Australian Garden History Society

CURRENT ISSUE of the AGHS JOURNAL

Australian Garden History

Volume 19 Number 5

May/June 2008

In members letterboxes now!

View article William Cobbett: cottager’s friend by Silas Clifford-Smith.

29th Annual National Conference

Bowral, NSW

10-12 October 2008

The 29th Annual National Conference is to be held at Oxley College, Bowral in the beautiful Southern Highlands region of New South Wales.

This three day conference will look at the distinct periods of garden and horticultural development in the Southern Highlands balancing a comprehensive lecture program with visits to significant gardens including Retford Park, Moidart, Shambala (formerley Kennerton Green) and Summerlees. The influence of families, the work of designers and the role of nurseries in this development will be explored as will the geography and the natural beauty of the environment.

Peter Valder is sure to delight his audience at the optional conference dinner to be held at Milton Park

An Optional Day on Monday 13 October will explore the South Coast whilst writer and photographer Trisha Dixon will conduct Pre and Post Conference Tours for those wanting to glimpse into some of the most historic cultural landscapes of the Taralga, Goulburn and Menangle districts.

Pre Conference Tour 6,7,9 October
Post Conference Tour 14,15,16 October

Click here for more information or to download the conference registration brochure.

or Register online.

Lost Gardens of Sydney Exhibition

Museum of Sydney.

Saturday 9 August — Sunday 30 November, 2008.

Sydney’s vast sea of roofs belies its rich legacy of gardens and gardening. In every direction from the city, large estates and gardens have been subdivided and lost to our ever-increasing need for real estate. Lost gardens explores Sydney’s rich and diverse gardening heritage. It traces the rise and fall of a number of Sydney gardens and garden styles, from the native bush and significant early colonial gardens, to nurseries and the gardens of the rising middle class, to the small domestic gardens of the inter-war years, to corporate roof-top gardens and threatened gardens of today.

The exhibition is rich with paintings, drawings, photographs, plans, statuary, floral albums and botanical images, and will charm anyone with an interest in gardens and the environment. Curated by AGHS Chair Colleen Morris and sponsored in part by the Australian Garden History Society, this exhibition is to be complimented by a book of the same title. This publication will soon be on sale through the Society at a discounted price to members. Look out for the flyer in your next copy of Australian Garden History.

Lost Gardens of Sydney flier.

For information and related events visit: ww.hht.net.au.

Sydney Wild Flowers.
Marian Ellis Rowan, 1887
Rex Nan Kivell Collection,
National Library of Australia

Nina Crone Award for Australian Garden History Writing

To commemorate Nina Crone’s contribution to the Australian Garden History Society the Society is honoured to create the Nina Crone Award for Australian Garden History Writing.

The award of $1,000.00 plus certificate of recognition will be given for an original article of 1000–1500 words relating to Australian garden history.

The award is open to students nationally and is intended to encourage new and emerging scholars in the writing of Australian garden history and to recognize excellence in such writing.

The closing date for submissions is 31 July 2008.

Further details available on the Victorian Branch page or download document.

A Guide to Conserving and Interpreting Gardens in Western Australia

Launched in July this year this comprehensive guide compiled by John Viska with the assistance of Gillian Lilleyman and Elizabeth Hof, covers the five periods of garden design in Western Australia from 1826-1980. Extensive plant lists, design elements and typical layouts are all described in some detail, along with overviews of the social and cultural climate of the times.

Publication was greatly assisted by a grant from Lotterywest.

To purchase see the purchase form on this website.

From Sea to Scarp

Now available

Proceedings of the 26th Annual National Conference held in Perth WA in 2005. Cost $20.

To purchase online use the purchase form or download and post to the AGHS office.

A Gardener’s City

Canberra's Garden Heritage

Produced by the AGHS ACT/Monaro/Riverina Branch in conjunction with The Production Hub

Canberra is a garden in the broadest sense!

A Gardener's City: Canberra's Garden Heritage explores Canberra's development from a limestone plain to present issues confronting the city's gardeners.

