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BOSTON IVY: Melbourne & Its Gardens Paul Fox in conversation with Christine Reid & Denise Gadd

Wednesday 21 Sep 2011, 10:15 AM – 11:45 AM

A conversation about Melbourne and its gardens: looking at the inheritance of ideas from botanic garden to suburban garden ... and where now for Melbourne gardens? Garden historian Dr Paul Fox talks with The Age garden editor Denise Gadd and Country Style garden editor Christine Reid.

DR PAUL FOX has written Clearings: Six Colonial Gardeners and their Landscapes. He has also been the recipient of the University of Melbourne’s Wettenhall prize for the best post-graduate thesis in Australian history. He is currently writing Travelling and Standing Still: How Australians See the World, as well as creating his own paradise garden in conjunction with a graphic design cooperative in Tehran.

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