Gidan Ruwa na Eben Gowrie

**Eben Gowrie Waterhouse** OBE CMG (1881–1977) ɗan ƙasar Australiya ne wanda ke da sana'o'i uku masu kyau. Ya fara aiki a matsayin malamin harsuna masu kirkire-kirkire, ya zama ɗaya daga cikin fitattun Jamusawa a Ostiraliya lokacin da al'adun Jamusawa na gargajiya suka ci gaba da samun girmamawa a duk duniya. Tsakanin Yaƙe-yaƙen da aka yi a Sydney, ya kasance babban mai sasantawa kan ɗanɗano a rayuwar gida da lambu, yana haɓaka tunanin ƙirar lambu wanda har yanzu ya mamaye yawancin Sydney North Shore da sassan Melbourne. A ƙarshe, a cikin dogon ritayarsa, ya kawo, a matsayin masani kuma mai kiwon tsire-tsire, wani sabon salo na duniya na farfaɗo da sha'awar nau'in *Camellia*. 

## Rayuwa ta farko
An haifi Eben Gowrie Waterhouse (Gowrie ga abokansa) a Waverley, Sydney a ranar 29 ga Afrilu, 1881. Shi ne na biyu cikin 'ya'yan Gustavus John Waterhouse guda uku da matarsa Mary Jane Vickery, dukkansu 'yan asalin ƙasar ne. Kakanninsa biyu 'yan Ingilishi ne, ɗaya kaka 'yar Scotland, ɗaya kuma 'yar Jamus. Ga kakarsa 'yar Jamus, ya danganta ƙaunarsa ga harshen Jamus a tsawon rayuwarsa. Babban ɗan'uwansa, Gustavus Athol (wanda aka sani da Athol; 1877–1950) ya zama sanannen masanin ilimin halittu kuma ya buga kundin farko na cikakken malam buɗe ido na Australiya.  Ƙaninsa, Leslie Vickery (Les) Waterhouse (1886–1945) injiniyan haƙar ma'adinai ne mai tasiri.  Gowrie ya fara son shuke-shuke, musamman shuke-shuke na asali, tun yana ƙarami mai tafiya a daji. 

## Eryldene

Tsakanin 1913 da 1936, Waterhouse ya gina a kan rabin eka (kadada 0.2) na ƙasa a 17 McIntosh Street, Gordon, wani gida da lambu da ake kira Eryldene bayan haihuwar matarsa a Scotland. Gidajen Ruwa tare da ɗansu Gordon sun ƙaura zuwa gidan a 1914. Daga ƙarshe lambun ya ninka girmansa; a cikin 1921 ya haɗa da tubalan da ke fuskantar titi a baya.[1] William Hardy Wilson ne ya tsara kuma ya gina gidan, "ɗakuna" na lambun a buɗe [2] da yawancin gine-ginen lambun a cikin salon Farfaɗo da Mulkin Mallaka na Georgia wanda aka yi wa ado da gine-ginen farko a Sydney da Hobart, amma kuma a kan bungalows na Indiya na wannan lokacin.[3] [4] An ɗauki gida da lambu a matsayin wani ɓangare na salon Fasaha da Sana'o'i, kodayake gidan ba gidan Fasaha da Sana'o'i ba ne kuma lambun ya fi kama da juna da tsari fiye da "hanyoyin tsakuwa masu laushi, gadaje masu laushi, wardi na yau da kullun da kuma rashin jituwa" [5] na lambunan Fasaha da Sana'o'i maƙwabta.[6] [7] Ta hanyar faɗaɗa gatari na gidan, an saita ɗakunan lambun na yau da kullun a kan tushen eucalypts da ke akwai kamar yadda sauran ƙirar gidan Hardy Wilson suka yi.[8] [2] Waɗannan wurare na yau da kullun an shimfida su da shukar Waterhouse ta rabin-author. Waterhouse ya kwatanta wannan a cikin wani labarin a cikin The Home a 1923.[9] [10] Eryldene ya zama "dutse mai kama da lambunan Sydney na rabin farko na ƙarni na ashirin."[6]

Waterhouse felt that shrubs, camellias especially, lent "great personality" to a garden in a way which had been neglected in Australia. Eventually his garden came to contain over 700 camellia varieties — the largest private collection in Sydney — completely altering its original character. At a time of enormous expansion of gardens and housing on the North Shore, Eryldene and its plantings were imitated all over Sydney (and in many issues of *The Home*, until the magazine's attention was drawn in the Thirties to Spanish cloisters and Modernist sundecks). Nearly a century later, the suburbs of Gordon, Killara, Pymble and Turramurra between May and August present an exceptional display of camellias in every form. The Melbourne suburbs of Ivanhoe and Heidelberg show something similar.

## Camellias

## Manazarta