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Shaping Nature:
The Pemberton Family's Construction of Victoria's Landscape

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Introduction

Conventions of Gardening in Victorian England

What Victorian-Era Gardens Meant to the English

The Pemberton Family Gardens









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?

  • Were the Pembertons' gardens modeled after contemporary English gardens?
  • To what extent did the Pembertons import Victorian English ideals into Victoria, and how did they do this?


English Garden

English Gardening

J. D. Pemberton, Gonzales

The Pemberton Family Gardens