Australian Garden History Society

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

Tas Branch: Spring in the Georgian towns of Oatlands and Kempton

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 […]

Tas Branch: Christmas Garden Party

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 […]

Tasmania Branch: Walk the Avenue

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 […]

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 […]

Tasmania Branch: Convict Gardeners & their Gardens

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 […]

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: […]