Tas Branch: Winter lecture
Catherine Shields, landscape designer, will speak on the design of the garden at Patterdale. Venue: Battery Point Community Hall.
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ACT Monaro Riverina Branch: Lecture with Trisha Dixon: Spirit of the Garden
Trisha will talk on her latest book Spirit of the Garden. Trisha is well known to AGHS members and in her talk will explore the relationship that exists between ourselves, our gardens and the natural landscape. Her message is the […]
Webinar: Impressionists in their Gardens – living light and colour
This lecture via Zoom explores gardens through the senses of the Impressionists from three continents – Europe, North America and Australia - enjoying the essentially similar pleasures of the garden but engaging with the light from their skies in order […]
Webinar: Beyond the lawn – Lawns in New England gardens and the tools used
A digital webinar via Zoom presented by Bill Oates. Cost: $10 members; $15 non-members; students $5. Book at: Trybooking.
Southern Highlands Branch: First Winter Seminar
Venue: The Hermitage, Old South Road, Mittagong Cost: AGHS Members $25, non-members $35. Booking: Details on page 8 of Inflorescence May 2021. Bookings will close June 7 (not June 14) as stated in Inflorescence.
SA Branch: Lecture – “Jean-Louis Edouard Bourbaud, French wine expert and horticulturist in 19th century SA
Lecture by Emeritus Professor Barbara Santich, renowned food historian, author and lover of all things French. Professor Santich spent several years living in France in the late ‘70s, and wrote a memoir about that time called ‘Wild Asparagus, Wild Strawberries’. […]
Webinar: Bory Latour-Marliac – the source of water lilies before and beyond Monet
This lecture will be held via Zoom. Long before Mendel’s work was known, Bory Latour-Marliac (1830-1911) engineered daring water lily couplings with consummate skill, meticulous care and acute observation. His previously unrecorded letters reveal a horticultural world wide web into […]
Webinar with Rosemary Purdie: The Blooming Simpson – a Botanist’s Paradise
Rosemary will recount one of her plant collecting expeditions. Rosemary trained as a plant ecologist, and in a variety of positions, has been involved in helping to describe Australia’s biodiversity. She has contributed to many publications, including the recently published […]
Tas Branch: Winter lecture
Helen Page, Melbourne horticulturalist, will speak on cemetery landscapes. Venue: Battery Point Community Hall.
Qld Branch: North Queensland Winter Tour to Mackay Region
Itinerary includes visit to Greenmount Homestead to inspect the Queensland Branch project for 40th year AGHS celebrations. Visits to Private and Public Gardens and a trip to a prominent cattle property. Further information: email annwegener@me.com.
Southern Highlands Branch: Coach Trip to E G Waterhouse Camellia Gardens and Bare Island
Cost: $80 per person. Bookings have now closed.
WA Branch: AGM
More information will be provided closer to the date.
Tas Branch: Winter lecture and AGM
Advance notice! Venue: Battery Point Community Hall.
Southern Highlands Branch: AGM & Second Winter Seminar
The AGM will now be an online event. Please advise those who wish to be connected into Zoom to contact Jenny Woodwell on woodwell@optusnet.com.au by Friday August 20.
2021 Annual National Conference
The Australian Garden History Society is excited to be bringing landscape history to life at our 2021 conference. And, for the first time, we will be streaming the conference to you virtually. Virtual attendance will allow you to enjoy the […]
Webinar: ACT Monaro Riverina Branch AGM and talk by Greg Johnson on A Year in Our COVID Garden
The AGM will take place from 5.30–6pm and will be followed by the talk Greg Johnson grows rare and unusual plants, especially bulbs and perennials that like Canberra. But, gardeners always try to stretch the climate boundaries! Immediately after the […]
Victoria Branch: AGM and online lecture
The AGM will precede the Lecture. AGM details will appear in the Spring Newsletter. Lecture: The past, present and future of University of Melbourne's System Garden By Tim Uebergang Tim Uebergang will share with us his perspective on the history […]
Tasmania Branch: Garden visits in the South
This day of garden visits south of Hobart includes three very different gardens and landscapes: a historic mountain retreat, a productive garden and a contemporary suburban garden. We begin at the grand gardens of High Peak on the slopes of […]
Victoria Branch: Book launch: Titanga
1875 photo of Titanga - from the Lang’s family album (Copyright Private Collection). Note change of date. Now 7th November. The Lang Family and the Camperdown Botanic Gardens and Arboretum Trust invite you to celebrate the launch of the […]
Webinair: Spanish garden history, managing change: lessons for a drying Southern Australia
The home of Mediterranean garden leader, Heidi & Enrique Gildemeister. Image © Stuart Read. Presented by Stuart Read. Spain faces similar environmental challenges to us – affluence, urbanisation, high migration and consumption and scant water. Its range of climates give parallels […]