Duneira Estate Autumn Open Garden Days

Name: Duneira Estate Autumn Open Garden Days
Start: 2025-04-05T10:00:00+1100
End: 2025-04-27T16:00:00+1000
Location: Duneira Estate

Sat, 5 Apr, 10am - 4pm AEDT

Duneira Estate

mount macedon, australia

Duneira

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Autumn Open Garden Days 2025

Hidden behind towering eucalypts and dense holly hedges on the southern slopes of Mt Macedon lies one of Australia's most extraordinary heritage estates. For over 150 years Duneira has enchanted visitors from across the globe. With it's imposing Italianate villa set amongst 38 acres of botanically significant gardens, this remarkable hill station continues to delight and inspire visitors.

Duneira Estate is ablaze with sensational Autumn colour, and upon entering the gates visitors encounter one of the best surviving examples of a privately owned avenue in the Southern Hemisphere. The iconic 500m Dutch Elm avenue affords a spectacular backdrop for keen photographers.

Explore the secret garden and discover the 145 yr old weeping Cherry tree, stroll through the orchards to the north of the historic homestead and walk through the labyrinth. Take a break in the courtyard before visiting our resident Llamas.

Autumn is one of the peak seasons in this spectacular heritage listed garden and the grand garden will be open every weekend in April during the Macedon Ranges Autumn Festival.

Gates open at 10am and close at 4pm.

Last entry is at 3.30pm

Dogs on leads are most welcome

Picnics welcome

Tickets for good, not greed Humanitix dedicates 100% of profits from booking fees to charity

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Duneira is an historic House and Garden (circa 1872) on Mount Macedon, Victoria.

Duneira is considered to be "the jewel in the crown" of the small collection of hill stations left on Mount Macedon after the devastation of the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983.

Stuart Rusden Stoneman was the last owner of Duneira and upon his death in 2002, he bequeathed the estate to the care of the S.R. Stoneman Foundation.

The heritage garden comprises 38 acres and contains many trees that are listed on the National Trust Significant Tree Register.

The house was built in 1875, in the Italianate Villa style, and houses Stoneman's substantial Art Collection, his extensive Library, his Persian rugs, grand pianos, and interesting antique furniture.

National Trust 'Statement of Significance' :

" Duneira, laid out by Suetonius Henry Officer in the 1870s, and carefully developed and managed by subsequent long-term owners, is of National Significance."