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Southern Highlands Branch: Winter Solstice Talks
22 June @ 11:00 am - 2:30 pm AEST
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 a talk on “The history of garden design using native plants, discussing the history of Australian garden design using native plants, including waves of fashions (it didn’t just start in the 1960s), players who were influential, and examples of gardens that remain so. You will be surprised to learn how early and how widely native plants were used!
Ruth Bailey is our second speaker. During the past 4 years Ruth has been the Chair of the AGHS-SHB Committee. In her professional life, Ruth was a pharmacist and a pharmacologist in the US where she created several gardens. She retired to Australia in 2017, later joining the AGHS-SHB. Ruth has a particular interest in recording the significant gardens in the Southern Highlands. In her presentation, she will tell the story of Thrushwood – The Evolution of a Plant Collector’s Garden.
Time: 10.30 am – 2.30 pm. Doors open at 10.30 am and the first presentation will start at 11 am.
Venue: Annesley Ballroom, 10 Westwood Drive Bowral.
Cost: $60 per head (including lunch).
Book: at Humanitix.