Polly Park
Polly Park was an amateur gardener who created, with her husband Peter, the garden 'Boxford' at her suburban house in Red Hill in Canberra, Australia. She was United States born, and travelled around many parts of the world with her husband. In her garden she created separate sections, in which she experimented with the garden styles of different countries. These include several types, from an English knot to Indian.[1] She described the garden in her book The World in My Garden.[2] The fascination of the garden is the successful concentration of effort and imagination within a half acre house block. The garden was recorded by the National Trust.[3]
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Fountain -
The Japanese garden
Despite the heritage listing the garden was destroyed after the Park’s sold their home in 2006.[4]
Polly Park died 10 May 2017 aged 96.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ "Boxford Gardens". Stateline Canberra. ABC. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
- ^ Polly Park The World in My Garden Kenthurst, NSW: Kangaroo Press, 1988.
- ^ National Trust List of Classified or Recorded Places in the ACT
- ^ "Sales history 21 Scarborough Street Red Hill". Allhomes. Retrieved 19 June 2020.
- ^ "Vale Polly Park of Red Hill: The world was in her Canberra garden". The Canberra Times. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 19 June 2020.