Grounds
Visitors to Glenormiston cannot but be taken with the setting of the campus and its magnificent grounds.
The main entrance to the campus is lined with century old elms - a tunnel of green shade in spring and summer and a golden drift in autumn. Dry-stone walls line the low drive, leading on past bluestone farm buildings up to the main teaching buildings and the heritage-listed mansion.
The bluestone and white stuccoed mansion (circa 1855) stands in a park of native and exotic plantings, featuring mature specimen trees such as an original gum, a prussian fir, date palms and aging giant bunya bunya pines. The older garden beds are filled with plantings tempered by time, and are stocked with hardy survivors of many summers.
From the rose-garden above the oval, a walk leads past the tennis courts and back to the residential accommodation and over to the swimming pool on the western side of the campus.
There are other places with excellent conference facilities, equipment, amenities and accommodation, but the Glenormiston grounds are something else. They are a reason in themselves for those organisations, community groups and individuals who regularly hire the campus facilities for their ball, their meetings and dinners, their wedding or family reunion.
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