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Gardening

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Ambleside

Victa Mowers Pty Ltd

Mowhall rotary mower

Mowing Places with Victa

Ambleside

Yengo

Garden Clubs of Australia

Victa Mowers Pty Ltd

Lockley, John Gilmour

Munro, Malcolm

Pink, Olive Muriel

Frenchman's Gardens

'I exports natives and imports exotics from Botany Bay' 1810s

'Some ground having been prepared...', in David Collins' 'An account of the English colony in New South Wales...' 1798-1802

Detail showing gardens and nursery and Macquarie Wall from 'Plan of Governors Demesne Land, surveyed in the year 1816'

First Government House and Boston's Mill, c1803

Gang of convicts working in a quarry around Millers Point c1821

Government House and part of the town of Sidney, N.S.Wales 1828

Hugh Dixson 1915

Mick Dark in the garden at Varuna 2010

Sketch of Centennial Park c1887

Sun Tiy Sang Gardener c1920

Sydney Port Jackson, New South Wales, taken from the Rocks on the western side of the Cove, c1803

The native garden designed by Malcolm Munro for the landscaping of the Macquarie Street façade of the new Reserve Bank of Australia building, as completed in 1964

View of the governor's house at Sydney in Port Jackson New South Wales Jan'y 1791

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Gardening

Ambleside

Ambleside and its garden were a refuge and an inspiration to photographer Harold Cazneaux, who lived there from 1915 until his death in 1953.

Victa Mowers Pty Ltd

Invented in Sydney, and adapted by the founder of Victa, the rotary lawnmower made a neat lawn easy to maintain, just in time for Sydney's postwar suburban expansion.

Mowhall rotary mower

Early rotary mower with blades mounted onto a plough disc, a kerosene tin as the petrol tank, a boat motor and a tubular steel frame. It was so heavy that it required two people to pull it with a rope as well as push it across the lawn.

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Mowing Places with Victa

A two-minute promotional film distributed to cinemas around the country.

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Ambleside

Harold Cazneaux's house and garden in Roseville

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Yengo

Victorian Georgian stone house at 11-19 Queens Avenue, Mount Wilson that was built for industrialist Jesse Gregson in 1880. The house is one of the foundation houses of Mount Wilson, and the significant garden was created by Gregson with the help of Charles Moore and then J.H. Maiden.

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Garden Clubs of Australia

Umbrella organisation of garden groups which aims to promote and encourage various aspects of community based horticulture through community and civic activities.

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Victa Mowers Pty Ltd

Company that popularised the rotary mower, just in time for the postwar expansion of backyards in Sydney.

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Lockley, John Gilmour

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Writer who wrote several gardening books and, using the pseudonym 'Redgum', wrote about gardening at the Sydney Morning Herald. He also wrote under the pseudonym 'Fiorist' for the Evening News and also for the Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Sun.

Munro, Malcolm

Landscape architect based in Canberra who won the competition held by the Reserve Bank of Australia in 1961 for a garden design which would serve as the Reserve Bank of Australia building's interface with Macquarie Street.

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Pink, Olive Muriel

Aboriginal-rights activist, anthropologist, artist and gardener who lived in Sydney from the 1910s to 1930s before moving to Alice Springs.

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Frenchman's Gardens

Just after the arrival of the First Fleet in 1788, a fleet of French ships captained by Jean-Francois Lapérouse also arrived and anchored at what is now known as Frenchmans Bay. After making landfall, they set up a stockade and planted European vegetable seeds in a plot which became known as 'the Frenchman's Gardens'. The French fleet, however, departed after just six weeks. An 1824 description noted the garden was still visible: 'An enclosure in which Lapérouse had vegetables sown is still there, it has kept the name of the French garden. It is surrounded by a hedge but the inside is almost uncultivated; some vegetables saved by the detachment perished because of lack of water'.

The location of the Frenchman's Gardens is uncertain but was described in 1824 as 'located at 300 paces' distance' from the Macquarie watchtower.

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'I exports natives and imports exotics from Botany Bay' 1810s

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National Library of Australia

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'Some ground having been prepared...', in David Collins' 'An account of the English colony in New South Wales...' 1798-1802

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a1341091 / Q79/60 (vol.1), p6]

( 'An account of the English colony in New South Wales: with remarks on the dispositions, customs, manners, &c. of the native inhabitants of that country. To which are added, some particulars of New Zealand...' ; London, 1798-1802) (Dixson Library))

Detail showing gardens and nursery and Macquarie Wall from 'Plan of Governors Demesne Land, surveyed in the year 1816'

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By

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[M3 811.172/1816/1 (detail)]

(Mitchell Library)

First Government House and Boston's Mill, c1803

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By

John William Lancashire

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a928474 / DG SV1/60 (detail)]

(Detail from 'Sydney Port Jackson, New South Wales, taken from the Rocks on the western side of the Cove' c1803) (Dixson Galleries)

Gang of convicts working in a quarry around Millers Point c1821

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By

Major James Taylor

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a2916001 / V1/ca.1821/4 (detail)]

(Detail of Plate 1 of 'Panoramic views of Port Jackson', c1821, drawn by Major James Taylor, engraved by R. Havell & Sons, published in London 1823) (Mitchell Library)

Government House and part of the town of Sidney, N.S.Wales 1828

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National Library of Australia

[PIC Solander Box A32 #T69 NK12/31]

Hugh Dixson 1915

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National Library of Australia

(Sydneyites as we see 'em, 1913-14-15, Newspaper Cartoonists' Association of New South Wales (Sydney) 1915)

Mick Dark in the garden at Varuna 2010

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Varuna The National Writers House

Sketch of Centennial Park c1887

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

Sun Tiy Sang Gardener c1920

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From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a453003 / PXA 978, 529]

Sydney Port Jackson, New South Wales, taken from the Rocks on the western side of the Cove, c1803

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By

John William Lancashire

From the collections of the

State Library of New South Wales

[a928474 / DG SV1/60]

(Dixson Galleries)

The native garden designed by Malcolm Munro for the landscaping of the Macquarie Street façade of the new Reserve Bank of Australia ...

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Reserve Bank of Australia

[Reserve Bank of Australia Archives PN-004512]

View of the governor's house at Sydney in Port Jackson New South Wales Jan'y 1791

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By

William Bradley

Contributed By

National Library of Australia

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