Boroondara Planning Scheme Amendment C284

Statement of evidence by Dr Christina Dyson

Report prepared for City of Boroondara 7 August 2019

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1.0 Introduction ...... 1 1.1 Purpose ...... 1 1.2 Instructions ...... 1 1.3 Preparation of this report ...... 1 1.4 Reports relied upon ...... 1 1.5 Relevant expertise ...... 1 1.6 Qualifications and experience ...... 2 Declaration ...... 3

2.0 Methodology of the Assessment...... 4 2.1 Introduction ...... 4 2.2 Hawthorn Gap Study: Stages 1 and 2 ...... 4 2.3 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn ...... 4 2.3.1 Review of Citation and Submission 31 ...... 4 2.3.2 Site survey ...... 4 2.3.3 Historical research ...... 5 2.3.4 Comparative analysis ...... 6 2.3.5 Assessment of significance ...... 7 2.3.6 Statutory recommendations ...... 7 2.4 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn ...... 7 2.4.1 Review of Citation and Submissions 43 and 44 ...... 7 2.4.2 Site survey ...... 7 2.4.3 Historical research ...... 9 2.4.4 Assessment of significance ...... 10 2.4.5 Statutory recommendations ...... 10

3.0 Response to Submissions ...... 11 3.1 Introduction ...... 11 3.2 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn (Submission 31) ...... 11 3.2.1 Background ...... 11 3.2.2 Statement of Significance ...... 11 3.2.3 Response to Submission ...... 12 3.2.4 Further recommendations ...... 17 3.2.5 Conclusion and Recommendations ...... 17 3.3 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn ...... 17 3.3.1 Background ...... 17 3.3.2 Statement of Significance ...... 18 3.3.3 Response to Submission ...... 18 3.3.4 Further recommendations ...... 19 3.3.5 Conclusion and Recommendations ...... 19

4.0 Conclusion ...... 20

Appendix A ...... 21

Boroondara Planning Scheme Amendment C284: Statement of Evidence by Dr Christina Dyson⎯ 7 August 2019 Context

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Purpose

I, Christina Dyson, have prepared this statement of evidence for Boroondara City Council in relation to Amendment C284 to the Boroondara Planning Scheme.

Specifically, my evidence relates to the following properties:

• Dickie House, 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn;

• Eira, 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn.

The amendment proposes to implement the recommendations of the ‘City of Boroondara Municipal- Wide Heritage Gap Study, Volume 3. Hawthorn’ (referred to hereafter as the ‘Hawthorn Gap Study’ or ‘the Hawthorn Study’), revised 17 June 2019.

1.2 Instructions

This statement of evidence was prepared in accordance with the following instructions issued by Maddocks:

• To prepare a brief of evidence and appear as an expert witness before the Planning Panel;

• For the evidence to address 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn and Submission 31. The scope of my evidence related this property is limited to the significance of the landscaping/garden. Mark Stephenson (of Trethowan Architecture & Design (‘Trethowan’)) will address the architectural significance of that property.

• For the evidence to address 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn and Submissions 43 and 44. The scope of my evidence related to this property is limited to one tree (Quercus robur) in the front garden. Mark Stephenson (of Trethowan) will address other aspects of the property’s significance including the setting.

1.3 Preparation of this report

This statement has been prepared by myself, Dr Christina Dyson, of Context. The views expressed in it are my own.

1.4 Reports relied upon

In preparing this report, I have relied upon the Hawthorn Gap Study. It was prepared by a team of heritage consultants at Context and Trethowan.

1.5 Relevant expertise

My areas of expertise relevant to this Panel hearing are the assessment of the cultural heritage significance of historic gardens and cultural landscapes in the Melbourne metropolitan area, Victoria and New South Wales, and nationally, with reference to relevant current heritage assessment criteria, and horticultural.

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I have been retained by other councils to appear as an expert witness on garden and landscape heritage- related matters at Panel hearings for the East West Link planning panel (for City of Melbourne) and Amendment C231 (for City of Casey).

