Mornington Botanical Rose Gardens - Mornington (VIC)

5 /5 sventek: Beautifully maintained rose gardens here. Its quite a large sized garden with an abundance of roses when visited in March 2025 on a Saturday. Free entry with free parking just outside. Theres a donation box at the entrance (though you can donate online as well instead). Large rotunda in the centre provides shelter from the rain, ramped entrance available. No toilets, but you could walk to the playground area about 400m south and theres toilets there. Not a lot of mature trees to allow picnic shading but some spots available. The site also mentions a "viewing platform" which we missed, unless they just meant the front deck of one of the housing buildings atop some stairs. The ground/grass feels like it would be super muddy and sticky if it got some rain prior. Overall the rose garden delivers your expectation to view large variety of roses should you visit during season, typically around Oct - April. Thank you to the volunteers who made this possible, my toddler and I enjoyed our visit ❤️

5 /5 Sharon Olson: Whats not to love?! Beautiful roses in bloom that seem to be done by a lot of volunteer work. You will find every color of rose here. No price for admission. The reviews should be all five stars!!!! (I would love to see the people who rate this as anything less than 5 stars build and grow roses themselves). This is a quiet, beautiful place that people can enjoy for free.

5 /5 Harry Hussein: Lovely gardens with some great varieties of plants. Very colourful roses nearly time for them to stop getting this late into the season. The grounds are lovely.

5 /5 Nanling Liu: We visited this rose garden on a Saturday afternoon, the weather was perfect and the garden looked splendid. There were a wide variety of roses blooming in the garden, I loved the colour combination of different roses, such as baby pink, golden yellow, and vibrant red. The garden was well-maintained, we enjoyed the peaceful atmosphere and it would be a perfect place for picnic too.