experience and vast gardening know-how. It’s full and voluptuous, and only four years old!

A Florist's Lush Inner City Garden

Florist Sean Cook, of Mr Cook, has lived a long love affair with plants!

Only two years ago, Sean’s Sydney garden was a trashed construction site. Transformed by famed landscape designer Richard Unsworth, today we tour the lush oasis!

Heronswood House and Garden Celebrates A Milestone

What a legacy Clive and Penny Blazey have nurtured!

As founders of Diggers Club, Australia’s largest gardening club, they have helped preserve an astounding abundance of rare plants and heirloom seeds over the past 40 years.

In the leadup to a very special Heronswood Harvest Festival next weekend, the pioneers reflect on the ‘fascinating pursuit’ that is gardening.

The Bondi Garden of Landscape Designer William Dangar

Today we bring you a family’s city garden that beautifully complements their priorities and the home it generously encompasses.

This lush, relaxed oasis belongs to landscape designer William Dangar – and it certainly exemplifies his expertise and passion for plant life!

Sunnymeade Garden Open This Weekend

Thanks to our resident green-thumb, Georgina Reid of The Planthunter, we’ve been lucky enough to peek inside some pretty incredible gardens Australia-wide. Last year, we took a tour of Sunnymeade; an expertly landscaped property in Anglesea, belonging to Peter and Simone Shaw of Ocean Road Landscaping, who are in the biz of creating environmentally sensitive residential gardens.

You can see the splendor for yourself, thanks to Open Gardens Victoria, as Peter opens the proverbial door to Sunnymeade this weekend.

A Tour of The Award-Winning Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland

Today we bring you our first garden feature from South Australia – an exceptional, functional ecosystem as well as a public sanctuary!

Taking out the 2017 Sustainability Award for Landscape and Urban Design, the 2.5-hectare Adelaide Botanic Gardens Wetland has been designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean.

The landscape architecture firm’s Director, Damian Schultz, takes us through this wonderful project, through which they’ve sought to highlight the poetry and processes of the natural world.

A Tour of the National Rhododendron Garden in Victoria

Today we tour the National Rhododendron Garden, Park’s Victoria’s 42-hectare public garden in the lush Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne.

Established in 1960, this exceptional conservation project is home to 15,000 rhododendrons, but also thousands of other flowering shrubs and perennials.

We photographed the breathtaking garden earlier this month – you MUST see it in full Springtime bloom!

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