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Located just 8 km north of Bell’s Line of Road and 126 km west of Sydney,
is the basalt capped ridge Mount Wilson, a charming village in the Blue Mountains,
with many beautiful cold climate gardens nestled in the Australian bush.
The best time to visit is during spring or autumn. At these times many
of the locals open their gardens to the public, with some of the
gardens over 100 years old. A great place for a leisurely stroll,
children will love it during the autumn, playing in the thick
blanket of fallen autumn leaves.
Check out Church Avenue, Queen’s
Avenue and The Avenue with their rows of plane, limes, elms,
beeches, liquidambars and pink cherries trees.
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Today, the village
is famous for the fact that between 1912 and 1937 Patrick White’s
parents lived in a house called Withycombe, that still stands and is
located on the corner of The Avenue and Church Avenue. In his book
“Flaws in the Glass”, White recalled his time at Mount Wilson in
terms of “gullies crackling with smoky silence, rocks threatening to
explode, pools so cold that the breath was cut off inside your ribs
as you hung suspended like the corpse of a pale frog”.
