Open Gardens Victoria - Ngamudji

From Sat 6 September 2025
Until Sun 7 September 2025

36 Arundel Crescent
Surrey Hills VIC 3127

Cost
$10
$6 Student (with ID)
Free - Under 18 or students who've purchased an annual Student Pass (with ID)
09/06/2025 10:00 am 09/07/2025 4:30 pm Open Gardens Victoria - Ngamudji Open Gardens Victoria marks the launch of its 2025 spring season with a weekend double feature in the leafy eastern suburb of Surrey Hills, showcasing 2 exceptional gardens. Ngamudji and Creekside are located just a short stroll apart, each brimming with native plantings, sustainability features and a deep connection to place.Ngamudji is designed and built by award-winning landscape designer Phillip Johnson and planted out by owner David Lightfoot. With its landscaped meandering creek, wildlife-attracting plantings and a rooftop garden featuring over 100 low-growing, sun-loving native species, Ndamudji is a striking native garden wrapped around a sustainably designed home.The garden emphasises sustainable design principles and water conservation. Highlights include a cascading waterfall feeding into a pond (home to native fish and Eastern Banjo frogs), pollinator and bird-friendly planting, a central copse of Callistemon, a propagation shade house, and an integrated rainwater-fed dripper system, all demonstrating how beauty and function can flourish together.The name, Ngamudj, is a Woiwurrung word of the Wurundjeri people, meaning both ‘white man’ and ‘bright colours at sunset’, a fitting tribute to the garden’s vivid plant palette.The rooftop garden will be open to visitors at intervals throughout the weekend. 36 Arundel Crescent , Surrey Hills VIC 3127 City of Boroondara [email protected] Australia/Melbourne public

Event details

Open Gardens Victoria marks the launch of its 2025 spring season with a weekend double feature in the leafy eastern suburb of Surrey Hills, showcasing 2 exceptional gardens. Ngamudji and Creekside are located just a short stroll apart, each brimming with native plantings, sustainability features and a deep connection to place.

Ngamudji is designed and built by award-winning landscape designer Phillip Johnson and planted out by owner David Lightfoot. With its landscaped meandering creek, wildlife-attracting plantings and a rooftop garden featuring over 100 low-growing, sun-loving native species, Ndamudji is a striking native garden wrapped around a sustainably designed home.

The garden emphasises sustainable design principles and water conservation. Highlights include a cascading waterfall feeding into a pond (home to native fish and Eastern Banjo frogs), pollinator and bird-friendly planting, a central copse of Callistemon, a propagation shade house, and an integrated rainwater-fed dripper system, all demonstrating how beauty and function can flourish together.

The name, Ngamudj, is a Woiwurrung word of the Wurundjeri people, meaning both ‘white man’ and ‘bright colours at sunset’, a fitting tribute to the garden’s vivid plant palette.

The rooftop garden will be open to visitors at intervals throughout the weekend.

This is a community-run event and not organised or endorsed by Council. No responsibility is taken for incorrect information, changes or cancellations.