Spread over 25 hectares, the gardens will heighten your senses with a wonderful display of sight, colour and frangrance.

Along the eight kilometres of walking paths are more than six thousand trees, one million ground covers and six hundred thousand shrubs.  A flora display featuring a variety of plants and statuary, all of a standard that you won't see elsewhere in Australia.

From the main entrance, the visitor will enter through many feature gardens full of breathtaking surprises!

Featuring over 8000 spectacular roses full of fragrance and beauty, the Rose Garden is half a hectare in size and shaped as a corkscrew - highlighting an association with our vineyards as well as offering maximum views of the stunning flora with walking paths throughout the rose beds.

Enclosing the Rose Garden are four pergola’s, ideal for relaxing in full view of the roses, and a variety of climbers which, in time, will create the feeling of total immersion within flowers and fragrance.

In full flower from October until June each year, the predominant varieties within the Rose Garden include: Double Delight, Charles De-Gaule, Freesia, Fragrance, Marlena, Bonica and Blue Moon roses. There are over 120 different varieties of roses with a total of 33,000 throughout the property.

During the mid-winter months, annual flowers and spring bulbs are planted under the roses to create a colourful display.

Featuring an awe-inspiring statue of Saint Francis of Assisi (Patron Saint of Birds and Animals) the Italian Grotto is lined with red Bougainvilleas, pink Wisteria and cascading Geraniums and Pelargoniums.  A beautiful fragrant garden, enjoy the aroma as you stroll along the path past a variety of fragrant shrubs, citrus trees, lavender and olives.

Azaleas also feature on the banks of the Italian Grotto surrounding a gentle stream which meanders through the garden beside a rustic gazebo providing stunning garden views.

Spanning over 1 hectare, the Japanese garden features a two-story traditional pagoda surrounded by natural Australian granite.  Enjoy the tranquil meandering streams and ponds full of Lotus and spectacular Water Lillies.

A precisely trimmed and manicured garden with the largest lawn of ‘Zoysia Grass’ in Australia, the Japanese garden has a superb late winter and spring display of Azaleas, Camellias and Magnolias.

Overlooking this magnificent oriental display, relax and enjoy the tranquil setting from the balcony of The Garden Terrace restaurant.

Enter the Lakes Walk to the sound of a small waterfall and meandering streams whilst taking in the spectacular views of mass plantings of seasonal annuals, spring flowering trees and shrubs.

With beautiful flora and the spectacular Hunter Valley Gardens Chapel in the background, enjoy a gentle walk by the picturesque lake's edge, taking in the bustling bird life of the lake's island.   

Designed to reflect the traditional English Parterre style of garden, the Border Garden is surrounded by pleached hedges of Ficus hillii (Hills fig), an Australian native, with Buxus sempervirens creating the shapes throughout the garden.

Featuring Petunias and Marigolds in summer and Violas and Pansies during winter, the Border garden features and array of topiary and prominent evergreen trees.

Spanning over half a hectare, this garden incorporates a number of hand-carved Indian marble water features and statues representing the four seasons – truly a signature garden for the property.

Featuring timeless old fashioned nursery rhyme characters, the Story Book Garden is a delight for all ages taking the visitor along on a journey through childhood dreams, memories and fantasies.  Just entering the storybook garden is an experience in itself - through a giant storybook that being read by topiary Giraffes!

‘Larger-than-life’ nursery rhyme characters and spectacular murals greet you at every corner offering excellent photo opportunities!  Join Humpty Dumpty and all his kings horses and all his kings men, Jack & Jill as they tumble down the hill, Alice in Wonderland at the Mad Hatters Tea Party, Little Bo Peep and much much more!

… and, of course, they all lived happily ever after!

Linking the Border garden to the Storybook garden, this European-style walk lined with evergreen trees ‘Fraxinus Griffithi’ (Evergreen Ash) and lush lawns. 

The Avenue features a range of bronzed statuary with more to be placed in the months to come.

Bordering the western perimeter of the Gardens is a stroll-through Orchard with more than ninety different varieties of fruit trees, including citrus, stone and pip fruit trees.

A wonderful site - the ‘Olive Grove’ consists of 600 olive trees backed by the stunning Brokenback Ranges.

Crossing green Chinese slate, visitors enter the Chinese Moongate garden through a traditional Moongate guarded by two bronzed Temple Dogs, warding off evil spirits.

Incorporating traditional elements of rugged rocks, raked decorative gravels and slow growing grass, the Chinese Moongate garden features Camellia sasquanta, Gingko trees, Bamboo and many edible fruits including Cumquats, Morus Mulberries and Persimmons.

And, of course, the garden would not be complete without the happy Buddha!

Entering through180 year old antique Indian Elephant Gates and bronze elephants, wind your way through a Syzygium australe (Lillypilly) hedge to discover a superb mosaic of ground covering plants and pebbles.

A contemporary design featuring red and gold sedums and mondo grass, the Indian Mosaic Tea garden is framed by plantations of Camellia chinensis (Green tea shrubs). 

Relax in the Indian Tea House finely crafted with traditional Indian décor – the perfect shady spot to enjoy the topiary elephants and lake that are close by.

The largest of its type in Australia, the Formal garden is one and a half hectares in size and was influenced by the formal garden designs of France and England. 

Bordered by by Pyrus ussarnissus, a pear tree with beautiful white flowers and dramatic bronze foliage in autumn, the Formal garden features a variety of topiary and finely manicured lawns of Fescue mustang II.  Specimen trees of evergreen Magnolia grandiflora (Little Gem) are also featured in the gardens along with 300 bushes of Rosa chameleon roses.

Make a wish at the “Wishing Fountain” within the Formal Garden, from which all proceeds are dedicated to Lifeline Australia until 2005.

Features a majestic 10-metre waterfall and garden beds ablaze with the colour of magnificent annual displays.  Enjoy the spectacular views of the entire property from the pergola at the top of the waterfall and the blaze of colour from the surrounding gardens.

Designed for year round colour, the Sunken garden features an array of seasonal annuals and spring flowering trees including Magnolias, Camellias, Crabapples and flowering peaches.

Framing the walkways are hundreds of roses, including Rosa simply magic, Rosa iceberg, Rosa chameleon and Rosa carefree wonder.  Vast borders of Rosemary herbs can also be found in the Sunken Garden along with Acer palmatum and Magnolia soulangiana trees.

Each signifying one year that construction of the Gardens took, visit the topiary Brokenback Brumbies galloping from the Brokenback Ranges to the watering holes of Hunter Valley Gardens. 

Grown from Luma apiculata (Myrtle), a small tree originating from Chile, each Brumby consists of 4 trees trained over an eight year period on a metal frame.