Pamela Jellie
Chair:
Pamela Jellie
Vice-Chair:
Anne Vale
Treasurer:
Brian Monger
Secretary/Minute Secretary
Laurie Krauss
Web Secretary:
Bronwen Merrett
NMC Representative:
Pamela Jellie
Committee:John Dwyer
Bonnie Gelman
Anthony Menhennitt
Kathy Wright
Bishopscourt: Third Wednesday of every month
The Australian Garden History Society maintains this garden at 120 Clarendon Street, East Melbourne and welcomes new volunteers. For further information contact helenpage@bigpond.com
Abbotsford Convent Gardens: First Wednesday of every month
Garden volunteers meet on the first Wednesday and the third Saturday of every month except in January. Starting time is 9.30 am, morning tea is provided, BYO lunch and gardening gloves. Assistance in the garden is most welcome. Contact: Pamela Jellie email pdjellie@hotmail.com.
The Nina Crone Award is granted annually to encourage students in the writing of Australian garden history. The award comprises a prize of $1,000 and a certificate – and the prospect of publication in the Society’s journal, Australian Garden History.
Papers should be for original research relating to Australian garden history and should be limited to 1,000 to 1,500 words. Photographs and illustrations may be included.
Closing date for final submissions is 30 November 2010.
Submissions can be sent electronically to info@gardenhistorysociety.org.au or by post to Australian Garden History Society, 100 Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne 3004.
Eligibility and basis of submissions: The award is open to students only, nationally. Articles must be on a topic related to Australian garden history and must not have been previously published. All associated research must have been completed within the last two years.
Evaluation criteria
Does the article demonstrate excellence in research and writing having regard to:
Application of sound research methodology
Effectiveness of communication
Judging procedures
We are pleased to again present an interesting range of speakers. Please note that the programme for the lecture series has been amended from that shown in our last newsletter. AGHS committee member, lecturer and researcher - Anne Vale - led off the series in June and Robin Marks, whose mother was a close friend of Winifred Wadell, will now speak on August 17 following the AGM.
Tuesday August 17 (AGM 6.15, Lecture 6.30 pm) - Robin Marks
From Heads Nook to the High Plains: Winifred Waddell & The Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria
Born at Heads Nook near Carlise in 1884, and then migrating to Australia to take up a teaching post at Merton Hall in 1916, Winifred Waddell was influential in the preservation of Australian native plants in the 20th century. She developed a love for these plants whilst riding and painting in Australian Alps in the 1920s.
Realising the fragile nature of their existence, she promoted widely and tirelessly the urgent need to preserve them, initially through the Field Naturalists Club of Victoria and finally by forming the Native Plants Preservation Society of Victoria in 1952. The Society established sanctuaries for native plants throughout Victoria.
She wrote extensively on native plants, which were published in book form as the Wildflower Diary by the Society after she died. In 1964 she was awarded an MBE and the Natural History Medallion of the FNC.
Enquiries: Pamela Jellie: 9836 1881 pdjellie@hotmail.com.
Venue: Mueller Hall, The Herbarium, Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra
Cost per lecture: $15 members AGHS, $20 Non-members, $5 Students-with student card.
Garden Cuttings – Articles for The Age by Nina Crone.
The AGHS has supported the production of this book, in which the articles Nina wrote for The Age between 1982 and 1997 under the pseudonym ‘Alison Dalrymple’ are republished.
Most of the articles were written while Nina was Principal of Melbourne Church of England Girls Grammar School, the time in her life when she began to appreciate the beauties and joys of plants and gardens world-wide. Her visits to the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens, just across the road from the school, and her visits to national and international gardens, were an outlet from her busy professional life, and became the basis from which her later editorship of Australian Garden History took inspiration.
See attached flyer and order form.
Copies available from Melbourne Girls Grammar School, 86 Anderson St, South Yarra, 3141, fax 9866 1119.
Profits go to Melbourne Girls Grammar School, to set up a ‘Nina Crone Prize for Excellence in History’.
