The Reflecting Pond · Stonewalls Musk
The Fire Garden · Stonewalls Musk
The Kitchen Garden Path · Stonewalls Musk
Garden Sculpture · Stonewalls Musk
Kitchen Garden · Stonewalls Musk

25 Acres · Designed by Tandem Studio

The
Gardens

Photography — Amber Gardener

The Gardens

25 acres.
5 years.
Still growing.

The gardens at Stonewalls Musk are among the most ambitious private gardens in Victoria — a 25-acre landscape conceived, planted and tended over five years by Andrew O'Brien, designed in collaboration with award-winning architects Tandem Studio.

Stone walls frame rooms of plants. A reflecting pond mirrors the sky. Avenues of deciduous trees turn gold in autumn, bare in winter. A walled kitchen garden grows vegetables, herbs and cut flowers. A fire garden sits at the edge of the eucalypt forest. Each area has its own character, its own season, its own reason to return.

25
Acres of private botanic gardens
5+
Years in the making
4
Distinct seasonal experiences
The Reflecting Pond — Stonewalls Musk
01

The Formal Garden

The Reflecting
Pond

The centrepiece of the formal garden — a long still pond flanked by espaliered ornamental pears and underplanted with low hedging and silver-leafed perennials. At certain times of day it holds the entire sky.

The Kitchen Garden — Stonewalls Musk
02

The Walled Garden

The Kitchen
Garden

A walled potager growing vegetables, herbs, cut flowers and fruit trees. Gravel paths between clipped box hedging. Stone walls holding heat into the evening. The kind of garden that makes you want to grow things.

The Fire Garden — Stonewalls Musk
03

The Forest Edge

The Fire
Garden

At the edge of the eucalypt forest — a stone-walled garden room with a fire bowl, a timber bench and two chairs. String lights between the trees. The place where evenings happen at Stonewalls.

Garden Sculpture — Stonewalls Musk
04

The Sculpture Garden

Art in
the landscape

Andrew's sculptural objects are placed throughout the gardens — a rusted farm plough on a post, an anchor in the pond, pieces collected and positioned with the same care as artworks in the gallery. The garden itself is a work of art.

Open Garden Events

The gates
are open.

Stonewalls Musk hosts open garden events throughout the year — guided walks through the estate led by Andrew, with the gardens at their seasonal peak. A rare chance to visit a private estate that doesn't often welcome the public.

"One of Victoria's most extraordinary private gardens, opened generously for those who care to look."

01 / 07At the Pond

Gathered by
still water.

The reflecting pond draws people in without asking. A rusted anchor at one end, a lantern at the other. Conversations slow down here. Time does too.

Photography — Amber Gardener

02 / 07The Tour

Andrew
in his element.

Open garden days are led by Andrew himself — the person who planted every tree, chose every stone, decided where the paths would go. It shows in the way he talks about it.

Photography — Amber Gardener

03 / 07Open Garden

A rare
opening.

The estate doesn't often welcome the public. Open garden days are the exception — and those who come find a landscape that takes a proper walk to understand.

Photography — Amber Gardener

04 / 07The Kitchen Garden

Worth
stopping for.

The walled kitchen garden stops people in their tracks. Box hedging, espalier, food plants and cut flowers all together — the way a working garden should look.

Photography — Amber Gardener

05 / 07The Fire Garden

Where the
tour ends.

The walk finishes here, at the fire bowl on the forest edge — where Andrew answers questions and the group lingers a little longer than planned.

Photography — Amber Gardener

06 / 07The Herbal Garden

Georgie
among the foxgloves.

Co-founder Georgie Corke tends the herbal beds herself — foxgloves towering behind her, the same garden that supplies the Wellness Retreat's treatments.

Photography — Amber Gardener

07 / 07The Kitchen Garden

Poppies,
artichokes, quiet.

Georgie among the poppies and artichokes in the walled kitchen garden — the largest of its kind in Victoria, and still her favourite place on the estate.

Photography — Amber Gardener

Plan Your Visit

Come and
wander

Gallery & Garden

Open to
visitors

The gallery and gardens are open to day visitors Thursday to Monday. No booking required — arrive, park, wander. The gallery is inside the estate and the gardens are yours to explore at your own pace.

HoursThursday – Monday, 10am – 4pm
AdmissionFree entry to gardens and gallery
Address605 Daylesford Trentham Road, Musk VIC 3461
Phone0423 590 598
From5 minutes from Daylesford · 90 minutes from Melbourne

Open Garden Events

Guided tours
with Andrew

Several times a year, Stonewalls opens for guided garden walks led by Andrew O'Brien — exploring the formal gardens, the kitchen garden, the sculpture garden and the forest edge. Events are announced on Instagram.

FormatGuided walk led by Andrew O'Brien
DurationApproximately 2 hours
TicketsLimited numbers — announced on Instagram
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