Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
1846
landscape
Guilfoyle's 36-year directorship transformed a modest colonial garden into 38 hectares of scientifically curated landscape along the south bank of the Yarra River. His design philosophy (sweeping lawns punctuated by specimen trees, with…
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- 1966
A rockery designed by the landscape architect Ellis Stones was added to the gardens in 1966, one of the twentieth-century insertions into William Guilfoyle's picturesque layout. Stones worked with placed local stone and informal planting…
Ellis Stones
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