Garden tour: Dreamthorpe in Mount Macedon

This week on The Horti-Culturalists we were very lucky to visit a wonderful private 19th century garden at the base of Mount Macedon called Dreamthorpe. There are two very different perennial beds for us to compare, deliciously cool moss walks through a woodland garden, the most magnificent row of Monterey cypress and a rose garden with a famous rose! Many thanks to the generous owners and head gardener for allowing us to wander about and the garden is sometimes open via the Open Gardens scheme and you can check out that here: opengardensvic...
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The plants we mention in this video are:
Euphorbia characias
Cardoon
Centranthus ruber - valerian
Lychnis coronaria
Sisyrinchium striatum
Salvia nemorosa
Stachys
Heracleum villosum
Prunus cerasifera - purple leaf cherry plum
Garrya elliptica
Corylus avellana Contorta
Arum italicum
Iris foetidissima
Melissa officinalis - lemon balm
Aruncus dioicus
Aquilegia vulgaris - columbine
Symphytum orientale - comfrey
Polygonatum hybridum - Solomon's-seal
Rosa 'Sally Holmes'
Cupressus macrocarpa - Monterey cypress
You can find our video about Garrya elliptica here: • Great plants for winte...
You can find our video about Arums here: • Plant profile: eight g...
You can find our video about creating a woodland walk here: • How to create a woodla...
And you can find our video featuring Contorted Filbert here: • Six great plants with ...

[@paulacothren3591]

I am in the southeast US state of North Carolina and The Horti-Culturalists has become one of my favorite channels for superb garden tours and plant collectors' wish lists.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thank you for your compliments we are happy that we are doing well by you. Regards Stephen

[@Salmagundiii]

If you ever have a chance to go to SE AU, go. The gardens will blow your mind! But The Horti-culturalists is doing a good job of sharing some of them with us!

[@mrs.rosylady7176]

This is one of my favourite garden tours ever! The discussion of design was so interesting...particularly loved the garrya hedge with the contorted filbert. These kind of more quirky (which makes them so beautiful and interesting) gardens where the ghosts of previous owners/gardeners is evident...these are my favourite kind of gardens. Thank you!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it! Regards Stephen

[@lkawaiteacher]

i would love to visit this garden. It is beautiful. Thank you for showing this.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

You are most welcome. Regards Stephen

[@rellmercer1569]

Beautiful. Thank you Matthew, Stephen and the owners of Dreamthorpe 😊

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it! Regards Stephen

[@paulinecrispin121]

Just to say many thanks for a bit of colour and something to smile about in these dull days of January in England 😊

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Our pleasure! Regards Stephen

[@stevenrowson4339]

Thank you so much for this wonderful garden tour, a joy to know these jewels still exist.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@kerryjean2223]

What to say except another fabulous garden and thanks for sharing another fabulous video.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

A pleasure. Regards Stephen

[@anne-louise4766]

Hey, this was my sister's old home and garden! there was a Golden Oak they saved~ the only one in Australia second to one in the Royal Botanical Gardens in Melbourne.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Alas the golden oak died some years back. Regards Stephen

[@user-ub2mu6iz5y]

What a beautiful garden! Absolutely gorgeous. Thanks for the tour. 👌 🦘🦘🦘🦘

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Our pleasure! Regards Stephen

[@maryeustace1620]

What a fantastic video, full of wonderful tips and ideas. Thank you. I really enjoyed watching it and will be viewing it again.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it! Regards Stephen

[@lucy6422]

Only recently came across your channel and really enjoying the content. We certainly have some amazing gardens in Australia and Stephen, your knowledge of botanical names of plants is truly impressive!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Why thank you and I'm glad you are enjoying our efforts. Regards Stephen

[@kaystandfield8953]

Fabulous as usual…cheers

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thank you for the thumbs up. Regards Stephen

[@dewdan11dnd46]

🫶🌿Wow! 🍃an astounding calm and beautiful gardens. Thanks for a great tour 💚💞

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Thanks for watching!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Glad you enjoyed it. Regards Stephen

[@John_NY10566]

I look forward to Fridays and you guys! Always a great video. I am surprised you guys have jackets on in the middle of summer

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Us too! Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

Enjoying your tour of Dreamthorpe currently. Lovely garden. I appreciate you both taking us to these beautiful private gardens in Macedon. Thanks very much. I just celebrated my flower border on Instagram which is outside my front fence. It’s a double sided border with roses growing between along our front fence similar to the border in your video. I’ve had a great deal of fun developing it over the last 17 months.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Our pleasure! Regards Stephen

[@carolinescrivener7783]

Amazing garden, so inspiring! We had to cut down our macrocarpa hedge due to lack of pruning from previous owners and become unsafe, but we too now have beautiful white trunks of the trees showing, definitely not as straight as those though!

