$44.56
- Hardcover
288 pages
- Release Date
17 April 2017
Summary
Cruden Farm: A Gardener’s Chronicle
Cruden Farm, a cherished wedding gift to Dame Elisabeth Murdoch in 1928, blossomed into one of Australia’s most exquisite gardens under her vision and the dedicated hands of gardener Michael Morrison.
For over four decades, Michael meticulously documented the garden’s evolution in his diaries. Within their pages, he chronicles the flourishing plants and the inevitable losses, the extremes of weather and the unexpected events that shaped th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781921384158 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1921384158 |
| Author: | Michael Morrison, Lisa Clausen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Random House Australia |
| Imprint: | Lantern |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 17 April 2017 |
| Weight: | 1.03kg |
| 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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