This year the AGHS winter film is Saving Grace. Grace, “the best gardener in the world”, lives with her husband in a comfortable house in a Cornish village, growing wonderful orchids in her greenhouse. When her feckless husband dies, she […]
Winter online zoom lecture by Dr Raymond Madden, Senior Lecturer, Anthropologist, in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University James Dawson, (1806-1900), was a prominent pastoralist in the colonial history of western Victoria. In 1881 he published, ' Australian Aborigines: […]
Garden objects, ephemera and stories are well-represented in Australian museum collections, though their significance and connections are not always fully recognised or interpreted. It is time for museum curators and garden historians to have a closer dialogue, so they can better […]
AGM – 5.30pm. Talk: Gardening ancestors: people, plants & memories – 6pm. Speaker: Dr Greg Johnson Each of us has stories and memories that underpin our gardening interests. In his talk Greg Johnson will describe some of the horticultural ancestral echoes […]
Of all the regions of southeastern Australia that Eugene von Guérard (1811-1901) visited none had a more profound impact on him and his career than Victoria’s Western District. His portrayals of its expansive volcanic plains, its landmark scoria cones and […]
Speaker: Adj Professor Margo Ngawa Neale The Joint Annual Lecture of the ACT Monaro Riverina Branch of the AGHS and the Friends of the NLA. Land is viewed as ‘Country’ in Aboriginal Australia. It is a worldview that embodies a […]
44th AGHS Annual Conference Hesperia: Looking West Bunbury, Western Australia Friday 18th, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October 2024. Optional Day Monday 21st October. Pre-conference Tour Tuesday 15th October to Thursday 17th October Leaves Perth and arrives in Bunbury […]
Join us on our Spring Tour of some beautiful private gardens around Cootamundra. Enjoy the rural way of life as you stroll through interesting pastoral gardens. This is a wonderful opportunity to visit some long-established gardens in the ACT Monaro […]
Our end of year event will be in a very special garden in Ainslie. This garden abuts Mount Ainslie and it has always been owned by the same family. It retains the original plantings, which now almost cradle the house […]
Join Ben Taylor, Landscape Manager at the National Gallery of Australia for our AGHS tour of the Sculpture Garden and the Fiona Hall Fern Garden. Ben will speak about the history and proposed re-creation of this iconic three-hectare site. Afterwards, […]
Duntroon House is listed on the Commonwealth Heritage List. Join the knowledgeable Duntroon guides for a tour of Duntroon House and gardens. Hear their stories and look out for historical plantings. The tour will last about 60 minutes plus time […]
This is a joint AGHS/ACT National Trust event. AGHS always look forward to our joint event with ACT National Trust during the ACT Heritage Festival. Bring a picnic and explore other sites in Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve after the tour. Rock […]
Special online lecture by renowned UK Garden Historian, Caroline Holmes. Mary in the Paradise Garden with Saints, c1410-20, Master of the Upper Rhine: Every plant is symbolic as is the enclosure A medieval tapestry of plants, people and poetry, medieval […]
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 […]