A love for gardening

Cumberland View is proudly situated on 34 acres, making our village one of Melbourne’s most iconic retirement living communities in the south-east. One of the unique features of our village is the green open space and abundance of native flora for residents to enjoy.

For village resident, Wendy Mein, making the move to Cumberland View was strongly influenced by the gardens. ‘I chose to move into the village because of the 34 acres of beautiful parkland,’ she says. ‘For me having a vegetable garden is a great asset, not only for the year-round fresh produce but there is great friendship and camaraderie amongst the plot holders, who have regular weeding, planting, propagating and watering to do.’

With an active and growing gardening group, the conservatory in our village provides a relaxed space for avid gardeners to maintain plants and their very own vegetable plots too.

Wendy shares that having the vegetable garden often means that residents are social amongst each other and often share produce too. ‘I am very involved with the Vegetable Garden Group,’ she says. ‘We've raised funds from the sale of rhubarb and other vegetables over the past 3 years which has allowed us to build more than a dozen new vegetable garden beds.’ Wendy tells us that some of the produce from her vegetable garden includes snow peas, chard, silver beet, butterbeans, zucchini, pumpkin, tomatoes, potatoes, rhubarb and raspberries.

‘The conservatory is a calm peaceful haven filled with many beautiful plants, especially a wonderful collection of orchids looked after by Thelma, our orchid guru,’ Wendy says.

The conservatory is open for all residents and their families and friends who visit the village.