Meet the owner
Discover Robyn’s passion behind Dun Lah Nursery
Dun Lah Nursery’s vision is to have a place of happiness, tranquility and relaxation, for all who enter.
Starting a nursery had been my dream for around 16 years.
I began as a gardener with a cert 4 certificate and set off doing garden design and buying plants for clients, and then someone suggested why don’t you open a nursery.
So I started off small and then that was the demand for the business to grow.
Then I crafted it into a tourist destination and added the coffee shop and lunches areas.
I like helping other gardeners with their gardens to see what they can create.
I’ve made a lot of new friends and our regular customers are now my good friends. And often it’s not about making money, it’s about giving back to the gardeners and the gardener groups.
I feel good when I see other people enjoying what I’ve done out here and bringing their family out to enjoy the nursery and the sense of relaxation.
My vision is to also create a farmyard area, for customers, to interacted with the local animals. Any person, of any ability can visit with the animals. The young, the elderly and the disabled.
Dun Lah Nursery to be the center of the community and hold regular special weekends, that would include garden shows, Country Fair, Music in the garden, using local artists.
Dun Lah Nursery be the place of choice for the local clubs, to display their services, this is to include Vintage Car Clubs, Craft and Garden Clubs.
A Brief History
History of the nursery
Robyn bought the property in 2005, with the dream to build a plant nursery. It was going to be a wholesale advanced tree nursery, this is where we got the name from.
Robyn has a Certificate Four in Horticulture and Garden Design.
Dun Lah means big tree.
The dream has morphed into a total country style nursery experience and we feel the experience will grow and evolve into something amazing.
The nursery has been operating since 2007 from when my partner and my father helped me build the building.
History of the area
The nursery was built on the Old Dubbo Road, which was the original highway from the Sydney colony. Over the years, The road has not changed much, since it was built. The Brownlow Family own the original property, where sheep and wheat farming was carried out. The last owner of this land prior to the subdivision, was the Carter Family, in 1980’s.
Across the road, was the original property of the Jean Emile Serisier, a French born Australian storekeeper and vigneron, who helped found the city of Dubbo.
He purchased the property in 1868 and named it Eumalga. The family lived amongst the 1000 plus acres, 40 of these cultivated with grape vines.
He was the second biggest supplier of wine to the Sydney Colony and won awards for the Red Wine in 1876.
At Dun Lah Nursery, we have built a brick wall at the back of the building, we have placed six of the bricks, from the original house, from 1868, in our wall. See if you can spot them, on your visit.