I have a sound understanding of the historic development and heritage of Boroondara through my involvement in the following projects for the City of Boroondara:

• Glenferrie Oval & Grace Park, Hawthorn, Heritage Assessment and Management Plan, 2006

• L.E. Bray Reserve, Hawthorn, Heritage Assessment, 2007

• Maranoa Gardens, Balwyn, CMP, 2016

• Municipal-Wide Heritage Gap Study, ongoing, commenced 2016. I have participated in four of the suburb-wide gap studies, for Hawthorn, Kew, Kew East and Hawthorn East. For these projects I have assessed some of the precincts, and contributed to the assessment of trees, gardens and landscaping as relevant for individual places.

1.6 Qualifications and experience

PhD, Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne; Grad. Dip. Horticulture (University of Melbourne); BA (Hons Class I), University of Sydney.

I am a historian of historic gardens and cultural landscapes, specialising in twentieth century Australian plant gardens. I have over 15 years’ experience in Australia’s designed landscape, horticultural, urban and built heritage, at national, state and local levels.

My doctoral research explored post-WWII Australian plant gardens and natural gardens as expressions of national identity, nationalism and modernism. I also investigated the writers, horticulturists and landscape designers associated with the promotion, legitimation and creation of gardens and landscapes in postwar Melbourne, Sydney and Canberra, which revealed close networks were formed among those involved around common concerns and interests.

I worked at Context from 2006 until 2009, and since 2015. I am an Associate of that company and Manager People. At Context I am a specialist in cultural landscape, garden and horticultural heritage, and have many years’ experience in urban and built heritage.

At Context I have worked on numerous municipal heritage studies including the Hoddle Grid Heritage Review (City of Melbourne, current), Moonee Valley Heritage Study 2017, Cardinia Shire Heritage Studies Review and Darebin Heritage Study.

At Context I have led and worked on numerous heritage assessments and management plans for significant gardens and cultural landscapes of local, state, national and world heritage significance. Specific places include: Former Smiths Nursery, Riddells Creek (Macedon Ranges); Ballarat East Town Hall Gardens (City of Ballarat); Clover Cottage and Garden, Berwick (City of Casey); Brechin Gardens, Narre Warren (City of Casey); Kingston and Arthurs Vale Historic Area, Norfolk Island (Commonwealth); Champ Street trees, Pentridge, Coburg (City of Moreland); LE Bray Reserve, Hawthorn (City of Boroondara); Grace Park and Glenferrie Oval, Hawthorn (City of Boroondara). Other historic garden and cultural landscape projects I have worked on include conservation management plans for Ranelagh Estate, Mount Eliza, The Meeting Place Precinct, Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell, NSW, Camperdown Botanic Gardens, Camperdown, and Fawkner Memorial Park, Fawkner.

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As an independent consultant I prepared a heritage assessment and heritage impact statements for Royal Park, Parkville, for the City of Melbourne, and a conservation management plan for Maranoa Gardens, Balwyn, with Richard Aitken and Lee Andrews & Associates, for City of Boroondara.

I am a Director of the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Board, Chair of the Building & Estates Committee (National Trust), and Deputy Chair of the Heritage Advocacy Committee (National Trust). I am the Chair of the Victoria’s Heritage Restoration Fund Committee of Management. I am an Honorary Life Member of the Australian Garden History Society, and was co-editor of the Society’s quarterly journal Australian Garden History from 2008-2015.

I have published articles on Australian garden history in Australian Garden History and in the international peer reviewed journal Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes. I have tutored and lectured for landscape heritage and history of landscape design subjects at the University of Melbourne between 2008 and 2015.

Declaration

I have made all the inquiries that I believe are desirable and appropriate and no matters of significance which I regard as relevant have to my knowledge been withheld from the Panel.

