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Planting dreams : shaping Australian gardens / Richard Aitken.

Planting dreams : shaping Australian gardens / Richard Aitken.
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ISBN 9781742234649 :
174223464X
Author Aitken, Richard (author.)
Title Planting dreams : shaping Australian gardens / Richard Aitken.
Other title Shaping Australian gardens
Publisher and/or associated date/s Sydney, NSW : NewSouth Publishing, 2016.
©2016
Description vii, 247 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits, facsimiles ; 29 cm.
Note Published in association with the State Library of NSW in conjunction with the exhibition 'Planting dreams: shaping Australian gardens' held at the State Library of NSW 3 September 2016 - 15 January 2017.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-240) and index.
Summary 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.
Subjects Landscape gardening -- Australia
Gardens -- Australia -- History
Gardening -- Australia -- History
Gardens -- Australia -- Design
Botanical gardens -- Australia
Call number 2017.164
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A00878972 2017.164
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