If the City of Albury were a person, its heart would be a garden. Albury’s public gardens are not the hip, ‘up and running in a month’ gardens evidenced in BackYard Blitz. The gardens are a cool place to be in warm weather, and year round, they encourage reflection on history, heritage and the reassuring cycle of nature.
With the first trees planted in 1877, the garden’s elaborate main gates, donated by a former Mayor of the City, Robert M Wilkinson, were erected in the early 1900s. Beyond the Wilkinson Memorial Gates, a canopy of grand old exotic and native trees promise a mix of vertigo and shady wonder.
There are formal beds of blooms and native flora, velvety lawns a formal rose garden and a sundial. Albury’s climate provides four ‘proper’ seasons and nowhere are these more startlingly evident than in the palette of sumptuous colours that mark each season’s arrival and progress through the City’s public gardens.
