Open Gardens Victoria - Llangrigg Park

Regional garden lovers are in for an Easter weekend treat as Open Gardens Victoria opens this charming private garden filled with vibrant autumn colour. Llangrigg Park is a three-acre garden located in the rural township of Tarrawingee, just off the Great Alpine Road and a short 15-minute drive from Wangaratta. Owners Julie and Robert Lamod retired to the property ten years ago. "We were attracted by the Manchurian Pears lining the driveway and other significant trees throughout the property, including elms, golden and claret ashes, which provide lovely autumn colour, and eucalyptus. Apart from the trees and a few roses, there was no garden" says Robert. Julie and Robert have certainly changed that, with an impressive variety of plants now flourishing in numerous perennial beds and garden rooms. Trial and error across the last decade has led to the selection of frost- and drought-resistant plants. At the front of the house, an English-style garden is filled with fragrant pink Violina roses, daylilies, hollyhocks, foxgloves, Watsonia, and asters. A shady Golden Ash is underplanted with azaleas, hellebores, and fuchsias. Pre-existing eucalypts out the back provided the inspiration for a native garden, planted around the trees with a meandering path through the area. A rose and lavender-lined fence encloses the productive vegetable garden and fruit trees, which include orange, plum, nectarine, almond, walnut, fig, and apple trees.