Dimensions
205 x 251 x 20mm
Edna Walling was one of Australia's great landscape designers. For gardeners and for garden-lovers alike, her name conjures up images of stone walls and steps, arching and scrambling roses, ornamental pools, drifts of ground cover - and, above all, a gentle wildness. She sought always through her designs to link house and garden, to make the outdoors a living space.
Walling was also a gifted writer who managed to be both lyrical and engagingly straightforward. 'A Gardener's Log', first published in 1948, is a collection of her articles from the magazine Australian Home Beautiful. Described by Walling as "the notebook of a garden-maker", it has the intimacy of a diary and the authority of a practical landscaping text.
Well over half a century later 'A Gardener's Log' - here deliciously redesigned while retaining the appeal of Walling's original photographs and plans - still has much to teach us.
