Mornington Botanical Rose Gardens — Attraction in Melbourne

Beautifully maintained rose gardens here. It's 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. There's 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 there's 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...

A gorgeous Rose Garden! Definitely worth a visit especially during the blooming season Nov to early autumn.

Possibly half the size of the State Rose Garden in Werribee with just as many rose varieties & fragrances to engage the senses .. but do watch out for the busy bees!

Wide paths are easily navigable pushing a pram or wheelchair with a large Rotunda with seating in front as a focal point. The stormy & wet weather that this area has had since spring appears to have wrought some damage to the blooms but there is still plenty to appreciate. Kudos to the volunteers who put in the hard yards to make it blooming beautiful 😍 🤩.Pics below on visit last Sun 7 Jan 24.

Enough seating scattered around to enjoy the garden at leisure. A slightly raised viewing platform over the whole garden is located at the perimeter right corner opposite entry. Plenty of free parking which is a shared space with Mornington Regional Art...

Its absolutely beautiful and peaceful, you can sit and relax and have a good talk with friend or partner anyone and its great. Next time I go there we are going to take a picnic and sit on the ground surrounded with all these rose bushes its amazing. I will edit this and add a pic a bit later I just have to ask my friend for this picture he took that shows how amazing this place is. And its got other things around like a gallery so so could make a day off it and finish it with a walk through the rose garden, you shouldn't miss out on a visit its well worth it. Well done to everyone there that look after then and the sponsors you have a magical well set out beautiful garden here im a regular visitor now as I play table tennis just mucking around not comp and its just a little stroll to sit at the garden for an hour...