[@thehorti-culturalists]

They are amazing aren't they. Regards Stephen

[@chateaudisco1436]

New fan here! Just subscribed and very much looking forward to the upcoming binge and future posts…

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Welcome aboard! Regards Stephen

[@user-rf6ek5jz1t]

Gorgeous!Thanks for the astute design insight.That hedge is inspired.Please let us know when they open their gates to the public.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Our pleasure. Hopefully Dreamthorpe will open again soon. Regards Stephen

[@joanne-et6pm]

Oh Stephen it's a beautiful garden love the Garden beds & the avenue form of the tree trucks so unique but stunning How many acres is it on Thanks for sharing Stephen & Matt Jo-Anne 🌸GC

[@thehorti-culturalists]

The property is about 6 acres. Regards Stephen

[@railiedouglas3018]

Sally Holmes is too big for my front border but my Silver Ghost is getting to fairy broad proportions. Thankfully mostly inside our yard & sideways rather than vertically. I’ve let it run unchecked so far though its skirt bows down almost to the ground which makes weeding under it difficult. You need to do an army crawl along the ground.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

one of the down sides of rose growing! Regards Stephen

[@user-mt7ct2gh3n]

Hello Stephan and Matthew . Thank you for your fabulous informative videos. I am in Queenscliff on the Bellarine Peninsula, where I have a medium to large fig tree. This season all the figs have dropped before ripening and even before the birds have discovered them. Some advice please as usually I have a great crop. Thank you , Liz

[@thehorti-culturalists]

I would blame the weather and look forward to next year. Regards Stephen

[@lukebanks9855]

Hello! Do you have any tips on identifying and remembering conifer species? I am always super impressed with your plant knowledge - you must have a hippocampus the size of five cab drivers' (their hippocampuses I mean!). Keep up the great work and thanks again. Luke(Surrey)

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Remembering for me is all about the love of your subject and the thirst for more knowledge. As far as identifying species there are a number of pointers that can help to Genus level if you have some idea what you are looking at. Ie. spruce cones hang down Firs cones stand up, that sort of thing. Regards Stephen

[@michelleadams1210]

Stunning garden Thank you both Is it ever open to the public?😊

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Very occasionally for Open Gardens Victoria but I don't think it has any dates locked in at the moment. Regards Stephen

[@lynnecorboy6438]

I grew up in Yarrawonga, Victoria and we had purple plums as street trees. Flowers were beautiful but the smell of the rotting fruit not so much.

[@thehorti-culturalists]

See Mathew was being unobservant as I said. Regards Stephen

[@akothsewe734]

All i know about Australia is, it's full of aligators taht can swallow me anytime🙈😂😂... I didn't know it has so many beautiful plants. Can i visit you people?🤭🙈 I think i have to learn more about everything over there. I'm a kenyan garden lover living in Germany 😊

[@thehorti-culturalists]

We have crocodiles not Alligators! remember we are a huge country and the crocodiles only live in the tropical north. Regards Stephen

[@TimurDavletshin]

27:00 - I see you showing roses for the first time. I thought you're rose-haters :)

[@thehorti-culturalists]

Not rose haters but love poking fun at the rose obsessed! Regards Stephen

[@MDA-rs4uf]

Any thoughts as to how cold the salvia nemorosa can take?? Here in the southeast US we just got 12 degrees Fahrenheit the past 2 days and I try any salvia I can find...I have "black & bloom" which may be nemorosa and I just don't know it...m

[@thehorti-culturalists]

They should be hardy enough and many forms and hybrids have been bred. Regards Stephen

[@biekken849]

Do you know what large shrubs or bushes grow under a beech tree? (Rotterdam, NL).

[@thehorti-culturalists]

They are all hybrid Rhododendrons. Regards Stephen