Australia's Timeless GardensAustralia's Timeless Gardens is a celebration of private gardening in Australia since 1788. Presenting more than 100 paintings, engravings, sketches and photographs from the collections of the National Library of Australia, it offers a pictorial tour through two centuries of gardening history. |
Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | |
INTRODUCTION | |
NOTE ON PLANT NAMES | |
CHAPTER 1 The First Garden | |
CHAPTER 2 The Garden Grows | |
CHAPTER 3 Through the Artists Eye | |
CHAPTER 4 Back to Basics | |
CHAPTER 5 The Garden Designer | |
CHAPTER 6 An Evolution | |
GLOSSARY | |
BACK COVER | |
Common terms and phrases
artist Artist'sEye Australian Capital Territory Australian garden Australian plants Back to Basics Binnum bitou bush Botanic Gardens botanical names Canberra Capital Territory Photograph cm Rex Nan Collection The Garden colony cottage garden decorative drive Edna Walling England English engraving established eucalypts Evolution exotic plants fashionable flowers front garden fruit trees garden beds Garden Designer garden style gardenesque style Government House grass hand coloured aquatint Hardy Wilson Harold Cazneaux hedges Hobart Home house and garden influence Jekyll Landscape Australia magazine lawn Lycett Melbourne Nan Kivell Collection native and exotic native plants nature strip Norfolk Island pine nursery ofthe paintings palms Parramatta path Paul Sorensen Photograph by Trisha Picket fences Pictorial Collection picturesque style Port Jackson Rex Nan Kivell River roses settlement settlers shows shrubs South Wales Photograph surrounded Sydney Cove Tasmania terrace theArtist'sEye TheFirst Garden Town Trisha Dixon vegetable garden verandah Victoria Photograph View watercolour Watkin Tench William Guilfoyle