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 […]
Branch members (and other Society members visiting Adelaide at the time) are invited to a talk by Susan McCormack, Carrick Hill Director, on the collection of gardening tools and related ephemera donated to Carrick Hill by Richard Bird in 2013, […]
Westgarthtown, Lalor/Thomastown is an historic farming settlement established c.1850s by German immigrants. We will have a special guided tour around Ziebell’s farmhouse, out buildings, garden and museum plus the Lutheran church, cemetery and other historic sites. After a delicious morning […]
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, […]
Bookings are now open for this fantastic event. Located in the rolling hills of the Camden area, Brownlow Hill is a rare, substantially intact colonial farming estate, set amongst an idyllic country landscape where many of the early colonial structures […]
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 […]
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) […]
About Led by Beaumaris Modern group founder, Fiona Austin, this walking tour takes in the Eastern part of Beaumaris and features houses designed by mid-century modern architects, Chancellor & Patrick, Eric Lyon, John Baird and Kevin Knight. The tour also […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Chair of the AGHS Sydney Branch, Stuart Read is a landscape and garden historian, horticulturist, heritage bureaucrat, tour leader and educator. His interests include environmental history, economic botany, landscape design history, dendrology, plant movement and public parks. Stuart will give […]
Lecture 1: Ecstatic about seaweed: eighteenth-century women tourists & scientific collecting ‘The Miss Beauforts were ecstatic about the seaweed’, wrote Jane Austen in her unfinished novel, Sandition. For the sisters, seaweed collecting was not just a scientific activity, but also […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The AGM is a great opportunity to refresh everyone's minds about our many events and advocacy achievements during the past 12 months. As you may recall we have a very active committee who works hard to bring you these events and […]