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The Gardens at Lambley

The Dry Garden

The dry garden is about 20 metres by 50 metres with a 2 metre wide gravel path meandering through it. The only trees planted in this area are olives which once established need little water although it pays to give them a good start in life, watering and feeding them well for the first couple of years. We take the olives up to about 2.5 metres so that the eye can see the whole garden beneath them. Olives are deep rooted and allow us to grow plants right up to their trunks.

The Cut Flower and Vegetable Garden

The flower and vegetable garden at Lambley is quite large by modern standards. The produce is used to feed the whole four generations of the family. Many varieties of vegetables are trialled to see which grow the best in the central highlands of Victoria where the last frost occurs in mid November and the autumn comes in quickly with April bringing the first frosts. Melons, pumpkins, okra, capsicums and egg plants all have to be short season varieties, i.e. they have to grow, fruit and ripen during the four hottest months or we don’t get a crop. Many old varieties don’t produce ripe crops, more...