GARDEN CITY
“THE VEGETABLES, HERBS, FLOWERS AND FRUIT TREES ARE PLANTED IN SPECIALLY DESIGNED WICKING BEDS, WHICH CAN BE MOVED AROUND THE PRECINCT AND WHICH ALL HAVE THEIR OWN IRRIGATION SYSTEM.”
Just over 200 years ago, Governor Lachlan Macquarie came to Hobart and immediately ordered the colony’s ramshackle road system be changed to a more orderly network.
Those neat — and these days very busy — main roads skirt the edge of Macquarie Point, once a working waterfront but now under development as a mixed-use community facility
