Do you have memories of sharing midday heat with the flies in a country school playground, when your playmates headed for the shade of the large old pepper tree that seemed to grow in every country schoolyard and on every […]
The Southern Highlands branch presents an online talk by John Blay – Wild Country Plants and Garden Design John Blay, is a writer and naturalist, who was born at Parramatta in 1944. He has written extensively about the bush and its […]
AGHS ACT Monaro Riverina Branch 2025 AGM to be followed by a talk by our special guest Gweneth Leigh Venue: Chambers Pavilion, Centre for Christianity and Culture, 15 Blackall St, Barton Cost: This is a free event – please book […]
This talk continues the long-standing tradition of a joint annual event between the ACT Monaro Riverina Branch of AGHS and the Friends of the National Library of Australia. Speaker: Dr Chris Carter Water is essential for human survival. We need […]
Mount Gambier Conference 2025 Beyond the Garden Fence The 45th AGHS Annual National Conference 2025 will be held at The Barn, Mount Gambier from Friday 31st October to Sunday 2nd November. Early registration will be available on Thursday 30th October […]
A joint Australian Garden History Society/ National Trust (ACT) event. View several very different styles of historic house in the suburb of Griffith united by garden city landscaping. This walk around the leafy streets of suburban Griffith will showcase different […]
Join us for our end of year event in the garden of Rosalind and Benjamin Walcott. The property, in Red Hill, was first developed in 1926. The property was purchased by the French government and used as their Chancery office […]
Join us for our first event of the year at the Australian National Botanic Gardens which is home to Australia’s largest collection of native plants. We will meet at the Theatrette at 10 am for a 15-minute presentation about the […]
Canberra Rotary Peace Bell Lennox Gardens, in Yarralumla, has strong historic links to the early days of the national capital. The park in its current condition was established with the filling of Lake Burley Griffin in the 1960s; however, the […]
Hackett’s rapid growth in the mid-20th century saw innovations in architecture, including pioneering townhouses, change in the emergence of native gardens, and optimism in the community facilities planned by the National Capital Development Commission. How can this distinctive character be […]
The English Garden at Weston Park, Yarralumla Introducing various approaches to historical interpretation A FREE TOUR – Bring your friends for an autumn stroll and introduce them to the AGHS. AGHS has a long connection with the English Garden that […]
The Winter Lecutre 2026 will be presented by Mark Butz. As we move closer to the centenary of our national parliament, let’s look at the preceding hundred years, local European land use then, and how it has developed to what […]
Please join The AGHS Victoria Branch for this most interesting presentation about the plant hunters over the ages. New plants were brought back on expeditions and travels, which became popular for use in home and botanical gardens. Many of the […]
Our Winter Film Day returns, with a twist. An improbable group of people are thrown together in the wake of a terrorist attack on their train carriage, travelling to Milan. They begin to recover in a Tuscan house and garden, owned […]
Numbers strictly limited! Take a Senior Safari with AGHS as we visit a significant landscape in the ACT. Hop aboard one of the 12-seater Bettong Express safari buses for a special tour through the woodland ecosystem of Mulligans Flat. Mulligans […]
What do you do when you have political ambitions but no formal power? If you are Empress Maria Feodorovna of Russia, daughter-in-law to Catherine the Great, wife of the volatile Paul I, mother of two future tsars, you build a […]
All Branch members are strongly encouraged to attend this meeting. If you can’t attend but would like to submit an apology, please email Helen Stevens, Secretary ACT Monaro Riverina actmrsec@gardenhistorysociety.org.au. We warmly invite Branch members to nominate for the Committee. […]
The ACT Monaro Riverina Branch of the Australian Garden History Society and the Friends of the National Library of Australia’s annual joint lecture. Our national theme for AGHS in 2026 is Trees. In this spirit Tim Entwisle will speak about […]
Fruits of Orange, Exploring Central Western NSW The registration brochure for the 46th annual conference in Orange from 24–27 September 2026 (optional day, 28 September and pre- and post-tours from Orange to the Blue Mountains) is now available: AGHS Conference […]
In keeping with the focus on local cultural landscapes, we will visit Millpost, a family farm near Bungendore NSW. This will be a “show and tell” by David Watson, about his family’s nearly fifty years of restorative agriculture and care […]