AGHS Annual Report 2021-2022
The Australian Garden History Society is pleased to provide you with the AGHS Annual Report 2021-2022.
Category: News
UPDATED: Avenues of Honour and other significant plantings – Australia-wide list
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, […]
October 2022 issue of Australian Garden History
The October 2022 issue of Australian Garden History is now available. Details of the articles appearing in this issue can be found here. Members can login and download the free journal here. Non-members can purchase printed or digital versions of […]
UPDATED! Call for proposals: National ‘Landscapes At Risk: Watch & Action’ List
‘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 […]
Goronga plant list
In the October 2021 issue of Australian Garden History, Tim Gatehouse writes about the history of Goronga, a grazing property with a hill-station garden in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 55 kilometres from Melbourne. The two driveways that converge […]
Remarkable Gardens updated: Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden
The latest addition to the Remarkable Gardens list is Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden, featured at AGHS’s 41st conference. This garden in Lavender Bay, North Sydney began in 1992 when artist Wendy Whiteley found solace after her artist husband Brett Whiteley’s death […]
Remarkable Gardens UPDATED April 2021
The AGHS is keen to find out from you which ten gardens in your region, state or territory – public and private – you think are remarkable or notable in that area. See our list of Remarkable Gardens. See if […]
National E-News
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Dig In! with TROVE
Gardeners have long built and re-built communities. Great swathes of land and some important Australian gardens were lost or significantly damaged in the fire and hailstorms of the 2019-2020 summer. In keeping with the AGHS mission to promote awareness through […]
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 […]
More Oral Histories Now Online
See the latest additions to the AGHS National Oral History Collection! This is a very special collection of memories, thoughts and ideas from the mouths of those whose passion helped shape the AGHS into what it is today. To see […]
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 […]
Council supports Australian Garden History Society
Armidale Regional Council has approved funding of $43,656 to the Australian Garden History Society for the development of its Heritage Rose Garden Stage 2. The funding support has come from Council’s Stronger Communities Grants program which was a one-off allocation […]
ACT Branch: Planting Memories for the Centenary of ANZAC
The ACT Riverina Monaro Branch received an ANZAC Centenary Local Grant to honour all the men from the Canberra region who served in World War 1. On 13 October 2016, immediately prior to the 2016 National Conference a commemorative sign was unveiled […]
Garden Restoration Project in the News
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 […]
CAL Payments
Many AGHS members have written articles for the Society’s Journal and other publications over past years. Copyright Agency Limited (CAL) monitors (photo-) copying of material in libraries and academic institutions, and collects fees on behalf of the authors. We have […]
Kindred Spirits Fund
On her death Lady Law-Smith bequeathed to the Australian Garden History Society the publication rights to the book, ‘Kindred Spirits: A Botanical Correspondence’. This tells the life stories of Joan Law-Smith and the fine botanist and naturalist, Jean Galbraith, and their […]
Heritage Gardens Queensland Survey
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 […]