2023 Annual National Conference
AGHS Conference 2023 - 29 Sep to 1 Oct 2023 - Ipswich, QLD - Digging into the past – above and below the Limestone Hills
AGHS Conference 2023 - 29 Sep to 1 Oct 2023 - Ipswich, QLD - Digging into the past – above and below the Limestone Hills
The day includes tours of four fascinating gardens, each with individual highlights, including dry stone walls constructed by the owners and a reimagining of a nineteenth century church garden. Old Kempton Distillery, Kempton - We will meet here (24 […]
AGHS members & partners are invited to the last AGHS event for 2023, visiting two gardens in the Richmond & Tea Tree areas, & finishing with a Christmas Garden party ……. champagne anyone? Uplands Stables, Cambridge, an 1820’s converted sandstone […]
The Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue forms part of the Queens Domain in Hobart. It is an avenue planted to commemorate soldiers, mainly from Hobart, who died in the Great War (WW1) 1914-1918. In all there are 536 individually named trees. Walk […]
Longford House People, places and stories combines the first of our 2024 Winter Lectures with visits to four historic properties in the Longford & Launceston areas. Saturday’s program commences at 11am in Longford with a tour of the extensive gardens […]
You are invited to our annual Winter webinar and fundraiser for the Nina Crone Writing Fund Big Hearted Gardens: Community and Care at the Melbourne Flower & Garden Show Join landscape architect Emma Sheppard-Simms and go behind the scenes of the Melbourne International Flower and […]
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Ann Cripps present "Convict Gardeners & their Gardens" in the Chapel at the Hobart Penitentiary followed by guided tours of this historic convict site built in the 1830s. The interactive Convict Memorial with digitised records of 75,00 […]
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: […]
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 […]
Members and partners are invited to the AGHS TAS Christmas Garden Party. The afternoon begins at Summerhome, 2 Hopkins St West Moonah, with both the house and garden open, before moving to Runnymede, 61 Bay Rd New Town, where a […]
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 […]
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 […]
We will begin with the AGM, which will be followed by Uninnocent landscapes - a photographic journey with Ian Terry following George Augustus Robinson's Big River Mission. Ian spent two years researching and photographing the route followed by George Augustus […]
Come join us for a morning with Trish as she shares her insights wandering along the Waterworks tracks. Trisha has been developing a compendium of Tasmanian plants and their traditional uses for food, medicine and craft. She has more than […]
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 […]
Moorilla Estate/MONA. Building on the initial aspirations of Claudio Alcorso, the entire complex continues to demonstrate a synthesis of art, history, architecture, and landscape. Our tour will concentrate on the gardens and landscape architecture of MONA including the picking garden. […]
We have a wonderful weekend scheduled in northern Tasmania for 30-31st May 2026. In support of our national AGHS “Trees” theme for 2026, we will explore “What Future for Our Heritage Trees?” Saturday May 30th – visit the two heritage […]
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 […]