Benga and Laurel Lodge Gardens historically preserves the community of Greater Dandenong's significant middle-class heritage in Melbourne.
Period gardens, open for picnics, viewing, and functions.
Also open for photography and filming (enquire within)
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House & Garden Tour with Devonshire Tea/Lunch/Workshops available
1 acre landscape
Exhibition spaces available
Star Magnolia (Magnolia stellata cv.)
Benga (1936) Tudor Revival style, by Frederick Ballantyne. Garden was established and tended by Dorothy Hart before WWII
Benga was established as the first oral history centre in Australia.
St James Anglican Church (1864), one of the oldest buildings in Dandenong, still operating. Its' garden features 100 year old elm trees, and a memorial garden...
Laurel Lodge - where 2 Moreton Bay Fig trees (Ficus macrophylla) stand, planted approximately 1885
"...A red gum forest had previously covered the area where Dandenong was built in the 1970s ...only a few remained as the area developed... the gardens help us understand how people in the past related to their environment."
www.heritagehill.com.au
Opening Hours:
Mon - Fri: 10-4pm
Sun: 12-4pm
Gold coin donation
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