Drummond's Rose Hedge

31°30′51″S 116°27′22″E / 31.51417°S 116.45611°E / -31.51417; 116.45611 Drummond's Rose Hedge is an historic planting of rose bushes along the Bindi Bindi-Toodyay Road about five kilometres north of the town of Toodyay, Western Australia. It was planted in about 1860 by the botanist and farmer James Drummond near the homestead of his estate Hawthornden.^[1]

This planting of roses has been designated as a "Special Environmental Area" by the Roadside Conservation Committee of the Parks and Wildlife Service,^[2] one of just two such areas in the Shire of Toodyay. It has become a significant tourist attraction in the area.

References edit

^ Viska, John (January 2016). "Reinstatement of an historic rose hedge at Guildford". Australian Garden History. 27 (3): 11–12.
^ "Assessment of the Conservation Value of Roadside Vegetation in the Shire of Toodyay, WA" (PDF). Parks & Wildlife Service. 1990. p. 5. Retrieved 30 September 2020. Note: the pagination of this document is inconsistent, the pages not being presented in order and some pages being unnumbered. There are two pages numbered as -5-, one in typescript and one by hand. The reference is to the first page so numbered.

[1] Viska, John (January 2016). "Reinstatement of an historic rose hedge at Guildford". Australian Garden History. 27 (3): 11–12.

[2] "Assessment of the Conservation Value of Roadside Vegetation in the Shire of Toodyay, WA" (PDF). Parks & Wildlife Service. 1990. p. 5. Retrieved 30 September 2020. Note: the pagination of this document is inconsistent, the pages not being presented in order and some pages being unnumbered. There are two pages numbered as -5-, one in typescript and one by hand. The reference is to the first page so numbered.

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