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Australian Garden History Vol. 23 No. 3 January/February/March 2012
Australian Garden History Vol. 23 No. 3 January/February/March 2012
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Water dreaming Ruth Morgan
The nexus between water availability, garden design, and politics has never been far from the surface in Australia and shows every promise of remaining closely linked for many years to come.
Engaging with the colonial landscape Henry Skerritt
In the exhibition Experimental Gentlemen curator Henry Skerritt questioned the relevance of colonial society for a contemporary audience.
Art, science, and the botanical image Dominic Redfern
‘To create beauty’: Robert Boyle and the Australian landscape Dimitri Serghis
Robert Boyle continues to evolve his own distinctive Australian style drawing on the legacy of the pioneers of a natural design ethos in Australian landscaping.
Divercity Yan Zhao and Akihito Hatayama
Two recent graduates of landscape architecture share their vision for the future of local gardens and the community.
The photographic garden Jessica Hood
Guided by archival and contemporary images we journey through influences on artistic practice that seek to locate and define the relationship between photography and the garden.
For the bookshelf
Reviews of The Biggest Estate on Earth: how Aborigines made Australia by Bill Gammage; Design
with Landscape by Bruce Mackenzie; and In Her Own Words: the writings of Elizabeth Macquarie edited by Robin Walsh.
Profile: Mike Evans
‘Gardens of a Golden Era’: 2012 Ballarat Conference
Australian Garden History Vol. 23 No. 2 October/November/December 2011
Australian Garden History Vol. 23 No. 2 October/November/December 2011
Contents
The Australian Garden History Society Oral History ProjectRoslyn Burge
In 2001, the AGHS initiated a national Oral History Project to record individuals’ recollections of the formation and early days of the Society.
A life in Australia’s history Peter Cuffley
Peter Cuffley has enjoyed a long career as an author of popular books on Australian cultural and social history, but the works closest to his heart have probably been his garden histories.
Garden history and web: dipping, dabbling, and diving Abigail Belfrage
An overview of some key sites in the (sometimes) confusing world of online resources and software for garden history research.
Entering the garden digital delights Matthew Stephens
Digitisation can provide virtual libraries with only a few keystrokes, but how do Australian publications and voices fare in this rapidly developing biblio-cyberworld?
Remembering Tim North Trevor Nottle
A tribute to Tim North (1921-2011).
For the bookshelf
Reviews of Coming to Terms: Aboriginal Title in South Australia edited by Shaun Berg; Frederick Robert D’Arcy: colonial surveyor, explorer and artist by Andy Macqueen; Lands Guide: a guide to finding records of Crown land at Public Record Office Victoria by Phillippa Nelson and Lesley Alves; The Adelaide Park Lands: a social history by Patricia Sumerling;
Keywords in American Landscape Design by Therese O’Malley ; and Weeds: an environmental history of metropolitan America by Zachary J.S. Falck.
Conference report Peter Marquis-Kyle
An overview of the 2011 AGHS annual conference.
Profile: Kathy Wright
A profile of Kathy Wright, treasurer for the AGHS National Management Committee.
View from Kew Tim Entwisle
Australian Garden History Vol. 23 No. 1 July/August/September 2011
Australian Garden History Vol. 23 No. 1 July/August/September 2011
Contents
Protecting cultural landscapes Stuart Read
Understanding the resource of our landscapes Marion Blackwell
The aesthetic qualities of our diverse landscapes are a much under-utilised resource in Australian garden design.
Sifting horticulture from botany: John Lindley’s ‘A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony’ (1840) John Ryan
John Lindley published A Sketch of the Vegetation of the Swan River Colony to promote western Australian plants in European gardens, in the process revealing vivacious opinions about antipodean species.
Creating gardens in the West Ruth Morgan
Western Australia’s varied climates and soils have elicited diverse responses from garden makers and, combined with a distinctive local flora, create the potential for a strong regional character.
Reminiscences of garden and landscape design influences Richard Clough
Australian landscape architect and educator Richard Clough reflects on those people who were influential in his early career in the energetic post-war years.
Notes from a hillside villa Christina Dyson
For the bookshelf
Modernist landscapes: reviews of Washed with Sun by Jeremy Foster; Brenda Colvin: a career in landscape by Trish Gibson; Romantic Moderns by Alexandra Harris; and Landscape Modernism Renounced by David Jacques & Jan Woudstra.
