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CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

1994 The Changing Landscape: The Garden in the Landscape
Proceedings of the 15th Annual National Conference
Melbourne 21-23 October 1994

  • A Forest at the Edge of the City, Chris McConville
  • The Simla of the South, Paul Fox
  • The Forest Resource of the Macedon Ranges, Frank Moulds
  • Sowing the Seeds: the early Nursery Industry in the Macedon Ranges, Francine Gilfedder
  • Recollections of Life in a Garden, Karin McKinnon
  • Urban Development confronts rural Heritage, Trevor Budge
  • Bushfires: Nature's Renewal and the Rebirth of a Garden, Gregory Moore
  • Conserving the Natural Resource, Max Gilbert
  • Necessity or aesthetic Nicety?, Michael Hough
  • Issues and Solutions, Jan Schapper

1995 From Wilderness to Garden: Early Colonial Gardens - Their Future?
Proceedings of the 16th Annual National Conference
Sydney, 20-22 October, 1995

  • The Formation of the AGHS Heritage Landscapes, and the Protection of Colonial Gardens and Landscapes
    in the Sydney Region, Howard Tanner
  • Plants in Colonial Fashion, Allan Correy
  • The Information Exchange, the Role of Loudon and Others, Colleen Morris
  • The Significance of the Cowpasture Garden, James Broadbent
  • The Condervation Analysis of Camden Park, NSW, the Gardens and the Ground, Michael Lehany
  • Gardening with History at Camden Park, Rosalind Eldershaw
  • Heritage Conservation in the Modern Landscape, Tempe Beaven
  • Gardening at Government House, Sydney: The Power Behind the Flowers, Ian Innes


1997 The City as Garden
Proceedings of the 18th Annual National Conference
Canberra, 25-28 April 1997

  • Garden City or City of Gardens?, Diane Firth
  • The Sydney-Canberra Link: In Living Memory, Allan Correy
  • Canberra's Green Foundation: the Charles Weston Influence, John Gray
  • The Pryor Years: Canberra's public landscaping in the the 1940s and 1950s, Bernadette Hince
  • Plants and People: a slice of history, Margaret Hendry
  • Anzac Parade: A Landscape of Memory, Ken Taylor
  • V.I.P. Gardens, Richard Ratcliffe
  • Creating Lake Burley Griffin, Richard Clough
  • Caring for Canberra's Heritage Trees, Robert Boden
  • The Garden as an Expression of Migration, Helen Armstrong
  • An Ecological Approach to Gardens, Judy van Gelderen
  • Gardens as Art, Vladimir Sitta
  • Backyard Imperatives: use it or lose it!, Deborah Malor


1999 The Changing Rural Landscape - Gardens, Vineyards, Forests
Proceedings of the 20th Annual National Conference
Mount Gambier, South Australia, 5-7 October, 1999

  • The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens and Its impact on Garden History, Richard Aitken
  • Vineyards, Forests and Food, Doug Balnaves
  • Saving Plants from the Past for the Future, Clive Blazey
  • The Way It Was, Neville Bonney
  • The Challenges of Rural Gardening, Helen Diprose
  • Californian and Australian Gardens, William Grant
  • The Cave Garden of Mount Gambier, David Jones
  • The Way It Was - Homestead Gardens, Jan Kentish
  • Restoring the Landscape, Ian McLachlan
  • Gardening in the 21st Century - some insights, Trevor Nottle
  • The Mount Gambier Area in 'a grain of sand', Pam O'Connor
  • Aboriginal life in the South East in the Period Before European Settlement, Pauline Payne
  • Forestry in the South East - a designed landscape Industry, Rob Robinson
  • Reflections upon Life in the Penola-Coonawarra Region, Peter Rymill
  • Tomatoes in 19th Century Australian Gardens and Kitchens, Barbara Santich


2000 Richness in Diversity
- from Grasslands to Rainforest, from Stonewalls to Potagers

Proceedings of the 21st Annual National Conference
Southern Highlands, NSW, 3-6 November 2000

  • v The Natural heritage of the Southern Highlands Geology, Soils and Vegetation in the Southern Highlands, David Tranter, Greg Stone & Ray Nolan
  • v Ecological Sustainability and Gardens of the Future, Judyth McLeod
  • v Simla in the Southern Highlands, John Hawkins
  • v Passionate Gardeners of the Southern Highlands:
    Redlands
    Kennerton Green
    Ditchfield
    Whitley
    MossVale
    Andrewville
    Mittagong
    Michele Scamps
    Marylyn Abbott
    Geoff Duxfield
    Robyn Hawkins
    Nicholas Bray
    Jane Lemann
    Sarah Cains

2003 Tropical Pleasures': A Focus on Queensland Gardens
Proceedings of the 24th Annual National Conference
Brisbane 11-13 July 2003
Printed in the special issue of the Queensland Review, UQP (2004)

