Eryldene will host an online event on 30th March 2023, exploring how historic gardens are building resilience to climate change. Speakers from the UK, USA, Australia and South Africa will share local and global garden management experiences with an interactive […]
‘Love of a crowd, a band, and “a gardens’’’: Music, Recreation, and Gardens at Nineteenth-Century International Exhibitions Winter online lecture by Sarah Kirby International exhibitions were some of the most significant cultural events of the nineteenth century, drawing together displays […]
Outline of Talk A survey of the life and work of perhaps the greatest NSW landscape designer. Unlike Edna Walling, with a monthly plan and column in a popular magazine, Sorensen put little on paper, preferring working in 3D on […]
Winter online lecture by Dr David Marsh, UK What do you know about gnomes? Are they different to dwarves? Or to Elves? Goblins? Pixies? Leprechauns, Boggarts? Or any of the other small folk who live in our imagination and stories…and […]
34th Annual General Meeting Sunday, 13th August 2023 / Gather at 1:45pm for 2:00pm start. Venue: Meeting Room, Royal WA Historical Society, Stirling House,49 Broadway, Nedlands Guest Speaker: Historian and author Gillian Lilleyman For any enquiries, assistance or apologies regarding […]
Overgrowing Canberra Speaker: Julian Raxworthy – Landscape architecture and gardener A core part of the Garden City model is to create a street wide, tree-lined feel by requiring houses to be set well back from the street, visually co-opting residents’ […]
AGHS Conference 2023 - 29 Sep to 1 Oct 2023 - Ipswich, QLD - Digging into the past – above and below the Limestone Hills
Spring into York! is a weekend of displays, tours, talks and everything gardens and gardening at various venues throughout York. AGHSWA members and friends are invited for a BYO morning tea and then visit some of the York Garden Club […]
BYO shared afternoon tea and Annual Chairman’s quiz. Venue: Buckingham House, 10 Neville Dr, Wanneroo. Further information will be provided soon.
Limestone entry gates and mature trees. (Photo: P. Woodward, 2020) You are invited to a guided walk of Wirra Willa Gardens with City of Armadale Project Officer Grant Nixon Afterwards please join us for lunch (at own your cost) at […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Branch has again been invited to participate in the City of Perth’s Boorloo Festival. This will give us the opportunity to distribute information about AGHS including journal back copies. A guided walk of the grounds of Government House, Perth, […]
This year, the Town of Cambridge will be celebrating the centenary of the design of Floreat Park, based upon the concept of Garden Suburbs that grew out of the International City Beautiful movement. For more detail see Gillian Lilleyman’s contribution […]
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 […]
A talk on the Polyphagus Shot Hole Borer (PSHB) by Katelyn Fox, Deputy Public Information Centre, Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) has been organised as a joint function between the Branch and the Cambridge Library. Venue: Cambridge […]
