Kristin Lammerting, photography by Ferdinand Graf von Luckner, Inspirational Gardens of New Zealand, Penguin Books: Auckland, 2010, 228pp. ISBN 9780670074785. Stuart Read This book looks great on first glance. If…
REVIEW ARTICLE: Thomas Mawson: Life, Gardens and Landscapes
Janet Waymark, Thomas Mawson: Life, Gardens and Landscapes, Frances Lincoln, London, 2009, pp.240, ISBN-13: 978 0 7112 2595 4 (hbk.). Walter Cook Janet Waymark’s account of Thomas Mawson’s life and…
REVIEW: The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art
Christopher Johnstone, The Painted Garden in New Zealand Art, Godwit, Auckland, 2008, pp. 272, ISBN: 978 1 86962 141 4 (hbk.). James Beattie Christopher Johnstone’s The Painted Garden in New…
GARDEN REVIEW: ‘Te Parapara Garden’ and ‘The Indian Char Bagh Garden’, Hamilton Gardens
Peter Sergel & Geoff Doube Introduction First-time visitors to Hamilton Gardens who arrive expecting a collection of plants in a traditional botanic garden will be in for a surprise. Rather…
Some notes on the philosophy of Hamilton Gardens
Geoffrey Doube[1] There is an interesting and on-going philosophical debate that can be traced through the scholarly journals of human geography, landscape architecture, and garden history.[2] The central question with…