FUTURE DIRECTIONS DISCUSSION PAPER
This brief paper has been prepared at the request of the NMC at its meeting on 4 December 2023 following a presentation by Peter Watts. It is intended to be further discussed at the next NMC in July 2024 and […]
Category: Articles
The history of early vineyards and viticulture in the Sydney basin
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. […]
Plants of the Simpson Desert
As a supplement to her article ‘Major plant collectors in the Simpson Desert, 1879–1979’, in Australian Garden History, vol. 33, no. 3, January 2022, Rosemary Purdie has documented the first century of plant collecting in the Simpson Desert. The article can […]
Hawthorn
Further to the article Putting hawthorn hedges to work: introducing a modern hedgelayer in the July 2021 issue of Australian Garden History, John Dwyer discusses the place of Crataegus oxycantha L. (white hawthorn) and C. monogyna Jacq. (red hawthorn) in […]
Plant hunting in the Pacific
Alistair Watt’s article, Charles Moore. Plant Hunting in the South Pacific. 1850. is available here for download. This paper This paper draws on Watt’s analysis of Charles Moore’s diary documenting his voyage on HMS Havannah in 1850, his and others’ […]
Silent Space Movement
This article by Liz Ware, garden writer and historian, member of the Garden Media Guild and a former trustee of The Association of Gardens Trusts (now The Gardens Trust), explains her Silent Space initiative to encourage public gardens to reserve an […]
Wandella Woods Arboretum: a year after the fires
In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 2019 a massive bushfire ravaged the town of Cobargo in south-eastern New South Wales and numerous surrounding localities including Wandella Woods Arboretum owned and managed by Brian and Shirleyanne Myers. Brian has […]
Picconia excelsa in Australia and New Zealand
Palo blanco or Canary Island olive trees (Picconia excelsa) in Australia and New Zealand: to date 38 in Australia (13 of these in NSW) and 25 in New Zealand Stuart Read, International Dendrology Society Last updated: 16/04/2021 This rainforest (‘cloud […]
Amazing trees on National Trust of Australia (Victoria) register
Jessica Hood was interviewed ABC’s 7.30 on 1 April 2019 talking about this and other amazing trees on National Trust of Australia (Victoria) register. Filmed in the last few weeks of her role at the National Trust, it captures so […]