Top Tik Tok and Instagrammable Gardens this Spring

Blossom season may be over, but there's still some magical gardens to visit this spring that will add a pop of colour to your social feeds. Capture some beautiful spring moments at these gardens while they last.⁠

Alowyn Gardens, Yarra Glen

Alowyn Gardens is a beautiful seven acre award winning display garden in the heart of the Yarra Valley. It features nine distinct garden areas, with seasonal displays and an extensive plant nursery with interesting and unusual plants. There's also a café with great coffee, teas and cakes.

The Wisteria Arch at Alowyn Gardens during October is the Insta/TikTok (whatever you're on) Mecca. Prop up your platform with purple blooms sending off a flattering hue and filling a whole entire tunnel.

Warratina Lavender Farm, Wandin North

Closed during autumn and winter, come spring and summer, this family run five-acre lavender farm is the best place to walk among the rows of flowering lavender and breathe in its fragrance, before it’s harvested.

Treat yourself to some delicious regional fare in their tea room (a late breakfast, lunch, or morning/afternoon tea), all made on the premises. Dogs on leads are welcome.

Cloudehill Gardens, Olinda

Cloudehill is a garden at the top of the Dandenongs in Olinda, and is internationally famous for garden rooms overflowing with flowers and magnificent artwork all year round. Some 25 garden compartments are divided by stone walls and hedges. They include Australia’s finest summer borders, peony gardens, a spring shrub walk, bluebell woodlands, extensive bulb meadows, and a ‘green theatre’ which hosts the Summer twilight concert series.

Deep volcanic soil and moist mild weather allow plants to reach majestic proportions. The weeping Japanese maples at the heart of the garden are of serious significance. Imported from the legendary Yokohama Nursery in Japan they have been growing on the property since 1928.

The Diggers Club operates Cloudehill’s nursery, stocking heirloom seeds and mature trees, as well as many of the plants to be found in the gardens. Seasons Restaurant provides a unique dining experience using fresh local produce.

Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens, Olinda

The Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden (formerly the National Rhododendron Garden) is Victoria's premier cool-climate garden. With breathtaking views over the Yarra Valley, the garden features important collections of rhododendrons, azaleas, camellias and more, in a setting of native and exotic trees.

The garden is home to a staggering 15,000 rhododendrons, 12,000 azaleas, 3,000 camellias and 250,000 daffodils clothed in colour in spring and autumn. The garden houses Australia’s largest collection of Australian and overseas raised hybrids of rhododendrons that cannot be replaced, re-bred or re-imported.

A network of paths crisscrosses the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden and highlights the ever-changing seasonal landscape.

Alfred Nicholas Gardens, Sherbrooke

Situated on the gorgeous Sherbrooke Road in the Dandenong Ranges, the Burnham Beeches Estate is home to the stunning and highly regarded Alfred Nicholas Gardens.

Synonymous with the Dandenong Ranges, The Alfred Nicholas Gardens are known for their picturesque waterfalls, water features and its iconic ornamental lake and boathouse.