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About St Vincents Gardens
St Vincent Gardens is of national significance for its English style design around surrounding crescents. Designed by Clement Hodgkinson in 1868 the garden reflects the Georgian era. Tree plantings are arranged in symmetrical patterns with themed plantings throughout the gardens timescale, four of which are registered with the National Trust.
A lawn bowls club was established in 1873, a tennis club in 1883 on the site of an earlier croquet lawn. Two memorials rest within the gardens, a Returned Services League (RSL) memorial built in 1923-1925 and a memorial rest house in the memory of Dr Frederick Miller Johnson killed in WW1, sits to the north of the bowling green built in 1916.
In 1997 council endorsed a St Vincent Gardens Conservation Analysis and Management Strategy(CAMS). This will provide a framework in which to conserve the cultural significance and maintain the integrity of the original design of the gardens in accordance with Heritage Victoria.
Works that have been completed thus far as identified in the (CAMS) include a vegetation survey, mulched garden beds around significant trees, reinstatement of significant trees lost over the years and herbaceous plant beds propagated from heritage stock. Original entry treatments at all entrances, composed of bluestone walls and recycled timber posts. The northern and southern boarder beds have been planted with heritage plant stock in accordance with designs prepared by Jill Orr-Young.
More significant restoration includes the reconstruction of the western half of the path network following heritage alignments and orange-coloured, granitic sand surface and steel edging. This included the installation of an on-site stormwater dissipation system, which now uses surface runoff to help irrigate. Another heritage plant feature is the Lonicera Sp perimeter hedge, in which the plants have been sourced from Cruden Farm planted and owned by Dame Elizabeth Murdoch.
Facilities checklist
Online Map Reference 49
Melways Reference 57F3
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