'The garden was gay with roses, lupins and delphiniums'The Heysens at The Cedars in Hahndorf

摘要

Located just on the edge of Hahndorf in the Adelaide Hills, The Cedars has long been associated with the Heysen family. For this article, the author was granted full access to a collection of archival gardening material, and, more importantly, personal letters from Josephine Heysen and her siblings to her friend 'Jack'. These letters offer the reader the strongest imprint of Heysen family life and events as the garden developed and grew around them. Today the sense of the Heysen family still lingersstrongly on the property.