About the garden
Heronswood is the home of The Diggers Club. The garden is a living catalogue of plants found in our magazines and books.
We have the largest collection of fruit and vegetables for gardeners and our garden is the first in Australia to be certified organic. Heronswood has five vegetable gardens and it is within these gardens we have rescued the best heirloom vegetables. The garden has extensive plantings of flowers, including perennial borders, dry climate, cottage, annual gardens.
Heronswood is one of the four Victorian gardens listed in the Oxford Companion to Gardens alongside the Melbourne Botanical Gardens, Mawallock and Ripponlea which is testament to its standing in the horticultural community.
Vegetable Parterre
Inspired by the French potager gardens using heirloom vegetables in decorative patterns. Three harvests and plantings each year in winter, spring and summer.
Mini Plot
Shows how to grow a years supply of vegetables for two in just 20m2 using Diggers best yielding varieties, in a matrix planting system instead of rows.
Modern herb garden
Modern and culinary herbs are featured in this romantic garden. Plants have been chosen for their medicinal value and well as their fragrant foliage or flowers.
Evergreen borders
Plants with texture, foliage and form are used to provide interest all year round- even in winter. These permanent plantings are the backbones of the garden.
Diggers Garden and Environment Trust
Clive and Penny Blazey, founders of the Diggers Club, gifted ownership of their highly successful garden company along with family-owned properties Heronswood and St Erth to the Diggers Garden and Environment Trust in 2011.
“We established the Diggers Garden and Environment Trust to ensure that the work we’ve done over more than 30 years in preserving historic gardens and houses as well as the best garden traditions through education will continue forever,” said Clive.
The Trust strives to convserve historic gardens, buildings and cultural heritage and to protect heirloom seeds.
Contact Heronswood
105 Latrobe Parade, Dromana, Victoria, 3936
Open 7 days a week, 9:00am to 5:00pm*
Gardens, nursery and shop: 03 5984 7321
Restaurant: 03 5984 7318 (open from 10:00am)
* Anzac Day - Please note the Gardens and Garden Shop will be open from 1pm on Anzac Day, the Fork to Fork Restaurant will open as usual.
* Closed 24-26 December and Good Friday.
Entry to wander through Heronswood Gardens and Restaurant is free for Diggers members and children under 16, and $10 for visitors. There is no entry charge to visit the shop.
Further information
Special Events & Festivals
Restaurant
Tour booking information
Gardens
Garden Shop
Workshops
Workshops at Heronswood
The Art of Espalier
Improving your soils and composting
Winter Fruit Tree Care
Heirloom Seed Sowing for Spring
