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Influence of Gertrude Jekyll in the Adelaide Hills : the landscape of 'Broadlees'

Jones, David 2010, Influence of Gertrude Jekyll in the Adelaide Hills : the landscape of 'Broadlees', Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 241-262.

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Title Influence of Gertrude Jekyll in the Adelaide Hills : the landscape of 'Broadlees'
Author(s) Jones, David
Journal name Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes
Volume number 30
Issue number 3
Start page 241
End page 262
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Place of publication Oxford, England
Publication date 2010-09
ISSN 1460-1176
Summary ‘Broadlees’ exists as an Adelaide Hills hill-station retreat in Australia, established in the 1920s as a permanent residence for the Waite sisters.1 Typically most large hill-station residences and their accompanying private ‘botanic gardens’ were developed as summer residences from the summer onslaught of the Adelaide Plains, but the Waite sisters saw ‘Broadlees’ as their permanent residence. Further, although the design of the residence was not important in the eyes of Misses Eva and Lily Waite, it was the gardens of the property that were their real passion. This article reviews the history and development of the ‘Broadlees’ property and in particular the role played by the writings and gardens of Gertrude Jekyll (1843–1932)2 in its design, form and plantings, which remain the most intact and mature Jekyll-inspired landscape in South Australia today. It is a significant, extant Jekyll-influenced garden developed in the 1920s and 1930s in the Adelaide Hills3 that has been little featured in the coffee-table garden profile literature in Australia, and no article has previously been written about the property. It has been profiled in the Australian Home Beautiful and the South Australian Homes & Gardens magazines in 1932 and 1936 respectively, and also has been subject to a recent comparative assessment as to the role and influence of prominent Adelaide garden designer ElsieMarion Cornish (1870–1946).4 Perhaps because of the wishes of the owners who personally developed and sought to maintain the privacy of the gardens and house, subsequent owners have sought to respect this philosophy in their curatorship of the property.5
Language eng
Field of Research 120107 Landscape Architecture
Socio Economic Objective 970112 Expanding Knowledge in Built Environment and Design
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30031915

Document type: Journal Article
Collection: School of Architecture and Built Environment
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