GARDEN VOICES

摘要

Those of us in the thrall of Australian landscape design eagerly await publications that reveal new creative works: gardens and broader landscapes that respond to place and are boldly contemporary, with inventive planting overlaying an effective structure. Australia's extraordinary prosperity in the period 1990 to 2010 brought into play new wealth and its ability to commission and maintain new gardens and landscapes. While no publication has, as yet, comprehensively explored the outcomes of this flourish of activity, Anne Latreille's new volume Garden Voices: Australian Designers - Their Stories brings into view some of the key endeavours of those two decades. Anne Latreille is well known to Melburnians through her columns for The Age, and more recently to a wider audience through her books on influential gardeners Joan Law-Smith and Dame Elisabeth Murdoch.