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Each year the AGHS hold a national conference in a different region within Australia. The first conference was held in Melbourne in 1980 where the Society was formed. Since then Conferences have been held in the Blue Mountains and Sydney in NSW, Melbourne, Canberra, Hobart, Adelaide and Mt Gambier in South Australia, Toowoomba in Queensland and Perth in Western Australia.
Members and non members are invited to attend one and a half days of lectures by stimulating international and national speakers who are specialists in their fields, including garden design, architecture, garden history and cultural history.
The program always includes a day and a half of visits to many wonderful historic and contemporary public and private gardens. Extra days of garden visits are usually offered as an optional extra.
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The focus of this year’s Annual National Conference will be key issues concerning the future of Australian landscapes. Spring in Albury is a great time to be in rural Australia and the conference program will maximize exposure to both its beauties and the environmental issues it faces.
Prominent speakers will deal with issues ranging from water management in the Murray Darling Basin, to inland living and gardening, to the issue of invasive species and their impact on the environment. Private gardeners, writers and artists will add their experiences of gardening in the region.
Following a day and a half of lectures, conference delegates will visit gardens around Albury on Saturday afternoon and on Sunday, gardens in the Holbrook and the Walla Walla area. An Optional Day on Monday features visits to gardens south of the river.
Booked Out. Only vacancies for the Optional Day Monday 22 October still available.
A three day Post Conference Tour 23-25 October, organised by noted garden writer and photographer, Trisha Dixon, will take delegates to a diverse range of fascinating historic private properties along the Murrumbidgee and north to Young.
Three day Post Conference Tour sold out
For more details see the Registration Brochure.
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Two hundred and thirty-eight delegates gathered at the National Wine Centre in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens on Friday 20 October for the opening of the 27th Annual National Conference. The theme was Adelaide’s Botanical Riches: keeping history in garden design.
Three most stimulating days followed. Delegates were treated to a day and a half of thought-provoking lectures and a day and a half of visits to historic gardens in and around Adelaide and the Adelaide hills. As an extension to the conference many people took up the optional day on 23 October visiting historic gardens in the Barossa Valley and enjoying the three-day post-conference tour in the Barossa and Clare Valleys.
Highlights of the conference included dinner in the awe-inspiring setting of the Mortlock Library, the launch of Richard Aitken’s latest book Botanical Riches by Lady Mary Downer in the beautiful surrounds of Carrick Hill and viewing the exhibitions associated with the book.
Fuller reports on aspects of the conference will feature in upcoming AGHS journals and a selection will be included on this website.
Beautiful Adelaide and its botanical riches: Max Bourke takes a light-hearted look back at the AGHS Annual Conference.
All options of this conference were fully subscribed long before the cut-off date. To ensure your place in the 28th Annual National Conference in 2007 in Albury look out for registration forms next May and register early.
TOURS
The AGHS regularly conducts specialised tours throughout Australia. The Society always endeavours to engage leaders who are knowledgeable and highly skilled in conducting tours.
These tours are wonderful opportunities to explore particular areas or themes in garden history and visit gardens rarely open to the public. Numbers are limited giving participants every chance to interact with leaders, garden owners and other participants.
Each year the AGHS holds a tour in association with the National Conference.
From time to time AGHS Branches conduct excellent tours in regional areas.
Look through the activities under Branch
pages to find one which may interest you.
2007 POST CONFERENCE TOUR
23-25 October
A three day tour, starting and finishing in Albury, with two nights at the Federation Motor Inn at Young. Trisha Dixon will continue the theme of the Annual Conference – Meandering About the Murray – taking participants to a diverse range of fascinating historic private properties along the Murrumbidgee and north to Young.
Cost:
AGHS Members (double or twin share) $660
Non-members $700
Single Supplement $210
For those booking for the tour and not attending the Annual Conference bookings open 25 June 2007
Bookings can be made on the 2007 Annual Conference Registration Brochure