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George Tindale Memorial Gardens

Other Name Pallants Hill Location 33 Sherbrooke Road, SHERBROOKE VIC 3789 - Property No 58689 File Number 602 Level Included in Heritage Overlay

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Statement of Significance

What is Significant?
George Tindale Memorial Garden (Pallants Hill)at Sherbrooke Road and Braeside Avenue, Sherbrooke.

How is it Significant?
George Tindale Memorial Garden (Pallants Hill), Sherbrooke Road and Braeside Avenue, Sherbrooke is of State scientific (horticultural) local social, historic and aesthetic significance.

Why is it Significant?
Of state scientific (horticultural) significance as a 'plantsman's' garden developed to collect, study, record and display choice and rare cultivated ornamental plants suited to the Dandenong Ranges. The collection is of exceptional diversity.
RNE criterion B.1, A.3

Of local historic and social significance as one of the original private residential sites settled in the Dandenong Ranges following land release in the 1890s. The garden also reflects the historic and continuing horticultural pursuits (both ornamental and agricultural) undertaken throughout the Dandenong Ranges since first colonial settlement.
RNE criterion A.4

Of local significance aesthetically as an organic garden designed with inter-weaving paths and colourful, carefully designed garden beds. RNE criterion E.1.