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The Everglades, a great Australian garden

The Everglades, a great Australian garden

Everglades, leaflitter
Everglades, leaflitter

It’s mid-March, the colours are starting to emerge. At any time of year, this garden with its mix of formal and informal features, native and exotic plantings is spectacular.

Everglades, leafblower
Everglades, leafblower
Everglades, Eastern Spinebill
Everglades, Eastern Spinebill

 

Everglades, The Glades
Everglades, The Glades

The architect Sorensen was also a very good horticulturalist who appreciated native trees, which  at the time was unusual.

 

Everglades,Grotto
Everglades,Grotto

The house is a 1930s Art Deco treat. The National trust run it and the volunteers I met were all friendly. Inches away from a Blue Mountains Water Skink my battery died.

Everglades, lounge window
Everglades, lounge window
Everglades, lunch
Everglades, lunch with a view of the Jamison Valley and Mt Solitary

 

 

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