This documentary film traces some very personal stories. There's taxi driver Horrie Cleaver, whose vegetable growing skills were legendary, Jim Mundey, who spent 46 years with Parks and Gardens, and Pam Greave, whose father Tom made it his life's mission to give Canberra gardeners a workable schedule for growing successful vegetables. Historic homesteads like Woden, where Edna Walling worked her magic, and the legacy of the Yarralumla Nursery are also part of this heritage.

While issues such as water availability, climatic challenges and development confront gardeners today, there's plenty of hope for the future. Canberrans dedication to their gardens all testify to the city's future as an urban forest and a national garden.

Now available on DVD or VHS Video

Special introductory price $39.95, AGHS members $34.95 plus postage and packaging

For more information

View a clip at www.the-hub.com.au/gallery.php by clicking on - A Gardener's City.

To order: download, complete & post

Studies in Australian Garden History

Volume 2

Edited by Max Bourke and Colleen Morris

Seven fully refereed articles make up a diverse, and stimulating collection of current research into the history of gardens, gardening, landscapes and culture – articles as diverse as the War efforts at vegetable gardening, to the “War of the Roses” in Canberra, from pictorial studies in the nineteenth century of the Dandenong Ranges to literary reflections of gardens.

To obtain your copy complete the purchase form, or call or email the AGHS office. Cost: $20.00 plus postage.

New Special Book Offers to AGHS Members

Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia by Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi. See flier

Under the Spell of the Ages: Australian Country Gardens by Trisha Dixon. See flier

La Trobe’s Jolimont: A Walk Around My Garden by Helen Botham. Published jointly by the La Trobe Society and the Australian Garden History Society. See flier

Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration by Richard Aitken. Published by MUP. With illustrations of extraordinary splendour and beauty. See flier

Call for input into a Research Register

One of the joys of AGHS is finding other members with like minds and interests. For some time the English Garden History Society has maintained a register of members's research interests, an invaluable tool to inform what research has been done, or is underway, on a wide range of garden history themes and topics and encourage sharing of ideas.

Members are free to search the register at www.gardenhistorysociety.org . Note the variation in methods (or even whether) researchers can be contacted by. The AGHS has been discussing with the English GHS the feasibility of combining the Register with additional entries from Australian members. This has advantages in making it a more representative international coverage of garden history, allowing cross-comparison of themes.

From consulting the Index of Australian Garden History it appears there is a wide range of completed research AGHS members have shown interest in since 1980. Recent themes arising have been 20th century garden history (as opposed to 19th or 18th), modern landscape design, native plant use, migrant, kitchen and community gardens.

The most sensible way to make this work is by each AGHS Branch nominating a mediator for members in their region/ state. This will be member's first contact, and the mediator will follow up enquiries for additions or alterations, check member's research interests are genuine, and pass them on to the GHS's coordinator who will amend the register. Contact your branch contact for more information on this matter.

GARDENS OF MEMORY PROJECT

Do you have memories of a garden that has been a special place for you? Garden history is not confined to large, grand or famous gardens. It includes the history of front gardens and back yards of suburbs, towns and farms all over the country.

The Gardens of Memory Project is a response to the changing way we use gardens.

We would like to find out what your garden, or a garden that was important to you, was like when you were growing up. In this way we will be able to capture a snapshot of gardens and how they were used and planted during much of the twentieth century.

For more information about the project and how to participate click here

Recent Issues of Australian Garden History

February/March/April 2008

November/December 2007/January 2008

September/October 2007

July/August 2007

Index opens up past issues

It's now easy to find an article, garden, or other gem in past issues of Australian Garden History with the Index to Volumes 1-15 of Australian Garden History.

Compiled by AGHS member Kirstie McRobert, this comprehensive index covers Australian Garden History from 1989-2004.

A printed version is available for $20.00 (including postage) from the AGHS office.

Don't despair if you find an article but don't have the issue. Back issues can be purchased using the purchase form or by contacting the AGHS office.

