The town of Lula (Leura), which was originally beautiful and silent on the edge of the Blue Mountain Katumba (Katoomba), is no longer a new place. When the blogger went to the weekend a few years ago, few shops were open, and today's trip has already been crowded by tourists from all over the world. There's a long line up in the bathroom..
Fortunately, the blogger is going to the place, the place is cheap and quiet, it is rarely known to tourists, 1. 7 kilometers from the town of Leura, about 20 minutes walking can be reached! This is the legendary location of the Blue Mountain, overlooking the vast blue Jamison Valley Everglades Historic House & Garden, hereinafter referred to as the Everglades Garden.
Everglades Historic House & Garden
This garden is nearly a hundred years old, and it is an important "historical site" in Australia, and it is also a tortuous history of its own. It has changed its master many times before it has reached its present state. By the time of spring and summer, the cherry blossoms are in full bloom, the trees are green and the shadows are covered with trees. The pool is green, a popular venue for many locals to choose to hold wedding.
Everglades Garden was only an orchard in 1932, when a Belgian-born industrialist named Henri Van de Velde privatised the beautiful landscape, and then asked a architect, Paul, to design it as a garden. It is difficult to remove many big stones from the project. Then Van de Velde himself brought a bunch of carpets, blankets, and renovated them, and then we could see photo.
Four years later, two European Australians and a team of local artists came here, renovated the garden, added a lot of elements of European landscape design to the garden full of Australia's original jungle, and transplanted many varieties of flowers and plants. Among them are cherry blossoms.
At the same time, Van de Velde's own home was built, and until 1947, when Van de Velde leave was born, Paul worked for him to perfect the garden design. In 1962, the place was collected by the National Trust Fund, then rented out, and then rebuilt in 1996. Paul also did not end work until 1970, a lifetime dedicated to the garden.
Now there are grandfathers and grandmothers doing volunteer work inside, so close early, we must find the right time to go. The blogger was late for sleep and missed the opportunity to have tea in it and the afternoon tea was good.
This garden has different scenery from season to season. It is estimated that the winter that bloggers go to is the least to see. March to May should be the best flower season!
Before entering the park, first to buy tickets in this small shop, there are still a lot of souvenirs to buy tickets, buy tickets grandpa moves very slowly and love to chat, he also said that he was going to close the garden, but also pull the blogger to keep nagging, the blogger is also drunk. Buy a ticket will give you a map, in fact this map seems to draw this place is very large, in fact, "ran with eggs", only 13 hectares, a little walk to understand the layout of the map, do not need to look at the map.
Soon after entering the door, I saw a row of tall trees standing upright, next to the iconic buildings of the whole garden, the big grass dam on the left and right, and a water spray pool in the middle. Next to this place, it is the viewing platform that can directly overlook the beautiful scenery of the Blue Mountain. Feel spring to shoot art note crying.
The next floor is Everglades Historic House, which is an afternoon teahouse, two floors, European style, upstairs with bedrooms, living rooms, and a guest room overlooking the Blue Mountain, which is really crying. I feel like I'm sitting inside holding a book, drinking tea, not thinking about leave all day. A lot of furniture in it has a price tag, so if you like the trench, you can buy it home, and in a minute it will be an antique.
Out of the mansion, there are some grass trees out there, and down the road you can see a lookout, but only the lush trees below the valley. There's nothing to look.
However, on the left side of Lookout, there is a small trestle path that leads to a quiet pool, trickling down from the tiny springs on the low wall, and as soon as you approach the edge of the pool, you suddenly feel cold and frightening. If it is an ancient TV series, it feels that there is a cave under the water of the pool for a minute. There are a lot of martial arts secrets inside. I think too much.
The scenery that crawled all the way back to the entrance was more beautiful, and it was more beautiful to see ducks eating the grass happily by the water of the pond. At first, the blogger looked from a distance and thought it was a dove, but later found that if they were pigeons, they were too fat. It was later discovered that it was a duck, not afraid of people, everything was in good harmony, but although it is a garden, but the season is not right, see only part of the flowers, people feel full of depression, it is better to leave as soon as possible.
Concession ：$8 /Children $4
- Spring and summer: daily 10am-5pm
- Autumn and Winter: daily: 10am-4pm
- Teahouse weekdays: 10am-2.3pm
- Teahouse weekend: 10am-3pm
Address: 37 Everglades Ave, Leura NSW 2780
Author: YNP Sydney, eat, drink and play
