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 for a relaxed end-of-year gathering in delightful surroundings. Wander around this wonderful historic garden, home to the Downes family since the 1860s and prior to that, to the Macleay family of Elizabeth Bay House. AGHS Sydney branch members […]
Walk with Colleen Morris, Christine Hay and James Quoyle around this spectacular headland park as they guide and reveal its little-known stories. With continuing First Nations connections, its landform and waterway formed the setting for 19th century colonial occupation. In […]
This tour promises to be spectacular! There are many gardens to visit most with exotic trees which should be in full autumn colour. Places to be visited include The Secret Garden at Richmond, Windyridge Garden and Nooroo at Mount Wilson, Gory'u Japanese […]
Join Colleen Morris, Christine Hay and James Quoyle, for another stroll around this second Birchgrove headland as they guide us to unfold its secrets. A long narrow headland on the harbour’s southern shores, Yurulbin (its Indigenous name recorded in 1832) […]
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 […]
An Illustrated Talk by Dr Siobhan Lavelle OAM The Goulburn Jewish Cemetery and Cultural Landscape was included in the State Heritage Register in 2021 (SHR #2052). It is in the regional city of Goulburn, in the Southern Highlands. The place […]
An Illustrated Talk by Liane Colwell Such was the English prodigality and expertise in Apiculture (hive products) and Apitherapy (remedial use of those products), that England was once known as the Isle of Honey. Skilled in botanical medicine and gardening […]
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 […]
Stuart Read describes the ‘what’, the ‘how’ and sources of help, to manage and conserve historic gardens. Giving an overview of heritage ‘listings’, pieces of law and differences between ‘statutory’ and other listings: what needs approvals and who from… Teases […]
Meiji Shrine. Image Hisashi Nakahara Central Tokyo’s Meiji Shrine Outer Garden is considered a milestone achievement in Japanese urban and landscape planning – its answer to other large urban parks such as Carlton Gardens in Melbourne or Washington DC’s National Mall. It commemorates Emperor Meiji […]
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 […]
Join us for a relaxed end-of-year gathering in delightful surroundings. Wander around the inner Chatswood garden of Sydney branch committee member Gina Plate and John Pagan. Gina has long been involved with the volunteer gardeners at Yasmar, in Haberfield in […]
An Illustrated Talk by Dr Christopher Cheng. What does it mean to rebuild a history when the very people who nourished a community were rendered invisible in official records? As historian Janis Wilton observed in Golden Threads (2014, p.29), the daily worlds […]
An Illustrated Talk by Penny Holden. Professor E G and Mrs Janet Waterhouse were both teachers when they married in 1912. Like good teachers they were in the habit of making copious notes and their diaries too are littered with […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]