Since 1875 Victoria Park/Barrambin was the lungs of Brisbane. This historically protected green parkland has survived rail lines, hospitals, war huts and roadways. Now it faces its greatest transformation yet – an Olympic Stadium – with significant areas of the […]
Protestors tied yellow ribbons and signs around large gum trees in the Park Lands that may be replaced by a circuit for the motorcycle grand prix. Photo S Marsden, 14 June 2026) Colonel Light’s vision for Adelaide as the […]
Most readers of this blog will have sweltered through plus 40 degree heat this summer. They’ll have noticed the immediate effect of shade from established trees, sadly disappearing from our urban spaces (see Caroline Grant’s article in the January 2026 […]
‘Landscapes At Risk: Watch & Action’ List At National Management Committee meeting in June 2015 it was decided to prepare a list of ‘Landscapes at Risk’, as part of our mission to promote awareness and conservation of significant gardens and cultural landscapes […]
Vineyard, Parramatta, 1840 painting by Conrad Martens, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales Stuart Read presented a symposium paper on early vineyards and viticulture (grape-growing) in the Sydney basin at an AGHS symposium in Adelaide in 2015. […]
Considering community feedback, associated with the heritage values of the Lombardy Poplars in the forecourt of the NLA, following plans to replace the existing trees, the National Capital Authority reengaged with the ACT Government to replace the trees with the […]
The Minister for the Arts, Tony Burke, has announced that the Government will provide the National Library of Australia with $33 million over four years in the Budget. The Government is also committing to providing $9.2 million in indexed ongoing […]
We, the Australian Garden History Society, believe the South Australian Government’s intention to locate a new SAPOL Mounted Police Operations Unit at Mirnu Wirra in the south Parklands is an act of vandalism. This decision compounds the disruption brought about […]
Honour & Memorial Avenues / Roadside Plantings; Lone Pines / Arbor Day Plantings – Australia Explore the updated Avenues of Honour / Memorial Avenues / Lone Pine list by Sydney member Stuart Read, which is divided into states and territories, […]
From its inception, the Australian Garden History Society set out to be a conservationist group, concerned for the protection and good care of Australia’s historic gardens to ensure their future. Forty years on, we have ‘jumped the garden fence’ […]
The Southern Highlands Branch of AGHS has not gone into hibernation because of coronavirus. A letter has gone to Wingecarribee Shire Council regarding recent decisions made about the Upgrade to Station Street, Bowral. A recent letter to Council from Nick Corbett questions […]
Montague Island Kitchen Garden Restoration was a recipient of the Society’s Garden Restoration Fund between the ACT Monaro Riverina Branch and the National body. Working alongside the NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service volunteers from the ACT Monaro Riverina Branch […]
In Queensland an opportunity arose to carry out a state wide survey of historic gardens and assess their heritage significance, due to the generosity of the Jani Haenke Charitable Trust. Jani was a member of the Society who died in […]
The ‘English Garden’ and Yarralumla Nursery The English Garden and Yarralumla Nursery are two of Canberra’s heritage treasures. Preserving this heritage is an ongoing task to which the ACT Monaro Riverina Branch has helped contribute. In 1914 the fledgling nursery […]
In 2011/12 the Society commissioned heritage architect and planner Dr Timothy Hubbard and horticultural consultant and heritage consultant Annabel Neylon (Context) to look at the position with respect to the representation of historic gardens on state and local government heritage […]