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WHILE autumn and spring are traditionally the seasons most favoured for visiting open gardens and parks, a winter stroll in one of the region’s public or private gardens is a delightful way to spend a not-too-chilly afternoon. Here are two suggestions.

@BT Sport Sub Mail:The Drewitt Garden
8 Henderson Hill Road, Silvan.
Open 21 to 28 August, 4 and 11 September and school holidays 22 to 25 September.

See winter gold at its best with spectacular plantings of daffodils and other miniature bulbs as well as rare plants.
Plant and flower sales and an indoor floral display add to the interest of this beautiful hills garden. An added attraction is the model railway whose engines and carriages wind their way through the garden, across bridges and around an English village.
Free tea, coffee and biscuits are offered and part of the admission goes to the Epworth Eastern Hospital Cancer Ward.
Admission $5 or $4 if in a group of 10 or more. Children $2.50, family of two adults and two children $13.
George Tindale Garden
Sherbrooke Road, Sherbrooke, off the Mount Dandenong Tourist Road.
Open 10am to 5pm daily.
The George Tindale Garden, with its unique collection of exotic plants and extensive system of pathways set beneath a canopy of large mountain ash, is a delightful place for a winter stroll.
Winter plantings include camellias, luculia, rhododendrons and hellebores.
The garden was established in 1958 by George Tindale, a research scientist with the Victorian Department of Agriculture who purchased the property and began to develop the existing garden.
With his wife he created the plantings that visitors enjoy in the garden today.
Mrs Tindale bequeathed the garden to the Victorian Conservation Trust in memory of her husband in 1980.
Parks Victoria commenced management of the garden in 1995.