SA Branch: Branch Christmas party & garden visit
Enjoy a relaxed late arvo garden party with author and gardener Christine McCabe tour of her garden at Blakiston, near Littlehampton. BYO food. Further details to come.
Enjoy a relaxed late arvo garden party with author and gardener Christine McCabe tour of her garden at Blakiston, near Littlehampton. BYO food. Further details to come.
Captain Charles Sturt Museum at Sturt's Cottage The Grange. Hear a talk on Sturt's interest in botany and plant collecting, see the new displays and enjoy afternoon tea. Address: 39D Jetty Street, Grange (adjacent to Grange Primary School) Cost: Members […]
Walk around the historic property (good walking shoes required), followed by lunch at the restaurant with shared fresh platters or similar. Price to be confirmed. Venue: Glen Ewin Estate, 43 Lower Hermitage Rd, Lower Hermitage SA 5131 Bookings: contact Richard […]
Eryldene will host an online event on 30th March 2023, exploring how historic gardens are building resilience to climate change. Speakers from the UK, USA, Australia and South Africa will share local and global garden management experiences with an interactive […]
The tour will explore the Park's historical timeline and show how it has adapted over time and influenced cemetery development, so that Centennial Park became Australia's first ‘park like’ garden cemetery. Venue: 760 Goodwood Road, Pasadena SA 5042. Meet at the Administration […]
As part of the SA History Festival, garden historian, Trevor Nottle, is presenting an illustrated talk: 'A wondrous plant connection - the Yokohama Nursery.' Adelaide and Stirling are a long way from Japan, yet there is a strong link that’s […]
‘Love of a crowd, a band, and “a gardens’’’: Music, Recreation, and Gardens at Nineteenth-Century International Exhibitions Winter online lecture by Sarah Kirby International exhibitions were some of the most significant cultural events of the nineteenth century, drawing together displays […]
Outline of Talk A survey of the life and work of perhaps the greatest NSW landscape designer. Unlike Edna Walling, with a monthly plan and column in a popular magazine, Sorensen put little on paper, preferring working in 3D on […]
Winter online lecture by Dr David Marsh, UK What do you know about gnomes? Are they different to dwarves? Or to Elves? Goblins? Pixies? Leprechauns, Boggarts? Or any of the other small folk who live in our imagination and stories…and […]
Overgrowing Canberra Speaker: Julian Raxworthy – Landscape architecture and gardener A core part of the Garden City model is to create a street wide, tree-lined feel by requiring houses to be set well back from the street, visually co-opting residents’ […]
The SA Branch AGM will be held at Glen Ewin Estate on Sunday 24th September at 11.30am, 43 Lower Hermitage Road, Lower Hermitage, SA 5131, followed by lunch and a walk around the historic garden, which dates from 1843. See: www.glenewinestate.com.au for […]
AGHS Conference 2023 - 29 Sep to 1 Oct 2023 - Ipswich, QLD - Digging into the past – above and below the Limestone Hills
Presented by Seamus O'Brien, Head Gardener National Botanic Gardens of Ireland. Kilmacurragh is a 17th century estate in East County Wicklow and for several centuries was seat of the Acton family. This talk traces the evolution of the estate and […]
Join us at Government House for Lunch on the Lawns on Friday 3rd November, 12 noon - 2 pm. Free Entry. Live Music. AGHS members plan to meet at noon inside the Main Gate (corner of North Terrace and King […]
Join us for afternoon drinks on Sunday 10th December. Venue to be confirmed. Please save the date.
Meet for coffee at the Adelaide Botanic Gardens and visit the Museum of Economic Botany to view Dr Thorton’s Temple of Flora exhibition. Please let Richard Heathcote know you will be there, so that he can watch out for you […]
Visit to Belair State Flora Nursery & Old Government House garden, hopefully with afternoon tea. Old Government House is open on the 1st & 3rd Sundays of the month for pre-booked teas & tours. State Flora is open 9am-5pm weekdays, […]
You are invited to our annual Winter webinar and fundraiser for the Nina Crone Writing Fund Big Hearted Gardens: Community and Care at the Melbourne Flower & Garden Show Join landscape architect Emma Sheppard-Simms and go behind the scenes of the Melbourne International Flower and […]
Winter online zoom lecture by Dr Raymond Madden, Senior Lecturer, Anthropologist, in the School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University James Dawson, (1806-1900), was a prominent pastoralist in the colonial history of western Victoria. In 1881 he published, ' Australian Aborigines: […]
44th AGHS Annual Conference Hesperia: Looking West Bunbury, Western Australia Friday 18th, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th October 2024. Optional Day Monday 21st October. Pre-conference Tour Tuesday 15th October to Thursday 17th October Leaves Perth and arrives in Bunbury […]