Banalasta’s Visitor Centre garden won 1st place for the best commercial business garden in the local annual open garden competition on Friday 22 Feb.

The judging was awarded by Bendemeer Landcare and Garden Club Competition.

The gardens were open all weekend for visitors to browse and take advantage of the great cafe, skin care and wine store, cellar door and essential oil distillery tours. The gardens will be in full flower for some time, so make a visit to see our flowering labours.

Special thanks to Cindy Ward for all her sensational efforts in managing the garden’s beauty.

Banalasta is in the middle of harvesting the eucalyptus radiata plantation, in readiness for distilling the oil for combining in our skin care products. There is a wonderful clean fresh aroma in the distillery, one walks away from our tours with clear nasal passages and a feeling of wellbeing. We mechanically harvest the eucalyptus plantation when the trees are 50 cm above the ground. Which we will allow to regrow for re-harvesting in another year. Click here to read more…