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Historic Greenhouse and estate productive garden visit: Alton, a Victorian Mt Macedon Hill Station.

This week on the Horti-Culturalists we were very fortunate to re-visit historic Alton house, a 19th century Hill Station on Mt Macedon, to take a look a look at the 1920's heritage registered greenhouse and the Victorian productive garden. The mists rolled in as we explored the sensational and enormous greenhouse but we were still able to stumble outside and find the overgrown gooseberries, a wall of figs and even a vineyard in the somewhat shabby chic productive garden! Stephen explains just how a productive garden like this was maintained and run in its glory days with a dedicated year round staff making sure everything was in bloom and ripe for the summer season when houses like this came into their own. Many thanks to the owner of the wonderful Alton house who allowed us to film in this otherwise private property - we hope you enjoy the visit as much as we did! You can see the other film we made in this wonderful estate here:    • Historic garden visit: Alton, a 19th centu...