Volition / Anne Latreille -- Ideas / Michael Leunig -- Emotions / Paul Fox -- European imagination (1800s-1810s) -- Adapting to the antipodes (1820s-1830s) -- The emigrant gardener (1840s-1850s) -- Utility and ornament (1860s-1870s) -- Rus in urbe (1880s-1890s) -- Nationalism and naturalism (1900s-1910s) -- Gay abandon (1920s-1930s) -- Velvet lawn (1940s-1950s) -- Living in the environment (1960s-1970s) -- Whitefella dreaming (1980s-1990s) -- Gardening in the republican manner (2000-)
Summary
"Gardenesque is a wonderful ramble through more than 200 years of Australian gardening and garden making. Richard Aitken takes the reader on a visual tour of stunning images from the State Library of Victoria's extensive collections ...". "The diversity of Australia's gardening heritage is revealed in selections from a wide range of books, pamphlets, plans, paintings and prints".--BOOKJACKET
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references: pages 212-221