Get 20M+ Full-Text Papers For Less Than $1.50/day. Start a 14-Day Trial for You or Your Team.

Learn More →

Influence of Gertrude Jekyll in the Adelaide Hills: the landscape of ‘Broadlees’

Influence of Gertrude Jekyll in the Adelaide Hills: the landscape of ‘Broadlees’ david jones ‘Broadlees’ exists as an Adelaide Hills hill-station retreat in Australia, established developed in the Hills during the 1870s and 1890s and 1920s and 1930s, this in the 1920s as a permanent residence for the Waite sisters. Typically most large property neither looked over the Adelaide Plains nor created an inward-looking hill-station residences and their accompanying private ‘botanic gardens’ were landscape. Instead, it looked eastwards to the Mount Barker foothills and dry developed as summer residences from the summer onslaught of the Adelaide River Murray landscape beyond. It also experienced morning sunrises and was Plains, but the Waite sisters saw ‘Broadlees’ as their permanent residence. sheltered from the afternoon sun’s ravages, particularly in the hot dry summer Further, although the design of the residence was not important in the eyes of days, catching the Hills rains and misty moisture-laden mornings on winter days. Misses Eva and Lily Waite, it was the gardens of the property that were their real As a response to the hot dry summers experienced on the Adelaide Plains the passion. This article reviews the history and development of the ‘Broadlees’ wealthy and establishment of Adelaide sought refuge in the Adelaide Hills. They property and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes Taylor & Francis

Influence of Gertrude Jekyll in the Adelaide Hills: the landscape of ‘Broadlees’

Download PDF
22 pages

Loading next page...
 
/lp/taylor-francis/influence-of-gertrude-jekyll-in-the-adelaide-hills-the-landscape-of-VxY7SjmYmM

References

References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.

Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Copyright
Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
ISSN
1943-2186
eISSN
1460-1176
DOI
10.1080/14601170903010309
Publisher site
See Article on Publisher Site

Abstract

david jones ‘Broadlees’ exists as an Adelaide Hills hill-station retreat in Australia, established developed in the Hills during the 1870s and 1890s and 1920s and 1930s, this in the 1920s as a permanent residence for the Waite sisters. Typically most large property neither looked over the Adelaide Plains nor created an inward-looking hill-station residences and their accompanying private ‘botanic gardens’ were landscape. Instead, it looked eastwards to the Mount Barker foothills and dry developed as summer residences from the summer onslaught of the Adelaide River Murray landscape beyond. It also experienced morning sunrises and was Plains, but the Waite sisters saw ‘Broadlees’ as their permanent residence. sheltered from the afternoon sun’s ravages, particularly in the hot dry summer Further, although the design of the residence was not important in the eyes of days, catching the Hills rains and misty moisture-laden mornings on winter days. Misses Eva and Lily Waite, it was the gardens of the property that were their real As a response to the hot dry summers experienced on the Adelaide Plains the passion. This article reviews the history and development of the ‘Broadlees’ wealthy and establishment of Adelaide sought refuge in the Adelaide Hills. They property and

Journal

Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes – Taylor & Francis

Published: Aug 25, 2010

There are no references for this article.