Most Victorians are unaware that our first Lieutenant-Governor, Charles Joseph La Trobe, developed a beautiful garden around his 12½ acre Jolimont estate during the nearly 15 years he spent in Victoria. This talk takes you on a virtual tour of the garden using detailed drawings by Edward La Trobe Bateman completed in 1853.
Most Victorians are not aware that our first Lieutenant Governor, Charles Joseph La Trobe, developed a beautiful garden around his 12½ acre Jolimont estate during the nearly 15 years he spent in Victoria from 1839. His home and garden became an oasis for him and his family in this foreign land.
He also supported Georgiana McCrae as she developed her gardens in both Abbotsford and McCrae.
Drawings by Edward La Trobe Bateman give us a flavour of the every-day matters of life at Jolimont in its hey-day, and show how the garden had become a haven of Mediterranean and Australian native plants. Present-day photos show the plants currently growing in the La Trobe’s Cottage garden, some of which we know he grew, through studying the lists of plants sent to him by Ronald Gunn in Van Diemen’s Land and the Sydney Botanic Garden, and some which were named after him.
The talk will be followed by a tour of McCrae Homestead.
This event is offered exclusively for National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Members. Spaces are limited and bookings are essential.
