Lost Gardens of Sydney

摘要

The earliest gardens established in colonial New South Wales were modelled on the simple squared or rectangular pattern common in the walled kitchen gardens and older estate or cottage gardens of Britain. While the prevailing fashion among wealthy landholders in Britain was to remodel their estates into a park with semi-natural clumps of trees on smooth lawn with an outlook toward a serpentine lake—the 'modern' style promoted by Lancelot 'Capability' Brown—many less fashionable members of the gentry retained their more traditional walled or ornamental and kitchen gardens into the late eighteenth century. This was particularly so in Scotland, birthplace of many influential colonists.