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'Celebrating generations of change in the country's landscapes . . . '
The Australian Garden History Society offers its members and the general public a range of quality periodicals, occasional papers, books and booklets on the history of Australian gardens.
'Recalling past pleasures of association . . .'
The Proceedings of some Annual National Conferences are also available.
'Assisting scholars and students with current information and recent research on Australia's garden history . . . '
The web-site provides the contents of recent journals, abstracts of feature articles, and some articles in full. A comprehensive index of material included in the journal is available on-line or can be ordered in hard-copy form from the AGHS Office.
NEW DVD
A Gardener’s City: Canberra’s Garden Heritage
Produced by the AGHS ACT/Monaro/Riverina Branch in conjunction with The Production Hub
Foremost Australian landscape architects, historians, educators and writers tell the amazing story of how Canberra, the Garden City, was created and pay tribute to the initiatives of both public and private gardeners as our cameras take you on a tour of one of the worlds most beautiful cities in full autumn colour.
Now available on DVD or VHS
Cost: $39.95. AGHS members: $34.95. Postage $7.95
For more information or to view a clip at www.the-hub.com.au/gallery.php by clicking on ‘A Gardener’s City’.
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Australian Garden History
Containing feature articles on Australian gardens, book reviews, reports of garden visits and tours, and an Australia-wide calendar of forthcoming activities this 23-page journal is mailed to all financial members of the Australian Garden History Society 5 times a year - in March, May, July, September and November. Editor: Genevieve Jacobs
Index to Volumes 1–15 of Australian Garden History. A printed version of the Index is available for $20.00 (including postage) from the AGHS office.
Studies in Australian Garden History
The first edition of Studies in Australian Garden History was published by the Society in July 2003. A fully refereed journal meeting high academic standards, contains papers by some of Australia's well known researchers and new writers. The articles are around 6,000 words each with extensive illustrations so deal in considerable depth with the topics covered. The first edition deals with issues across the spectrum of gardens and landscapes and their intersection with cultural and art history as well as issues to do with the management of recent gardens of significance. The Journal is supported by the Kindred Spirits Fund of the Society and edited by Max Bourke and Colleen Morris.
Volume One is out of print. Studies in Australian Garden History
Volume Two OUT NOW!
This second volume contains illustrated papers by John Dwyer, Matt Morris, Deborah van der Plaat and Catherine De Lorenzo, Rebecca Jones and Janice Chesters, David Jones, Susan K Martin and Dianne Firth.
Papers explore subjects from gardens in nineteenth century Australian fiction, weeds in the colonial garden, to early Australian Organic gardening and the recent Wars of the Roses at Old Parliament House, Canberra.
To obtain your copy complete the purchase form, or call or email the AGHS office. Cost: $20.00 plus postage.
New!
Botanical Riches: Stories of Botanical Exploration by Richard Aitken
Published by MUP
With illustrations of extraordinary splendour and beauty.
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Australia’s Quarter Acre: The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden by Peter Timms
Published by The Miegunyah Press
Special Discount Offer to Australian Garden History Members
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New!
The Oxford Companion to the Garden
Edited by Patrick Taylor
Published by Oxford University Press
Special Discount Offer to Australian Garden History Members
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New!
Visions and Voices
Celebrating 25 Years of the Australian Garden History Society
Where have working bees been held in NSW?
Who wrote Kindred Spirits?
What was the theme of the national conference in 1996?
How did AGHS come into being?
When were conferences held in Perth?
In which state will you find Jimbour House?
How many times has Studies in Australian Garden History been published?
For everything you want to know about AGHS get your copy of Visions & Voices: The Australian Garden History Society 1980-2005.
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La Trobe’s Jolimont: A Walk Around My Garden by Helen Botham
Published jointly by the La Trobe Society and the Australian Garden History Society
Special Discount Offer to Australian Garden History Members
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Remembered Gardens by Holly Kerr Forsyth
Eight Women & Their Visions of an Australian Landscape
Published by MUP
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Gardenesque. Celebration of Australian Gardening by Richard
Aitken
Published by MUP
Special Discount Offer to Australian Garden History Members
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens
Now recognised as the premier reference book on Australian garden history this impressive volume was published by the AGHS in association with Oxford University Press in 2002. Editors: Richard Aitken & Michael Looker
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Kindred Spirits; a Botanical Correspondence
A well-researched and elegantly illustrated account of the correspondence between Jean Galbraith and Joan Law-Smith, two notable plantswomen from opposite sides of Victoria. Written by Anne Latreille, former editor of the gardening section of the Age newspaper.
Planting the Nation
Published in 2001 to celebrate the centenary of Australian Federation this collection of essays from around Australia discusses Australia's gardens and landscapes between 1890 and 1914. It received a Merit Award from the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects. The citation read
This readable and interesting book is a valuable addition to landscape history in |
BOOKLETS ON HERITAGE GARDENS
Published by the Victorian Branch - 12 page colour leaflets
Published by the ACT/Monaro/Riverina Branch - 14 page booklets
MISCELLANEOUS
Recording Gardens
An invaluable do-it-yourself guide for the amateur gardener who wishes to measure and draw a garden. This 16-page booklet based on an Australian Garden History Society seminar, includes:
Written by architect and landscape architect Richard Ratcliffe and published by AGHS in association with The Mulini Press.
1994 - The Changing Landscape: The Garden in the Landscape
Proceedings of the 15th Annual National Conference, Melbourne 21-23 October 1994
1995 - From wilderness to Garden: Early Colonial Gardens - Their Future?
Proceedings of the 16th Annual National Conference, Sydney
1997 - The City as Garden
Proceedings of the 18th Annual National Conference, Canberra, 25-28 April 1997
1998 - Gardening in a Mediterranean Climate
Proceedings of the 19th Annual National Conference, Fremantle,
1999 - The Changing Rural Landscape - Gardens, Vineyards, Forests
Proceedings of the 20th Annual National Conference, Mount Gambier, South Australia,
5-7 October, 1999
2000 - Richness in Diversity - from Grasslands to Rainforest, from Stonewalls to Potagers
Proceedings of the 21st Annual National Conference, Southern Highlands, NSW,
3-6 November 2000
2003 - 'Tropical Pleasures': A Focus on Queensland Gardens
Queensland Review
Proceedings of the 24th Annual National Conference, Brisbane, Queensland 11-13 July 2003
2004 - Browned Off: Old Gardens in the New World.
Proceedings of the 25th Annual National Conference, Sydney, NSW, 14-16 October 2004
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