When visiting over a weekend of staying for a week or so, take the time to wander through the garden at Killala Post. At any time of the year there is something different at it’s best.
Our 4 acres of garden surrounds consist of an established mix of European plantings including fruit and nut trees, roses, hydrangeas, camellias and magnolias as well as many natives that attract the wildlife. You may see wallabies, koalas and echidnas and a multitude of bird species including king parrots, blue fairy wrens, honey eaters, rosellas, bower birds. We’ve even spotted the odd owl and hear them most nights. The garden is managed according to organic principles and no herbicides or poisons are used.
Tree Species
There are a lot of species of trees in the garden. We will list here as we work them all out.
Fruit and Nut trees
- Chestnut
- Walnut
- Loquat
- Ornamental cherry
- Hazelnut
- 13 Apple trees (cox’s orange pippin, snow apple, golden delicious, and older varieties)
- Plum (blood plum, yellow plum, sloe plum, d’argent plum)
- 4 Pear trees (buerre bosc, nashi type, bartlett)
- Lemon
- Grapefruit
- Tamarillo
- Apricot
- Morello Cherries
- Davidson Plum
- Feijoa
- Strawberry Guava
Berries
- Blueberries
- Strawberries
- Raspberries
- Logan berries
- Red Currants
- Cape Gooseberries
Flowering Shrubs and Trees
- Japanese Maple
- Camellias
- Rhododendrons
- Flowering Cherries
- Linden Trees
- Black Alder
- Purple Magnolia
- Azaleas
- Flowering Prunus
- Crab Apple
- Magnolias
- Daphne
Native
- Boronia
- Gums
- Banksia
- Bottle Brush
- Wattle
- Otway Daisy
- Blackwood
- Tree Ferns
- Local variety ferns
