About Us

Cedar Park is a 27 hectare (67 acre) property a 10 minute drive from the F3 Freeway off-ramps at Tuggerah, on the Central Coast of New South Wales, halfway  between Sydney and Newcastle, on the Australian eastern seaboard. The property is found in the picturesque Yarramalong Valley, the word “Yarramalong” meaning “place of cedar”.

Previously a dairy, a protea farm and a horse training and spelling property, Cedar Park was established thirty years ago with a large garden containing Chinese Elm, Maple, Golden Weeping Cypress, Australian Red Cedar, Liquidambar, Silk Tree, Tuckeroo, Pin Oak, Azalea, Camellia, Clivea, and May Bush; a prize winning combination in the Council garden competition.
         
After our purchase of Cedar Park in 1999 several proposals were investigated, including clumping bamboo. The concept of a lavender farm grew from visits to two such farms south of Sydney in the course of a nine day cycling holiday in 2003.

After research and reading, Cedar Park Lavender was established in 2004 with an initial planting of 5500 Lavandula x Intermedia seedlings of Super and Grosso. The property also supports the hydroponic production of lettuce and herbs and a herd of beef cattle. Over one hundred roses, selected for their fragrance, have also been planted.
 
The first harvest of lavender in the summer of 2005/2006 was all hung to dry. The majority of this harvest was stripped and sold in sachets or as dried lavender. The second harvest, in the summer of 2006/2007, produced 20 litres of essential oil and a similar quantity of stripped lavender as the previous year.

Intermedia lavender flowers annually over summer when the volatile oil from the  flowers perfumes the atmosphere and is seen by passers by as a haze above the plants. A compromise has to be struck between our customers wanting to enjoy the sight of the lavender in flower and our need to harvest over summer for oil and dried flower production. The solution is still evolving.

From an initial concept of oil distillation and stripped lavender flower production we are now engaged in product manufacture, with our own oil and Cedar Park Premium label. We have also opened our gate to visitors and provide farm tours including a demonstration of the oil distillation process.