Edna Walling And Her Gardens
Australian History Botany Biography Garden Design Landscape Architecture Environmentalism Collectible Books
Rare-book hunters searching for “Edna Walling and her gardens” prize this 1997 second-edition hardcover because it is the only compact, image-rich biography of Australia’s most influential landscape designer. In 136 pages Peter Watts distils Walling’s four-decade career—her 1930s Bickleigh Vale village in Victoria, the signature dry-stone walls, and the native-plant ethos that predated today’s sustainable gardening movement. Forty-five period photographs, garden plans and sketches reproduced on art-stock paper let readers study Walling’s trademark curves, borrowed bush views and rock work in detail far clearer than later reprints.
Collectors value the vintage 1990s production: sewn signatures, cloth-covered boards and the intact dust jacket make the book both durable and display-worthy. Because Walling’s original 1940s monographs are scarce and fragile, this affordable, readily-found edition is the copy most designers, heritage gardeners and students actually consult. The concise narrative suits young adults exploring landscape careers yet offers enough depth for adults restoring period gardens or researching Australia’s built heritage.
Owning a clean, smoke-free copy ensures you have the reference photographers, landscapers and garden historians cite when recreating Walling’s “naturalistic order.” Keywords: Edna Walling biography, Australian garden history, landscaping design book, native plant gardening, 1997 illustrated hardcover, Peter Watts author, second edition collectible.
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