Australian Garden History Society

SA Branch: Centennial Park Tour

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 […]

SA Branch: A wondrous plant connection – the Yokohama Nursery

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 […]

SA Branch: AGM

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 […]

2023 Annual National Conference

Ipswich Civic Centre 50 Nicholas Street, Ipswich, Queensland, Australia

AGHS Conference 2023 - 29 Sep to 1 Oct 2023 - Ipswich, QLD - Digging into the past – above and below the Limestone Hills

SA Branch: November lunch on the lawns at Government House

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 […]

South Australia Branch: Temple of Flora exhibition

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 […]

Zoom lecture: Big Hearted Gardens

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 […]

Zoom lecture: Gardens and land management in Western Victoria

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: […]

SA Branch: Hidden Gardens of SA

Visit four spectacular private hidden gardens of SA open for one day only! This is a unique opportunity not to be missed as these awe-inspiring, large private hills gardens have never been open to the public before. Book via: the […]