Description

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Examining individual gardens, both public and private, this book illuminates the meaning and uses of gardens and gardening in Australia from white settlement to the late 20th century. Exploring memory and belonging, domestication and civilization, nationalism and identity, the themes are woven into a compelling narrative around gardens and landscape. The guide also explains how gardens have helped make meaning and "home "in a new place, enabled connections with the Australian environment or rejection of it, and facilitated the development of friendships and social connections.

About the Author

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Katie Holmes is an Associate Professor of History at La Trobe University. She has published widely on gardening in Australia. Her book Spaces in Her Day was shortlisted for the NSW and Victorian Premiers' Awards and she has co-edited other anthologies, including Freedom Bound. Susan K. Martin is an Associate Professor in English at La Trobe University. Her writing on Australian literature, culture and garden history has been featured in many books, including The Oxford Literary History of Australia and Imagining Australia, and journals such as Postcolonial Studies and Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. Kylie Mirmohamadi is an historian who writes on Australian garden history, and Australian history and culture. With the other writers of this book, she co-edited Green Pens, a volume of Australian garden writing.