gardens

Garden layout with flowering trees, 1960

Australia

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1 January 1960

7 November 2013

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Australia

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7 November 2013

Garden layout with flowering trees, 1960. These typical garden designs by Harry Oakman, Gardening in Queensland, Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1960, feature large spaces suitable for growing jacarandas.

Jacaranda trees in New Farm Park, c1958.

Jacaranda trees in flower, New Farm Park, 1958. Slide by Patrick Conaghan, Private Collection

Jacaranda trees in flower, New Farm Park, 1958

Jacaranda

In spring the blooms of the Jacaranda tree infuse the landscape with a distinct shade of purple.

Government Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, c1890

Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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1 January 1890

19 November 2010

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Brisbane, QLD

Australia

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19 November 2010

Collection of the National Library of Australia

Government Botanic Gardens, Brisbane, c1890. Philip MacMahon, Curator. The blue colouring indicates the inundation from flood waters in March 1890, and its depth. Features of the garden are bunya, rosary, fern island, mangoes, sloping lawn, glass fernery, offices, new bush house, aviary and propagating yard. Collection of the National Library of Australia

Nindooinbah Homestead garden, Beaudesert, 1935. Captioned incorrectly as Nindoornbah in original. From Official Souvenir Beaudesert and National Park Lamington Plateau, Brisbane, 1935, Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Garden layouts from H. Oakman, Gardening in Queensland, Brisbane, Jacaranda Press, 1960.

Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland

Cultivation

The interest in potentially economically valuable plants (for food, timber, dyes, fabric, and drugs) was part of the concerted effort given by colonial governments towards providing botanic gardens