Adelaide Hills Gardens
Adelaide Hills Gardens

Author: Christine McCabe

Publisher:

Published: 2022-02-22

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781760762308

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The Adelaide Hills charts the evolution of gardening in Australia. And though anchored deeply in history, many of its gardens have their sights set firmly on the future. Old oak, elm and ash trees, planted long ago after memories of English gardens, live alongside stringybark eucalypts and native bush gullies, fruit-bearing orchards and wineries. All have thrived on the region's good rainfall, cool climate and natural springs. Over time, the Hills has weathered storms, droughts and fires. In response to these changing conditions, gardens, too, have changed. Heavily forested slopes have, in many cases, given way to veggie patches, free-ranging chickens and sheep, while Victorian rose and rhododendron hordes have made room for climate-compatible native flora. Encompassing twenty gardens, taking in grand Victorian estates and repurposed municipal water tanks alike, with evocative stories by Christine McCabe and sublime photography by Simon Griffiths, this book is a testament to the power of gardens to adapt, delight and restore.

A Garden in the Hills
A Garden in the Hills

Author: Christine McCabe

Publisher: Pan Australia

Published: 2007-11-10

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1741970334

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A Garden in the Hills charts the arrival of Christine McCabe from the inner west of Sydney and a courtyard garden of mostly dead plants, to The Oaks, a circa 1870 homestead and sprawling garden in the beautiful Adelaide Hills. Six weeks after Christine and her young, utterly urban family move into their new home, their new six-acre garden is due to open to the public as part of Australia's Open Garden Scheme. What follows is the story of a rank amateur thrown in at the deep end, attempting to master lawns, giant hedges and sprawling flower beds before she's had time to unpack... or buy a garden hose. Delightful, amusing and meditative, A Garden in the Hills takes you on a journey of discovery of the joys of gardening, and the beauty of the Adelaide Hills.

A Garden in the Hills
A Garden in the Hills

Author: Christine McCabe

Publisher: Pan

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780330422642

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A Garden in the Hills charts the arrival of Christine McCabe from the inner west of Sydney and a courtyard garden of mostly dead plants, to The Oaks, a circa 1870 homestead and sprawling garden in the beautiful Adelaide Hills.Six weeks after Christine and her young, utterly urban family move into their new home, their new six-acre garden is due to open to the public as part of Australia's Open Garden Scheme. What follows is the story of a rank amateur thrown in at the deep end, attempting to master lawns, giant hedges and sprawling flower beds before she's had time to unpack... or buy a garden hose.Delightful, amusing and meditative, A Garden in the Hills takes you on a journey of discovery of the joys of gardening, and the beauty of the Adelaide Hills.

A Garden in the Hills
A Garden in the Hills

Author: Christine McCabe

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781405036511

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Christine McCabe fell in love with The Oaks, a 130 year old homestead in the Adelaide Hills, the moment she laid eyes on it. There was just one catch: the rambling six-acre garden was listed to appear in the Open Garden Scheme later that year. Despite being unable to tell an azalea from a rhododendron, Christine and her utterly urban family move from Sydney (and a courtyard garden of mostly dead plants) to The Oaks.

Plants of the Adelaide Plains and Hills
Plants of the Adelaide Plains and Hills

Author: Gilbert Roelof Maria Dashorst

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13:

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An identification guide to the plants of Adelaide and its surrounds. Consists mainly of descriptions, maps and colour illustrations of some 1200 species. The authors are both botanists attached to the State Herbarium of South Australia.

Gardens on the Edge
Gardens on the Edge

Author: Christine Reid

Publisher: Murdoch Books

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 9781760634452

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This lavishly photographed book, written and curated by internationally respected gardening author Christine Reid and shot by renowned photographer Simon Griffiths, focuses on 18 stunning gardens from around Australia situated on a natural 'frontier'-rainforest, desert, bushland, saltbush plains, a volcanic crater, the ocean's edge, a harbour. The featured gardens have been created or restored in locations where the surrounding natural landscape is as significant as the cultivated and designed elements. In its images and stories Gardens on the Edge is much about the diversity and character of the Australian continent as it about the gardens. The accompanying stories not only explore the establishment of the garden, but also reference Australian history and geography, and cover issues ranging from dealing with droughts and climate change to restoring a long-neglected kitchen garden.

Australian Dreamscapes
Australian Dreamscapes

Author: Claire Takacs

Publisher:

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9781743794708

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In Australian Dreamscapes, Claire Takacs showcases the varied gardens found in the Australian landscape, from lush green oases to semi-arid settings. Claire profiles Australian gardens, gardeners and garden designers who are drawing on the international movement towards a more naturalistic approach to planting design. Similar to the New Perennial movement and Prairie-style, these gardens take into consideration how plants grow in the wild and have created highly textural, visually pleasing gardens that appeal not only to our love of beauty, but that sit gently in their surrounding landscapes, giving a strong sense of place. Across 15 chapters and 22 gardens, Claire's stunning photography is accompanied by essays written by the garden owners or designers. The chapters detail the journey to establishing the gardens, their motivation, and the struggles and rewards the gardens bring day in, day out. Beautifully presented, Australian Dreamscapes is a stunning journey through the diversity of gardens in Australia.