  • Tropicalia: Gardens with Tropical Attitude, Jeannie Sim
  • Can Brisbane Remain a Subtropical City?, Peter Spearritt
  • The Acclimatisation Society Gardens, Catherine Brouwer
  • Assimilating Nature: The Bunya Diaspora, Anna Haebich
  • Retailing Tropical Plants in Queensland: A Family History, Bruce Perrott
  • Harry Oakman (1906-2002): A Retrospective of His Life an Work, Ross McKinnon, Malcolm Bunzli & Ray Steward
  • Planning for Conservation of the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens, John Taylor
  • Cultivating Identity: The Gardens at Gracemere: A Description of a Landscape of Memory, Laura Emmison
  • Ellis Rowan: Flower-Hunting in the Tropics, Judith McKay
  • Paronella Park: Conserving a Tropical Pleasure Garden with Ruined Concrete Structures, Jinx Miles
  • The Oasis: Brisbane's Water Playground, Glenn Cooke
  • Binna Burra and O'Reilly's: Gardens in the Scenic Rim, Jane L. Lennon
  • Tropical Gardens: The Myth and the Reality, Dinah Hansman
  • The Evolution of the 'Queenslander' Garden, Maurice C. Wilson
  • Palazzo Versace and Couran Cove: Contrasting Resort Gardens of the Gold Coast, Kate Green
  • Roma Street Parkland: Past, Present and Future Heritage, Laurie Smith

2004 - Browned Off: Old Gardens in the New World
Proceedings of the 25th Annual National Conference
Sydney, NSW, 14-16 October 2004

  • The Joys of Using Libraries to Research Gardens, Colleen Morris
  • Cultivating the Sydney Basin, Craig Burton
  • Botanic Gardens Trust: First Things First, Tim Entwisle
  • Line of Sight: Allusions to the Picturesque in Some Colonial Gardens, Elizabeth Ellis
  • The Cottage at Mulgoa, James Broadbent
  • True California Gardens...' and the Australian Connections, John Adam
  • Managing Heritage Gardens in a New World, Silas Clifford-Smith
  • 'Best Fit' What does it mean for Sydney Gardens, Peter Nixon
  • Water and the Vaucluse House Garden, Dave Gray
  • Charles Fraser, 1791-1831: First Colonial Botanist, First Superintendent, Sydney Botanic Gardens, Gillian Davies with Christine Carwardine
  • Conference After Dinner Speaker, Peter Valder
  • Bringing the Bush Back to the City: The Re-Greening of Lane Cove North in the Early 1970s, Barbara Buchanan
  • Water Sustainability - The Big Picture, Noel Merrick
  • Gardens of Hope, Helen Armstrong
  • Australian Garden History Society Conference, Sydney 2004 - Summary of Talks, Howard Tanner

2005 – From Sea to Scarp
Proceedings of the 26th Annual National Conference, Perth, WA, 14-16 October 2005

  • The Swan Costal Plain, Greg Keighery
  • The Development of the Early Nursery Industry in Western Australia, Carol Hooper
  • The Golden Pipeline: Beyond the Escarpment, Diana Frylinck
  • John Oldham and the Narrows Interchange, Philip Palmer
  • Joondalup City Streetscapes, Tony Blackwell
  • Developments in Early Twentieth Century Western Australian Gardening and Landscaping, Gillian Lilleyman
  • The Historic Town of Guildford: Between Sea and Scarp, Barbara Dundas

 

2009 – Cultivating Australia Felix: The Pastoral Legacy
Proceedings of the 30th Annual National Conference, Geelong, Victoria 16-18 October 2009

  • The Artist and the Country House: the Pictorial Record of Rural Gardens in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Victoria, Terrance Lane
  • The Volcanic History of the Western Plains of Victoria, Dr Bill Birch
  • ’The Stony Rises’: Reading the Cultural Landscapes of Australia Felix, Professor Harriet Edquist
  • Cultivating the Maidenhair and the Maiden Fair— the Social Role of the Late Nineteenth-Century Conservatory, Dr Timothy Hubbard
  • Speaker to a landscape image –Muntham Thomas Clark c.1860, Daniel McOwan
  • Speaker to a landscape image - Purrumbete from Across the Lake 1858 Eugène von Guérard, Dr Ruth Pullin
  • Speaker to a landscape image – William Tibbits and Darriwill Vineyard (at
  • Moorabool, near Geelong) 1875, Alistair Hope
  • Sustainable Management of Heritage Gardens: Fact, Fiction or Fancy? Donna Ellis
  • Grooming the Great Plains of Australia Felix: Homestead Traditions in western Victoria, Allan Willingham
  • Property Owner - Titanga, Lismore, Val Lang
  • Property Owner - Turkeith, Birregurra, Helen Page for Janet Gordon
  • Property Owner -Murndal, Hamilton, Catharine Winter-Cooke

 

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