Profile: Caroline Grant
A profile of WA State Representative Caroline Grant.
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 4 April/May/June 2011
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 4 April/May/June 2011
Contents
Insights into Tasmania’s cultural landscape: the conifer connection
Conifers are integral to the older settled Tasmanian landscapes, especially its rural landscapes.
From Head’s Nook to the high plains: Winifred Waddell and the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria
Winifred Waddell was the force behind the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria
Explorations in landscape design theory: designed landscapes and cultural landscapes
Considers the terms 'designed landscapes' and 'cultural landscapes'
Netscape – ENNZ: Environment and Nature in New Zealand
Notes from a hillside villa: Winter reflections
For the bookshelf
Reviews of The Venetian City Garden: place, typology, and perception by John Dixon Hunt and This Infant
Adventure: offspring of the Royal Gardens at Kew by Christian Lamb.
Profile: Stuart Read
Eugene von Guérard retrospective at the National Gallery of Victoria
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 3 January/February/March 2011
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 3 January/February/March 2011
Contents
Vale Margaret Florence Darling AM
Finding Netherby and its custodian Robert Pulleine
The spirited polymath Robert Pulleine was an acknowledged specialist in botany and anthropology as well as a highly respected medical doctor.
Margaret Flockton: botanical artist
Margaret Flockton was the first botanical artist employed by the Sydney Botanic Gardens.
‘The Vision Splendid’: 31st Annual National Conference, Launceston, 5–8 November 2010
Two essays on the 2010 Australian Garden History Society annual conference.
32nd Annual National Conference, Maryborough, Queensland, 19–22 August 2011
An overview of the forthcoming 2011 Australian Garden History Society annual conference.
Victory for Mawallok – and for the protection of historic gardens
The AGHS has been active in conserving the historic vistas at Mawallok from wind turbines.
Notes from a hillside villa: revisiting Villa Gamberaia
Review essay: plants from old catalogues
For the bookshelf
A review of A Passion for Place: gardens of the Blue Mountains.
‘Understanding Place; the resource of landscape’, Western Australian forum, Saturday, 12 March 2011
An overview of the forthcoming Understanding Place forum.
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 2 October/November/December 2010
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 2 October/November/December 2010
Contents
Grace Fraser: an appreciation
Strangers on the Shore
The heroic image of Australia's foundation myth, 'The Landing of Captain Cook at Botany Bay' by E. Phillips Fox, provides the raw material for a startling triptych of paintings.
Writing and reflecting
With the forthcoming publication of Glen Wilson's book Landscaping for Australia, the author reflects on the place of writing amidst a long and rich career.
Gardens lost and found
With the opening in Adelaide of two complementary exhibitions - 'The Garden of Ideas' and 'Lost Gardens of Adelaide' - Carrick Hill's director ponders the nature of loss and opportunity in our garden heritage.
Netscape: South Eastern Australian Recent Climate History
Profile: John Taylor
Review essays: Gardens and ideas
Review essays of Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape by Pamela Bell and Richard Aitken's The Garden of Ideas: four centuries of Australian style by Howard Tanner.
Reade Park Croquet Club rescued
Faced with closure, the Reade Park Croquet Club has been rescued by the enthusiastic response from many local AGHS members other garden orientated groups.
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 1 July/August/September 2010
Australian Garden History Vol. 22 No. 1 July/August/September 2010
Contents
Bellfield and Rossmore: forgotten associations from Thomas Shepherd to Hardy Wilson
Despite few tangible remains, the garden at Bellfield enjoys rich historical associations.
The Romantic ethos (1700–1900)
The tenets, tendencies, and attributes, that form the complex ethos called Romanticism.
The garden at Titanga
The history of the garden at Titanga’s.
A stroll through a lost Sydney garden: Cairnsfoot, Arncliffe (1884–1955)
A reconstruction of the historic Sydney garden Cairnsfoot at Arncliffe.
Still on the trail of Edna Walling
Reflection on Walling’s place in the history of an Australian gardening ethos.
Profile
A profile of AGHS National Management Committee member Dr Jan Schapper.
Netscape: Significant landscape features of Orange, NSW
For the bookshelf
Reviews of When Modern was Green: life and work of landscape architect Leberecht Migge; Gardens of the Goldfields: a central Victorian sojourn; and Garden Gnomes: A History.
Garden history in the United Kingdom
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