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Planting Dreams: Shaping Australian gardens

English

By (author): Richard Aitken

Cottage to mansion, balcony to botanic garden, Planting Dreams will change the way you think about Australian gardens.

Acclaimed garden historian Richard Aitken explores the fascinating environmental and social influences that have helped produce a unique gardening culture in Australia- from thwarted attempts to 'tame' the environment to the streamlined angles of modernist design.

Drawing on the unparalleled collections of the State Library of New South Wales,Planting Dreamsshowcases Australian garden making in all its richness and diversity through a stunning and intriguing mix of paintings, sketches, photographs, and prints, from popular culture to high art. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 230 x 280mm
  • Publication Date: 01 Sep 2016
  • Publisher: NewSouth Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: Australia
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781742234649

About Richard Aitken

Richard Aitken is recognised internationally for his expertise in the field of garden history. He has been a long-time editor of Australian Garden History the quarterly journal of the Australian Garden History Society and his books include The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens (2002) Gardenesque (2004) Botanical Riches (2006) Seeds of Change (2006) The Garden of Ideas (2010) and Cultivating Modernism (2013).Aitken has curated several major exhibitions and undertaken numerous conservation plans for significant gardens throughout Australia including government house gardens in Sydney Melbourne and Hobart; botanic gardens in Sydney Melbourne Adelaide and regional Victoria; and many other public and private gardens.

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