On a bit of an Abbotsford Convent theme at the moment. I wandered there again this morning, and found this English Oak. I bet it is not so often photographed in winter as in summer. Of the gardens there, a sign says this:
“The garden was developed when the Convent was built in 1902. The curved paths and garden beds follow the design work of William Guilfoyle who designed the grounds of Government House and the Royal Botanical Gardens. The present garden replaced an earlier on that was a grid-patterned utilitarian design with precious plants closer to the building and picking and vegetable gardens further away.
Late in 2004 a GreenCorp team and a band of dedicated volunteers transformed the garden. All the pathways in the lower part of the garden the rotunda and the brick paved road running along the fence line were completely overgrown and covered with three-metre high blackberries and ivy. Other garden beds were also overgrown with blackberries.
The Garden always needs volunteers to maintain it.
Volunteers now care for the garden. If you would like to help in the garden, please contact Pamela Jellie on 9836 1881
Volunteers work in the garden on the first Wednesday and the third Saturday of each month.Self-guided tour notes are located in the rotunda at the bottom of the Garden.”