The real Miss Willmott
Miss Willmott’s Ghosts by Sandra Lawrence, Blink Publishing, 2022 Reviewed by Clare Gleeson Who ...
Goronga, a hill station garden
Goronga is a farming property in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges, 55 kilometres from ...
October 2022 issue of Australian Garden History
The October 2022 issue of Australian Garden History is now available. Details of the articles ...
Across Bass Strait. Inter-Colonial Trade in Meat and Livestock by Jane Lennon, Anchor Books Australia, 2022
Review by Rosie Mackinnon, co-chair, Tasmanian branch of AGHS This is an historical account of how ...
The Mick Jagger of the plant world
Tim Entwisle, Evergreen. The Botanical Life of a Plant Punk, Thames and Hudson, 2022, review by ...
Is the pen mightier than the trowel?
No! Neither the pen nor the trowel is mightier; instead, both are needed for understanding ...
UPDATED! Call for proposals: National ‘Landscapes At Risk: Watch & Action’ List
‘Landscapes At Risk: Watch & Action’ List At National Management Committee meeting in June ...
UPDATED: Avenues of Honour and other significant plantings – Australia-wide list
Honour & Memorial Avenues / Roadside Plantings; Lone Pines / Arbor Day Plantings – ...
Scientific gentlemen of the Baudin expedition
Eds Jean Fornasiero, John West-Sooby, ‘Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe’, ...
Winter webinar: Is the pen mightier than the trowel in garden history?
Have you booked yet for the winter webinar? Go to Is The Pen Mightier Than The Trowel In Garden ...
Exploring the tree continent
Book review by Max Bourke AM I seem to be making a habit of this. Last year I got very excited ...
100 years of Australian native plants: the Maranoa Botanic Gardens Florilegium by Margaret Castle
The Maranoa Botanic Garden is a hidden gem in Balwyn not far from Melbourne’s city centre. ...
Harry Turbott: New Zealand’s First Landscape Architect
Garth Falconer, Harry Turbott: New Zealand’s First Landscape Architect, Blue Acres Publishing,, ...
Summer reading
Here in Bundanoon, summer has been elusive. The sun has had to compete with mist and rain; the ...
Common Ground – Garden Histories of Aoteoroa
Common Ground – Garden Histories of Aoteoroa by Matt Morris, Otago University Press, 2020, 276 ...
Wonder: 175 Years of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Hardie Grant Books Richmond, Melbourne, 2021)
As a Melbournian, it was a pleasure to review this amazing book, Wonder 175 Years of Royal Botanic ...
Eden Unearthed: Art in the Gardens
Stuart Read reviews a sculpture exhibition at Eden Gardens & Garden Centre, 307 Lane Cove( ...
Plants of the Simpson Desert
As a supplement to her article ‘Major plant collectors in the Simpson Desert, 1879–1979’, in ...
Saffron
SAFFRON: A Global History by Ramin Ganeshram (Reaktion Books, distributed by NewSouth) was ...
Hawthorn
Further to the article Putting hawthorn hedges to work: introducing a modern hedgelayer in the ...
Book review: a history of food
As editor of both Australian Garden History and the Professional Historians Association’s ...
New book: Illustrated Plant Glossary
The Illustrated Plant Glossary (CSIRO Publishing, 2021, $69.99) by Enid Mayfield is a ...
Illustrations from an 18th-century botanical treasury
Do you want to know what a florilegium is, or a herbal, and would you like to acquire a piece of ...
Goronga plant list
In the October 2021 issue of Australian Garden History, Tim Gatehouse writes about the history of ...
Remarkable Gardens updated: Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden
The latest addition to the Remarkable Gardens list is Wendy Whiteley’s Secret Garden, ...
Plant hunting in the Pacific
Alistair Watt’s article, Charles Moore. Plant Hunting in the South Pacific. 1850. is ...
Silent Space Movement
This article by Liz Ware, garden writer and historian, member of the Garden Media Guild and a ...
AGHS Advocacy
From its inception, the Australian Garden History Society set out to be a conservationist ...
Finding the Mother Tree: book review
Simard, Suzanne, Finding the Mother Tree – Uncovering the Wisdom and Intelligence of the ...
Spirit of the Garden: book review
Trisha Dixon has written an extraordinary book straight from her heart. Her beautiful descriptions ...
Wandella Woods Arboretum: a year after the fires
In the early hours of New Year’s Eve 2019 a massive bushfire ravaged the town of Cobargo in south ...
Picconia excelsa in Australia and New Zealand
Palo blanco or Canary Island olive trees (Picconia excelsa) in Australia and New Zealand: to date ...
Remarkable Gardens UPDATED April 2021
The AGHS is keen to find out from you which ten gardens in your region, state or territory – ...
National E-News
Latest issue July 2020 Previous issues April 2020 March 2020 February 2020 January 2020 December ...
Dig In! with TROVE
Gardeners have long built and re-built communities. Great swathes of land and some important ...
Flowers. Passion. Pain. Nation.
With a title such as that, surely an exhibition for our times. The April issue of Australian ...
Upgrade to Station Street, Bowral
The Southern Highlands Branch of AGHS has not gone into hibernation because of coronavirus. A ...
More Oral Histories Now Online
See the latest additions to the AGHS National Oral History Collection! This is a very special ...
Amazing trees on National Trust of Australia (Victoria) register
Jessica Hood was interviewed ABC’s 7.30 on 1 April 2019 talking about this and other amazing ...
Council supports Australian Garden History Society
Armidale Regional Council has approved funding of $43,656 to the Australian Garden History Society ...
ACT Branch: Planting Memories for the Centenary of ANZAC
The ACT Riverina Monaro Branch received an ANZAC Centenary Local Grant to honour all the men from ...
Garden Restoration Project in the News
Montague Island Kitchen Garden Restoration was a recipient of the Society’s Garden ...
CAL Payments
Many AGHS members have written articles for the Society’s Journal and other publications ...
Kindred Spirits Fund
On her death Lady Law-Smith bequeathed to the Australian Garden History Society the publication ...
Heritage Gardens Queensland Survey
In Queensland an opportunity arose to carry out a state wide survey of historic gardens and assess ...
ACT Branch: The ‘English Garden’ and Yarralumla Nursery
The ‘English Garden’ and Yarralumla Nursery The English Garden and Yarralumla Nursery are two of ...
A National Review of Inventories of Historic Gardens, Trees, and Landscapes
In 2011/12 the Society commissioned heritage architect and planner Dr Timothy Hubbard and ...
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