Lennox Gardens 

Originally part of the (now flooded) Royal Canberra Golf course, the Lennox Gardens are a well loved retreat in Yarralumla.

The construction of Lake Burley Griffin saw quantities of land (as well as the original Royal Canberra Golf Course) being sacrificed. The Lennox Gardens stand on the remaining part of the golf course that was not submerged.

The park has a number of memorials and monuments presented to Canberra by Japan, a monument to Australians in the Spanish civil war, a monument commemorating the Jewish National fund and a Wisteria pergola dedicated to the Nara - Canberra sister city relationship. Lennox Gardens also has the unusual feature of having a park within a park. The Canberra Nara Park also calls Lennox Gardens home.

Facilities

• BBQs, tables, a drinking fountain

Further Information

• Trees include 24 cherry blossom trees, four Crepe Myrtles, ten Japanese Maples, and one Japanese Red Pine. Shrubs include Japanese Lily of the Valley, one of Japan's earliest spring bloomers which is still the commonest shrub grown in the city of Nara (because deer will not nibble its leaves). Groundcovers used are Japanese Shore Juniper, Star Jasmine, and Dwarf Mondo Grass. Water plants planted within and adjacent to the dry watercourse are Japanese Water Iris. The climber species planted to grow over the Wisteria Pergola is Violacea Plena, the only Wisteria species with double flowers and which is said to have originated from the Kasuga Shrine in Nara.