Gardens of the National Trust
of Australia (Victoria)
TO BE LAUNCHED NOVEMBER 2018
The Melbourne garden treasures of Rippon Lea and Como are familiar landmarks to many, much loved for their botanical riches and their idyllic setting for family picnics and garden inspirations. But the Trust owns many other properties that have had historically significant gardens, and in some cases still have these gardens. This story commences with the oldest landscape in the Trust’s care – Endeavour Fern Gully, 17.5 hectares of natural remnant landscape with an array of middle and ground storey plants and lush fern gully. It includes natural habitats and wetlands and provides a sanctuary for animals, birds and rare plant species native to the Mornington Peninsula. On the other end of the scale is Mooramong, a Western District time capsule that exhibits the lifestyle of its wealthy and glamorous property owners from the late 1930s to mid-1970s. Between these two very different Trust properties, there are early settlement gardens of the 1840s, rural villas of the 1850s, the botanic extravaganzas attached to grand mansions built during Melbourne’s 19th century boom years, and rural retreats of the 1920s.
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