Category: Events
Short story competition for year 6 students in and around Orange, NSW
This competition is part of the Australian Garden History Society’s 46th annual conference, taking place in Orange from 24 to 27 September 2026, and is only open to Year 6 students living in Orange, Millthorpe and Molong and surrounding areas. […]
Mount Gambier 30 October to 2 November 2025: full conference program out now!
Eugène von Guérard, Crater of Mount Gambier South Australia, 1867, colour lithograph, National Gallery of Victoria Have you booked to attend AGHS’s 45th annual conference in Mount Gambier? If not, the full program of speakers and excursions is now […]
Accessing the Archives – William Andrews Nesfield
Image: London – Kew Gardens – Palm House Parterre 1848 by William Andrews Nesfield, Wikimedia William Andrews Nesfield (1793–1881) was an English soldier, landscape architect and artist. A five-part online series about Nesfield is being presented by the UK Gardens […]
Eucalypts of Hodogaya: the Yokohama Commonwealth War Cemetery
Photo, Anoma Pieris This abridged version of an article by Anoma Pieris, Professor of Architecture and Associate Dean Research at the Melbourne School of Design first appeared in Pearls and Irritations on 16 August 2025. The most significant allied memorial […]
University of Canberra Culture and Creativity Seminar – Routledge Handbook of Cultural Landscape Practice: What’s in it (for me)?
Cultural landscapes, which in the field of heritage studies and practice relates to caring for and safeguarding heritage areas, is a concept embedded in contemporary conservation. The concept came to global attention in 1992 following its adoption as a category […]
Winter webinar: Is the pen mightier than the trowel in garden history?
Have you booked yet for the winter webinar? Go to Is The Pen Mightier Than The Trowel In Garden History? Tickets | TryBooking Australia
Eden Unearthed: Art in the Gardens
Stuart Read reviews a sculpture exhibition at Eden Gardens & Garden Centre, 307 Lane Cove Road (cnr. Fontenoy Road), Macquarie Park, Sydney until April 2022 or @ Eden Unearthed – Eden Gardens I have visited this outdoor sculpture exhibition curated by […]
Flowers. Passion. Pain. Nation.
With a title such as that, surely an exhibition for our times. The April issue of Australian Garden History contained an advertisement for the current exhibition at Adelaide’s David Roche Foundation House Museum, Flowers. Passion. Pain. Nation. although, sadly, carrying […]