Victoria
is known as the City of Gardens.
But
what were its first gardens like?
The
Pemberton family estates - Gonzales, Mount Joy, and Wilmot House -
featured exquisite landscaping and carefully-designed gardens.
This
section explores the nature of these early Oak Bay gardens, and the
ways in which they reflected the Victorian-era conventions prominent in
the English countryside.
Read some sources on gardening in England, then explore the Pembertons'
gardens. What do you think?
