Australian Garden History Society

Sydney Branch: Leslie Wilkinson’s career and garden making

Professor Leslie Wilkinson on the ship Naldera, NSW, c.1930 (NLA: Fairfax archive, glass plate negative. PIC Row 14/7/5 #PIC/15611/8409)   An Illustrated Talk by Flavia Scardamaglia. Heritage consultant Flavia Scardamaglia gives a re-introduction to Leslie Wilkinson, best-known as the first […]

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: […]