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Snowy Hydro – Gardens of the Snowy Mountains (1967)

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clip Seasons in the gardens

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The clip highlights the way in which a European-style garden, very viably established in the Snowy Mountains, accentuates the seasons.

Curator’s notes

by Adrienne Parr

In the 1960s, it was thought that a truly beautiful garden had to be made up of Northern Hemisphere cultivars. Shot in 1967, the clip celebrates the garden potential of Cooma and the newly created towns and settlements of the Snowy Mountains Scheme, such as Cabramurra, Khancoban and Island Bend. Today in those same regions, the beauty and ecological importance of the local eucalypts and other native plants have been acknowledged. Within the Kosciuszko National Park native flora has largely been reestablished. However exotic annuals and perennials, which over the years have naturalised on the abandoned settlement sites, continue to germinate. As recently as late 2006, the NSW Department of Environment and Conservation treated with herbicide a field of colourful Russell Lupins thriving amongst the snow gums.

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