Pamela Jellie
Chair:
Pamela Jellie
Vice-Chair:
Lorrie Lawrence
Treasurer:
Kathy Wright
Minute Secretary:
Susan Reidy
Secretary:
Helen Botham
Committee:
John Dwyer (NMC Representative)
Anthea Hill
Anthony Menhennitt
Bronwen Merrett
Anne Vale
Bishopscourt: Third Wednesday of every month
The Australian Garden History Society maintains this garden at 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne and welcomes new volunteers. For further information contact helenpage@bigpond.com
Abbotsford Convent Gardens: First Wednesday of every month
Garden volunteers meet on the first Wednesday and the third Saturday of every month except in January. Starting time is 9.30 am, morning tea is provided, BYO lunch and gardening gloves. Assistance in the garden is most welcome. Contact: Pamela Jellie email pdjellie@hotmail.com.
Christmas Celebration
Wednesday 3 December 2008 at 6.00pm
Old Colonialists’ Association of Victoria. Rushall Park, North Fitzroy. Meet at the gate in Rushall Crescent. (Mel: 30, D12).
The Association was formed in 1869 by a group of prominent Melbournians led by George Coppin, actor, Member of Parliament and philanthropist to care for elderly people in difficult circumstances. The first accommodation was built on land granted by the State at Rushall Park, North Fitzroy. A number of the original blue stone cottages remain. Today there are 135 independent living cottages, as well as a nursing home and hostel. We will be given a tour of the gardens and then picnic on the site.
This is a free event, but BYO picnic.
Contact: Anthony Menhennitt (03) 9744 2467 or email: hmenhennitt@hotmail.com.
February 2009 Walk and Talk
Wednesday 11 February 2009 at 6.00pm
St Kilda Botanic Gardens Blessington Street, St Kilda. Meet at the Blessington, Tennyson Street entrance. (Mel: 2P 10D)
Escorted walk through these historic gardens that are noted for the Alister Clark Rose Garden, the collection of mature trees and a sub tropical rainforest conservatory.
Invite your friends to join us for this free event. BYO picnic.
Contact: Bronwen Merrett 0407 050 172 or email: bronm@bigpond.net.au.
Friday 24 - Sunday 26 April 2009
Historic Beechworth and environs. An all inclusive coach tour of gardens and landscapes in this historically rich area. Please note the dates in your diary. More details and the booking form in the next journal.
Contact Mary Chapman email: mary.chapman@melbourne.vic.gov.au.
Garden Cuttings – Articles for The Age by Nina Crone.
The AGHS has supported the production of this book, in which the articles Nina wrote for The Age between 1982 and 1997 under the pseudonym ‘Alison Dalrymple’ are republished.
Most of the articles were written while Nina was Principal of Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School, the time in her life when she began to appreciate the beauties and joys of plants and gardens world-wide. Her visits to the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, just across the road from the school, and her visits to national and international gardens, were an outlet from her busy professional life, and became the basis from which her later editorship of Australian Garden History took inspiration.
See attached flyer and order form.
Copies available from Melbourne Girls Grammar School, 86 Anderson St, South Yarra, 3141, fax 9866 1119.
Profits go to Melbourne Girls Grammar School, to set up a ‘Nina Crone Prize for Excellence in History’.
These beautiful cards, still available at a reduced price: sets of six for $5.00
