New South Wales · Attraction
Mayfield Garden
A great cool climate garden
schedule 1 min read / Updated Jun 2026
Mayfield Garden near Oberon is one of the largest privately owned cool climate gardens in the Southern Hemisphere, covering 65 hectares within a 5,000-acre working farm on the NSW Central Tablelands. Open almost every day of the year, it draws visitors through four distinct seasons with ever-changing colour, sculptural features, a water garden, a maze and a cafe serving locally sourced food.
The garden was developed from the mid-1990s and opened to the public in 2014. Its design draws on European traditions while using plants suited to the cool, high-altitude climate of the Oberon plateau. Highlights include the Valley of the Five Ponds, a 2.5-hectare Water Garden, a large maple collection, and a 16.5-metre obelisk that anchors the central axis of the formal garden rooms.
Seasonal festivals celebrate each quarter of the year with access to normally private areas of the family estate. Winter brings a toboggan run, summer offers rowboat hire on the ponds, and the autumn maple display draws particularly large crowds. A cool climate nursery allows visitors to take plants home, and the cafe offers a paddock-to-plate menu.
Mayfield sits about 11 kilometres from Oberon, making it a natural addition to a Central Tablelands road trip from Sydney or a day excursion from Bathurst, which lies roughly 65 kilometres to the north.
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