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The Institute of Land and Food Resources,
Burnley Campus, 		The University of Melbourne. Virtual Tour of the Burnley Gardens

  • Introduction
  • The Main Lawns And Lily Ponds
  • The Sunken Garden
  • Shady Walk
  • Azalea Lawn
  • The Rose Garden
  • The Oak Lawn And Herbaceous Border
  • The Native Garden
  • History of the Gardens
  • Virtual Tour

    • The lily ponds, flowering prolifically in summer, are a direct link to Luffman's original design. Their shape evokes the eighteenth century English Landscape Movement's informality: green lawns widening away from the water's fluid edge. Plantings of Cyperus papyrus (Papyrus) in the ponds are typical of the colonial gardenesque style, whilst the Salix 'Chrysocoma' (Weeping Willow) silhouetted between the horizon and the ground is a powerful image of temperate England.