Associate YOUR name with the AGHS Website - see Sponsorship Guidelines

Contact Details

Head Office

Gate Lodge

100 Birdwood Avenue

Melbourne Victoria 3004

Phone: 03 9650 5043 or Tollfree 1800 678 446

Fax: 03 9650 8470

General Information: info@gardenhistorysociety.org.au

Journal: info@gardenhistorysociety.org.au

Webmaster: info@gardenhistorysociety.org.au

CURRENT ISSUE of the AGHS JOURNAL Australian Garden History Volume 19 Number 5 May/June 2008 In members letterboxes now! View article William Cobbett: cottager’s friend by Silas Clifford-Smith.
29th Annual National Conference Bowral, NSW 10-12 October 2008 The 29th Annual National Conference is to be held at Oxley College, Bowral in the beautiful Southern Highlands region of New South Wales. This three day conference will look at the distinct periods of garden and horticultural development in the Southern Highlands balancing a comprehensive lecture program with visits to significant gardens including Retford Park, Moidart, Shambala (formerley Kennerton Green) and Summerlees. The influence of families, the work of designers and the role of nurseries in this development will be explored as will the geography and the natural beauty of the environment. Peter Valder is sure to delight his audience at the optional conference dinner to be held at Milton Park An Optional Day on Monday 13 October will explore the South Coast whilst writer and photographer Trisha Dixon will conduct Pre and Post Conference Tours for those wanting to glimpse into some of the most historic cultural landscapes of the Taralga, Goulburn and Menangle districts. Pre Conference Tour 6,7,9 October Post Conference Tour 14,15,16 October Click here for more information or to download the conference registration brochure. or Register online.
Lost Gardens of Sydney Exhibition Museum of Sydney. Saturday 9 August — Sunday 30 November, 2008. Sydney’s vast sea of roofs belies its rich legacy of gardens and gardening. In every direction from the city, large estates and gardens have been subdivided and lost to our ever-increasing need for real estate. Lost gardens explores Sydney’s rich and diverse gardening heritage. It traces the rise and fall of a number of Sydney gardens and garden styles, from the native bush and significant early colonial gardens, to nurseries and the gardens of the rising middle class, to the small domestic gardens of the inter-war years, to corporate roof-top gardens and threatened gardens of today. The exhibition is rich with paintings, drawings, photographs, plans, statuary, floral albums and botanical images, and will charm anyone with an interest in gardens and the environment. Curated by AGHS Chair Colleen Morris and sponsored in part by the Australian Garden History Society, this exhibition is to be complimented by a book of the same title. This publication will soon be on sale through the Society at a discounted price to members. Look out for the flyer in your next copy of Australian Garden History. Lost Gardens of Sydney flier. For information and related events visit: ww.hht.net.au.	Sydney Wild Flowers. Marian Ellis Rowan, 1887 Rex Nan Kivell Collection, National Library of Australia
Nina Crone Award for Australian Garden History Writing To commemorate Nina Crone’s contribution to the Australian Garden History Society the Society is honoured to create the Nina Crone Award for Australian Garden History Writing. The award of $1,000.00 plus certificate of recognition will be given for an original article of 1000–1500 words relating to Australian garden history. The award is open to students nationally and is intended to encourage new and emerging scholars in the writing of Australian garden history and to recognize excellence in such writing. The closing date for submissions is 31 July 2008. Further details available on the Victorian Branch page or download document.
A Guide to Conserving and Interpreting Gardens in Western Australia Launched in July this year this comprehensive guide compiled by John Viska with the assistance of Gillian Lilleyman and Elizabeth Hof, covers the five periods of garden design in Western Australia from 1826-1980. Extensive plant lists, design elements and typical layouts are all described in some detail, along with overviews of the social and cultural climate of the times. Publication was greatly assisted by a grant from Lotterywest. To purchase see the purchase form on this website.
From Sea to Scarp Now available Proceedings of the 26th Annual National Conference held in Perth WA in 2005. Cost $20. To purchase online use the purchase form or download and post to the AGHS office.
