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Autumn has never looked so good as we visit one of Australia’s best cool-climate gardens, the Everglades in Leura and it has just turned 70.
Everglades began its amazing transformation in 1932 when it was bought by wealthy Belgian-born industrialist, Henri Van de Velde as a weekender. He commissioned Danish-born landscape designer, Paul Sorensen, in 1933 to create his dream garden. It was very advanced for its time with exotic plants and trees being imported from Europe, America and Asia. It was a huge job and depression labourers were used to do it. They moved thousands of tons of earth and rock and built kilometres of curved stone walls. Those limestone walls remain a striking feature of the garden today.
http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/properties/everglades/ http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/everglades-appeal.asp
M&P Assistant Curator, Gabriella Holok, has conducted research into the original fittings, garden furniture and ornamentation at Everglades Gardens, in Leura. A series of photographs in the Trust collection taken during the 1930s, including many by renowned photographer Harold Cazneaux, was the basis for this research.The images provide an invaluable insight into the luxurious Art Deco holiday house and layout of the garden, revealing tiny details such as light fittings, furnishings and hand-crafted garden furniture that have
long since been replaced. A final report will assist in reproducing the missing elements and restoring this important Art Deco property to its former glory.
Stock: In Stock
Price: $9.95
Everglades at Leura by Angela le Sueur, 2007
The fourth book in the National Trust House Series showcases Everglades House and Gardens which is located at the edge of the Blue Mountains World Heritage site. The art deco house owned by Henri Van de Velde and the spectacular gardens designed in collaboration with Paul Sorensen are extensively illustrated throughout the book with over 40 colour and black & white photographs, including recent photographs by Christopher Shain, historic photographs by Harold Cazneaux and original garden plans by Paul Sorensen. This project is proudly supported by AusIndustry, an Australian Government Initiative.
Photographs by Christopher Shain
EVERGLADES – AUTUMN LEAVES
There are 3 places you’ll want to go:
Hellebore Walk
Lower Drive
The Glades
Just inside the entry, you’ll start at the Hellebore Walk. As you walk down it, you’ll get the best shots of the Autumn Gardens below – Lower Drive & The Glades.
THE HELLEBORE WALK
This is where the Autumn transformation begins. You’ve got colour turning above you like a sky of gold:
Yellows, browns of the American Pin Oak
Red Horse Chestnut
Claret Ash
Liquid Amber
American Red Oak
LOWER DRIVE
The Lower Drive comes alive in Autumn with:
Dogwoods
Pin Oaks
Red Oaks
English Oaks
Japanese Maple
Tulip
THE GLADES
This is an informal landscape full of rich Autumn colour. It has exotics like Red Oak, Azaleas, Magnolia and this is the best time for:
Pin Oaks
Little Maples – texture of the trunk is different
Nyssa
Fractus
KITCHEN GARDEN
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, there’s a little surprise tucked away behind the house. It’s an organic kitchen garden. Staying true to tradition, no herbicides or pesticides have been used. Instead, a perennial lavender border has been used to keep the pests away along with traditional methods like broken egg shells scattered across the garden bed and a large tin scarecrow. All the food from the garden is used to supply the volunteer-run tearoom with ingredients for recipes like pumpkin soup.
Everglades began its amazing transformation in 1932 when it was bought by wealthy Belgian-born industrialist, Henri Van de Velde as a weekender. He commissioned Danish-born landscape designer, Paul Sorensen, in 1933 to create his dream garden. It was very advanced for its time with exotic plants and trees being imported from Europe, America and Asia. It was a huge job and depression labourers were used to do it. They moved thousands of tons of earth and rock and built kilometres of curved stone walls. Those limestone walls remain a striking feature of the garden today.
http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/properties/everglades/ http://www.nsw.nationaltrust.org.au/everglades-appeal.asp
M&P Assistant Curator, Gabriella Holok, has conducted research into the original fittings, garden furniture and ornamentation at Everglades Gardens, in Leura. A series of photographs in the Trust collection taken during the 1930s, including many by renowned photographer Harold Cazneaux, was the basis for this research.The images provide an invaluable insight into the luxurious Art Deco holiday house and layout of the garden, revealing tiny details such as light fittings, furnishings and hand-crafted garden furniture that have
long since been replaced. A final report will assist in reproducing the missing elements and restoring this important Art Deco property to its former glory.
Stock: In Stock
Price: $9.95
Everglades at Leura by Angela le Sueur, 2007
The fourth book in the National Trust House Series showcases Everglades House and Gardens which is located at the edge of the Blue Mountains World Heritage site. The art deco house owned by Henri Van de Velde and the spectacular gardens designed in collaboration with Paul Sorensen are extensively illustrated throughout the book with over 40 colour and black & white photographs, including recent photographs by Christopher Shain, historic photographs by Harold Cazneaux and original garden plans by Paul Sorensen. This project is proudly supported by AusIndustry, an Australian Government Initiative.
Photographs by Christopher Shain
EVERGLADES – AUTUMN LEAVES
There are 3 places you’ll want to go:
Hellebore Walk
Lower Drive
The Glades
Just inside the entry, you’ll start at the Hellebore Walk. As you walk down it, you’ll get the best shots of the Autumn Gardens below – Lower Drive & The Glades.
THE HELLEBORE WALK
This is where the Autumn transformation begins. You’ve got colour turning above you like a sky of gold:
Yellows, browns of the American Pin Oak
Red Horse Chestnut
Claret Ash
Liquid Amber
American Red Oak
LOWER DRIVE
The Lower Drive comes alive in Autumn with:
Dogwoods
Pin Oaks
Red Oaks
English Oaks
Japanese Maple
Tulip
THE GLADES
This is an informal landscape full of rich Autumn colour. It has exotics like Red Oak, Azaleas, Magnolia and this is the best time for:
Pin Oaks
Little Maples – texture of the trunk is different
Nyssa
Fractus
KITCHEN GARDEN
Just when you think you’ve seen it all, there’s a little surprise tucked away behind the house. It’s an organic kitchen garden. Staying true to tradition, no herbicides or pesticides have been used. Instead, a perennial lavender border has been used to keep the pests away along with traditional methods like broken egg shells scattered across the garden bed and a large tin scarecrow. All the food from the garden is used to supply the volunteer-run tearoom with ingredients for recipes like pumpkin soup.
