The Cruden Farm Garden Diaries by Michael Morrison - ISBN: 9781921384158
Hardcover
A garden, a friendship, and diaries revealing decades of dedication.

The Cruden Farm Garden Diaries

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  • Hardcover

    288 pages

  • Release Date

    18 April 2017

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Summary

Gardener Michael Morrison worked alongside the late Dame Elisabeth Murdoch at her home Cruden Farm for many years to create one of Australia’s finest private gardens. His garden diaries reveal how the garden was developed and maintained, but it’s also the story of a wonderful friendship - Dame Elisabeth and Michael Morrison worked together with great creativity, dedication and pleasure for four decades. Their energy, loyalty and selflessness will be inspirational to gardeners and non gardener…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781921384158
ISBN-10:1921384158
Author:Michael Morrison, Lisa Clausen
Publisher:Penguin Random House Australia
Imprint:Lantern
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:288
Release Date:18 April 2017
Weight:1.04kg
Dimensions:242mm x 185mm x 28mm
About The Author

Michael Morrison

Michael Morrison (Author)

Gardens are Michael Morrison’s passion. After horticulture studies and 10 years working with a local nursery, in 1971 he took on Sunday morning work for Dame Elisabeth, who had had little help in the large garden since making Cruden Farm her home after her husband’s death in 1952. His involvement is now all but fulltime. The partnership was significant; he and ‘the boss’ thought alike. Their regular circumnavigations of the garden in Dame Elisabeth’s electric buggy were times of great pleasure that inspired important decisions - immediate and longer-term - about design and planting, and kept them in touch with new developments.

Lisa Clausen (Author)

Lisa Clausen was born in Toronto and grew up in Wellington, Christchurch, Sydney and Adelaide. She has worked as a print journalist in newsrooms across Australia and spent 11 years an award-winning writer covering the region for the South Pacific edition of TIME magazine. She now lives in Melbourne and writes for publications such as The Monthly magazine and Fairfax’s Good Weekend magazine. Her own garden is small but cherished. Cruden Farm Garden Diaries is her first book.

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