A Gardener’s City Canberra's Garden Heritage Produced by the AGHS ACT/Monaro/Riverina Branch in conjunction with The Production Hub Canberra is a garden in the broadest sense! A Gardener's City: Canberra's Garden Heritage explores Canberra's development from a limestone plain to present issues confronting the city's gardeners. This documentary film traces some very personal stories. There's taxi driver Horrie Cleaver, whose vegetable growing skills were legendary, Jim Mundey, who spent 46 years with Parks and Gardens, and Pam Greave, whose father Tom made it his life's mission to give Canberra gardeners a workable schedule for growing successful vegetables. Historic homesteads like Woden, where Edna Walling worked her magic, and the legacy of the Yarralumla Nursery are also part of this heritage. While issues such as water availability, climatic challenges and development confront gardeners today, there's plenty of hope for the future. Canberrans dedication to their gardens all testify to the city's future as an urban forest and a national garden. Now available on DVD or VHS Video Special introductory price $39.95, AGHS members $34.95 plus postage and packaging For more information View a clip at www.the-hub.com.au/gallery.php by clicking on - A Gardener's City. To order: download, complete & post
Studies in Australian Garden History Volume 2 Edited by Max Bourke and Colleen Morris Seven fully refereed articles make up a diverse, and stimulating collection of current research into the history of gardens, gardening, landscapes and culture – articles as diverse as the War efforts at vegetable gardening, to the “War of the Roses” in Canberra, from pictorial studies in the nineteenth century of the Dandenong Ranges to literary reflections of gardens. To obtain your copy complete the purchase form, or call or email the AGHS office. Cost: $20.00 plus postage.
New Special Book Offers to AGHS Members *Reading the Garden: the Settlement of Australia* by Katie Holmes, Susan K. Martin & Kylie Mirmohamadi. See flier Under the Spell of the Ages: Australian Country Gardens by Trisha Dixon. See flier *La Trobe’s Jolimont: A Walk Around My Garden* by Helen Botham. Published jointly by the La Trobe Society and the Australian Garden History Society. See flier Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration by Richard Aitken. Published by MUP. With illustrations of extraordinary splendour and beauty. See flier
Call for input into a Research Register One of the joys of AGHS is finding other members with like minds and interests. For some time the English Garden History Society has maintained a register of members's research interests, an invaluable tool to inform what research has been done, or is underway, on a wide range of garden history themes and topics and encourage sharing of ideas. Members are free to search the register at www.gardenhistorysociety.org . Note the variation in methods (or even whether) researchers can be contacted by. The AGHS has been discussing with the English GHS the feasibility of combining the Register with additional entries from Australian members. This has advantages in making it a more representative international coverage of garden history, allowing cross-comparison of themes. From consulting the Index of Australian Garden History it appears there is a wide range of completed research AGHS members have shown interest in since 1980. Recent themes arising have been 20th century garden history (as opposed to 19th or 18th), modern landscape design, native plant use, migrant, kitchen and community gardens. The most sensible way to make this work is by each AGHS Branch nominating a mediator for members in their region/ state. This will be member's first contact, and the mediator will follow up enquiries for additions or alterations, check member's research interests are genuine, and pass them on to the GHS's coordinator who will amend the register. Contact your branch contact for more information on this matter.
GARDENS OF MEMORY PROJECT Do you have memories of a garden that has been a special place for you? Garden history is not confined to large, grand or famous gardens. It includes the history of front gardens and back yards of suburbs, towns and farms all over the country. The Gardens of Memory Project is a response to the changing way we use gardens. We would like to find out what your garden, or a garden that was important to you, was like when you were growing up. In this way we will be able to capture a snapshot of gardens and how they were used and planted during much of the twentieth century. For more information about the project and how to participate click here
Recent Issues of Australian Garden History February/March/April 2008 November/December 2007/January 2008 September/October 2007 July/August 2007 Index opens up past issues It's now easy to find an article, garden, or other gem in past issues of Australian Garden History with the Index to Volumes 1-15 of Australian Garden History. Compiled by AGHS member Kirstie McRobert, this comprehensive index covers Australian Garden History from 1989-2004. A printed version is available for $20.00 (including postage) from the AGHS office. Don't despair if you find an article but don't have the issue. Back issues can be purchased using the purchase form or by contacting the AGHS office. Associate YOUR name with the AGHS Website - see Sponsorship Guidelines
Contact Details Head Office Gate Lodge 100 Birdwood Avenue Melbourne Victoria 3004 Phone: 03 9650 5043 or Tollfree 1800 678 446 Fax: 03 9650 8470 General Information: info@gardenhistorysociety.org.au Journal: info@gardenhistorysociety.org.au Webmaster: info@gardenhistorysociety.org.au

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