Lost Gardens of Sydney
By (Author) Colleen Morris
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
28th July 2008
Australia
General
Non Fiction
Local history
712.6099441
Paperback
160
Sydney's vast sea of roofs belies its rich legacy of gardens and gardening. In every direction from the city, large estates and gardens have been subdivided and lost to our ever-increasing need for real estate. Lost Gardens explores Sydney's rich and diverse gardening heritage. It traces the rise and fall of a number of Sydney gardens and garden styles, from the native bush and significant early colonial gardens, to nurseries and the gardens of the rising middle class, to the small domestic gardens of the inter-war years, to corporate roof-top gardens and threatened gardens of today.