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Michael Looker

Gardenesque by Richard Aitken & The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens edited by Richard Aitken and Michael Looker

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December 2004–January 2005, no. 267
Paul de Serville reviews ‘Gardenesque: A celebration of Australian gardening’ by Richard Aitken and ‘The Oxford Companion to Australian Gardens’ edited by Richard Aitken and Michael Looker

Gardening is as old as the British settlement of Australia, but its popularity among the expanding middle classes has blossomed throughout the continent over the last forty years. The annual guide published by Australia’s Open Garden Scheme with the ABC, and Louise Earwaker and Neil Robertson’s The Open Garden (2000), attest to the variety of gardening styles practised today.

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