Planting Dreams

Name: Planting Dreams
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781742234649
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Shaping Australian Gardens

By Richard Aitken

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Planting Dreams by Richard Aitken delves into the rich history and creativity behind Australian gardens. The book explores influences from Indigenous land management to early European gardens, and the evolution through modernist styles. Featuring a striking collection of art, photographs, and prints from the State Library of New South Wales, it celebrates the unique and diverse culture of Australian garden making.
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This book will appeal to gardening enthusiasts, historians, and those interested in art and Australian cultural heritage.

'A garden should ... be just a little too big to keep the whole cultivated. Then it gives it a chance to go a little wild in spots' Edna Walling, landscape designer

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'A garden should ... be just a little too big to keep the whole cultivated. Then it gives it a chance to go a little wild in spots' — Edna Walling, landscape designer

Waratah or wattle? Chrysanthemum or rose? Planting Dreams celebrates the artistry and imagination that have shaped Australian gardens. Respected garden historian Richard Aitken explores the environmental and social influences that have helped produce our unique gardening culture—from Indigenous land management and the earliest European garden at Farm Cove, to the potted plants and besser block screens of mid-twentieth century modernist design and beyond.

Drawing on the unparalleled collections of the State Library of New South Wales, Planting Dreams showcases 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.

'An elegant look at the miraculous gardening evolution' — Indira Naidoo, author of The Edible Balcony

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781742234649

Publisher: NewSouth Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 September 2016

Country: Australia

Imprint: NewSouth Publishing

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 25.0mm

Width: 228.0mm

Height: 281.0mm

Weight: 1400g

Pages: 304

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Home & Garden Non-Fiction Richard Aitken

About the Author

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.