Open year-round, Forest Glade Gardens on Mount Macedon showcases a variety of landscaping styles, including English and Japanese-influenced areas.
With no bad time of the year to visit, Stokes Collection Limited and Forest Glade executive director Graham Cumming said that the spring colours at the garden are beginning to emerge.
“Spring is traditionally the second-most popular time of the year at Forest Glade,” Mr Cumming said.
[The trees are] covered with buds that are about to burst – some of them already are – the rhododendrons and the azaleas that really create the masses of colour, along with the thousands of daffodils and bluebells and tulips,” Mr Cumming said.
Mr Cumming said that the garden has an interesting history, with the themed sections emerging as a result of previous owner Cyril Stokes’ work in rehabilitating it after the Ash Wednesday bushfires.
He said that there’s “something for everybody” at Forest Glade, and it is a great place for a scenic picnic.
“I always make a point of coming on Christmas Day, because it’s a real pleasure to be there with young families who … bring a picnic and sit on the lawn and have a picnic with children playing … all-year-round it’s a destination for families.”
Forest Glade is open daily from 10.00am–5.00pm (last entry at 4.30pm) at 816 Mount Macedon Rd, Mount Macedon.
Admission is $15 per person.
Details: www.forestgladegardens.com.au/
Oscar Parry
