Booktopia - Australia's Quarter Acre : The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden, Peter Timms, 9780522851854

Australia's Quarter Acre : The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden

Australia's Quarter Acre : The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden

By: Peter Timms

Australia's Quarter Acre : The Story of the Ordinary Suburban Garden

Retail Price:	$39.95
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ISBN: 9780522851854

Format: Hardcover
Published: August 2006

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Booktopia Comments: If you are looking for a gift for someone who has always enjoyed Australian culture and the pleasure of owning that quarter acre block in suburbia and tending to the garden then this could be an excellent for a Christmas or birthday present. It is published by Melbourne University's Miegunyah Press and they are renowned for their outstanding publications. The photos are gorgeous and bring back so many memories. It specifically focuses on the garden and not on the buildings themselves. This sturdy hardcover book is highly recommended.

Who invented the rotary clothesline, the lawnmower and the fibreglass swimming pool?

Why are our back gardens today so different from those of our grandparents?

And what happened to the chrysanthemums and marigolds that once made front gardens so colourful?

In this fascinating look at Australia's ordinary suburban block, Peter Timms traces the development of its design, its plantings and its hidden meanings, explaining how we have used our gardens for pleasure, relaxation and growing our own food. Dogs and chooks, woodsheds, outside loos, fruit trees, fences and even the illuminated Santa Clause Christmas - Timms has somethng new and surprising to say about them all.

From plots to plants, Timms describes the decline of the manicured lawn and the productive home vegetable garden, and our passion for roses and gladioli. He uncovers how Australia became the world's first great suburban nation, and how social and economic developments have altered the layouts of front and back gardens.

Australia's Quarter Acre is, above all, a spirited defence of the suburban garden, which is, as Timms so lovingly shows, a valuable and unique part of our national heritage.

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