Mareeba
1 Creeds Road, Murrindindi, Yea 3717
Saturday 4 November, 2017 to
Sunday 5 November, 2017
10.00am - 4.30pm
Entry price $8 (U18 free). Students $5.
Email: info@opengardensvictoria.org.au
Mareeba is a garden of magnificent exotic and Australian trees - many dating back to the late 1940s. They include a towering Sequoia, Dawn Redwood, Mexican Pine, Taxodiums and a range of fine oaks. There are maples, elms, birches, and cedars. Majestic Yellow Box are found in the farmyard, while Mahogany Gums, grand melaleucas and the twisting trunks of tea tree blend well.
More trees are gradually being planted throughout the garden, chosen for their attractiveness, their ability to complement the existing garden plantings and their robustness.
However, the garden is not just about trees. Roses feature throughout the garden beds close to the house; there is a ‘dry’ garden, a woodland garden where native and exotic shrubs lie beneath the sculptured trunks of the melaleucas and grevilleas; and spring bulbs, irises and foxgloves scatter colour for months.
A vegetable garden and orchard are beginning to take shape, including 16 beds of rotating crops and 40 fruit trees.
‘Mareeba’ is both a peaceful and productive garden.
Other points of interest and activities in the local area include:
- Indigenous garden at Y Water Discovery Centre, 2 Hood St, Yea
- Marmalades Café, 20 High St, Yea
Garden notes are written by the garden owners to describe their garden.
Download and print to bring when you visit the garden.
Garden Notes