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• Title:Gardens of history and imagination : growing New South Wales / edited by Gretchen Poiner and Sybil Jack.
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Poiner, Gretchen, editor.
  Jack, Sybil M., editor.
  
• Published/Created:The University Of Sydney, NSW : Sydney University Press, [2016]
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: SB451.36.A8 G33 2016
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Gardening--Australia--New South Wales--History.
  Gardens--Social aspects--Australia--New South Wales.
  Gardening--Social aspects--Australia--New South Wales.
  Frontier and pioneer life--Australia--New South Wales.
  New South Wales--History.
  New South Wales--Social conditions.
  New South Wales--Economic conditions.
  
• Description:xxiv, 277 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 27 cm
  
• Summary:Whether on the ground or in the mind gardens carry meaning. They reflect social and aesthetic values and may express hope, anticipation or grief. Throughout history they have provided a means of physical survival. In creating and maintaining gardens people construe and construct a relationship with their environment. But there is no single meaning carried in the word 'garden': as idea and practice it reflects cultural differences in beliefs, values and social organisation. It embodies personal, community even national ways of seeing and being in the world. There are ten essays in this book, each of which examines the role of gardens and gardening in the settlement of New South Wales and in growing a colony and a state. They explore the significance of gardens for the health of the colony, for its economy, for the construction of social order and moral worth. No less do they reveal the significance of forming and reforming personal identities in this process. For the immigrants gardening was an act of settlement; it was also a statement of possession for individuals and for Britain. For a long time it was with memories of 'home', often selective and idealised, that settlers made gardens but as the colony developed its own character so did gardening possibilities and practices.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781743324561 paperback
  1743324561 paperback
  
• Contents:Forewords / Brett Summerell, Richard Neville, Robert Prince
  Introduction / Gretchen Poiner
  1. Gardens, landscapes, wilderness : ways of seeing ourselves / Gaynor Macdonald
  2. A sense of place / Gretchen Poiner
  3. Garden elements : seeds, plants and their sources in colonial New South Wales / Sybil Jack
  4. Cultivated wellbeing : gardens and health in colonial New South Wales / Janet George
  5. Exhibiting gardening / Ailsa McPherson
  6. Riverine gardens in Sydney waterways / Stuart Read
  7. Garden suburbs for the people : the movement from late Nineteenth-century New South Wales / John Ramsland
  8. Planting New South Wales : the role of the Sydney Botanic Garden / Colleen Morris
  9. Hollywood in Burwood : the transformation of a suburban backyard to a garden / Catherine Rogers
  10. The evolving meanings of Retford Park : from the Horderns to Fairfax, 1885 to the present / Sue Rosen.