Join Stuart Read, writer, garden designer and landscape historian, to discover the work of the Guilfoyle family of nurserymen, horticulturists and landscape designers.
Michael Guilfoyle emigrated to Sydney with Huguenot wife Charlotte Delafosse and family in 1849 and established a nursery in Waterloo then in Double Bay in 1850. Son, William Robert, collected for Sydney Botanic Garden and his father’s Exotic Nursery and was made Director of the Melbourne Botanic Garden in 1873.
Stuart leads a stroll through Darling Point and eastern Double Bay to marvel at the Guilfoyle residence, Greenoaks/Bishopscourt and a plenitude of spectacular trees.
The walk starts at Mona Road and ends at Guilfoyle Park and is the fourth in our series of 'Walking Woollahra', proudly supported by Woollahra Council’s Grants Program..