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 […]
This weekend event combines the first lecture in our 2023 Winter Lecture Series with visits to four properties in the Campbell Town, Cressy and Longford areas exploring the theme of how Tasmanian rural properties are adapting to the changing landscape […]
‘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 […]
Using Convict Records to Explore Garden History Presented by Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart, Faculty of Humanities, Arts, Law and Education, University of New England. Over 600 convict gardeners were transported to Tasmania. Thanks to the painstaking digitisation of the UNESCO Memory […]
Following the AGM of the Tasmanian branch of the AGHS, Anne McConnell, a Hobart-based heritage practitioner for some thirty years, will discuss the cultural landscape values of Cambria, considered one of the most significant heritage estates on the East Coast. […]
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’ […]
AGHS Conference 2023 - 29 Sep to 1 Oct 2023 - Ipswich, QLD - Digging into the past – above and below the Limestone Hills
The day includes tours of four fascinating gardens, each with individual highlights, including dry stone walls constructed by the owners and a reimagining of a nineteenth century church garden. Old Kempton Distillery, Kempton - We will meet here (24 […]
AGHS members & partners are invited to the last AGHS event for 2023, visiting two gardens in the Richmond & Tea Tree areas, & finishing with a Christmas Garden party ……. champagne anyone? Uplands Stables, Cambridge, an 1820’s converted sandstone […]
The Soldiers’ Memorial Avenue forms part of the Queens Domain in Hobart. It is an avenue planted to commemorate soldiers, mainly from Hobart, who died in the Great War (WW1) 1914-1918. In all there are 536 individually named trees. Walk […]
Longford House People, places and stories combines the first of our 2024 Winter Lectures with visits to four historic properties in the Longford & Launceston areas. Saturday’s program commences at 11am in Longford with a tour of the extensive 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 […]
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart & Ann Cripps present "Convict Gardeners & their Gardens" in the Chapel at the Hobart Penitentiary followed by guided tours of this historic convict site built in the 1830s. The interactive Convict Memorial with digitised records of 75,00 […]
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: […]
Of all the regions of southeastern Australia that Eugene von Guérard (1811-1901) visited none had a more profound impact on him and his career than Victoria’s Western District. His portrayals of its expansive volcanic plains, its landmark scoria cones and […]
Speaker: Adj Professor Margo Ngawa Neale The Joint Annual Lecture of the ACT Monaro Riverina Branch of the AGHS and the Friends of the NLA. Land is viewed as ‘Country’ in Aboriginal Australia. It is a worldview that embodies a […]
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 […]
Members and partners are invited to the AGHS TAS Christmas Garden Party. The afternoon begins at Summerhome, 2 Hopkins St West Moonah, with both the house and garden open, before moving to Runnymede, 61 Bay Rd New Town, where a […]