Signed,

Dr Christina Dyson

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2.0 Methodology of the Assessment

2.1 Introduction

In this chapter of my expert evidence I will set out the steps taken by me to assess the garden of the Dickie House, 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, and the tree at Eira, 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn.

As stated in Section 1.0, for 6 Fairview Street, the scope of my evidence is limited to the significance of the garden and landscaping. Mark Stephenson (of Trethowan) will address the architectural significance of the property and setting. For 13-15 Wellesley Road, the scope of my evidence is limited to the significance of the trees in the garden. Mark Stephenson (of Trethowan) will address the architectural significance of the property and setting.

Therefore, I will focus on my role in the project and how I formed specific opinions.

My evidence and opinions are underpinned by The Burra Charter: The Australia ICOMOS Charter for Places of Cultural Heritage Significance (2013 revised edition) and the Victoria Planning Provisions Practice Note No. 1 ‘Applying the Heritage Overlay’ (August 2018 revision).

2.2 Hawthorn Gap Study: Stages 1 and 2

Stages 1 and 2 of the study were carried out by Context and Trethowan Architecture & Design, led by my Context colleague Natica Schmeder. The Stage 2 assessments of 6 Fairview Street and 13-15 Wellesley Road were carried out by Mark Stephenson. The background to and methodology for the Municipal Wide Heritage Study, and roles of Natica Schmeder and Mark Stephenson in the Hawthorn Gap Study, are detailed in their evidence and will not be repeated here.

My role in the Hawthorn Gap Study commenced after receipt of submissions on the draft study. I provided specialist advice in response to the submissions received for 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn (Submission 31), and 13-15 Wellesley Road, and made revisions to the place citations.

2.3 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn

2.3.1 Review of Citation and Submission 31

The first component of my involvement was to review the citation for 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, in the Hawthorn Gap Study. I also reviewed Submission 31.

Review of the citation looked closely at the place history, biographies of Mervyn Davis and Ellis Stones, description of the house and garden, the comparative analysis (garden section), the assessment against criteria, statement of significance, and recommendations for the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay in particular the application of Tree Controls.

My review was focused on the parts of the citation and Submission 31 that were specifically related to the garden and its designers and makers. However, in the citation I also reviewed the sections on the house and its setting, as the garden was designed in relation to the dwelling, the sloping site with river frontage and some pre-existing vegetation.

2.3.2 Site survey

My initial survey of the site was a desktop survey, drawing on site photographs taken by Mark Stephenson from the public domain and aerial photography. Sequential aerial imagery by nearmap in

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summer and winter (2016-19) allowed different (but not all) parts of the garden not visible from the public domain to be viewed from above.

I also made an inspection of the site from the public domain, namely from Fairview Street, Fairview Park and from the opposing riverbank, Capital City Trail Linear Reserve, off Yarra Boulevard.

While in the field, I took photos of the property from the public domain, focusing the garden, as well as of details of note. During fieldwork and analysis of the aerial photographs, I took notes of features that appeared to date from the time the garden was created and of features that correlated with the original garden plan and photographic record.

2.3.3 Historical research

The history of the place was prepared by Trethowan. The submitter questioned some of the historical detail in the citation.

Additional research was carried out by me with the following objectives:

• to clarify the nature of Mervyn Davis’s and Ellis Stones’s involvement in the garden at 6 Fairview Street;

• to clarify how much of Davis’s design scheme was implemented;

• to understand how this garden compared with other garden designs by Mervyn Davis.

Additional research was carried out using primary source material held at the State Library of Victoria (SLV). The SLV Manuscript and Pictures collections hold papers and drawings belonging to Mervyn Davis. The holdings are catalogued as follows:

• Collection of Garden and Landscape Designs by Mervyn Davis, 1953 LATD 48.

• David I Dickie garden, 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, Garden layout during construction of the house and garden, views from the Yarra River and completed design with plantings natures, 1961- 64, PCLTSL 18, State Library of Victoria.

• Mervyn Twynam Davis Papers 1950-1975, [Manuscript] MS 10706.

The Contents/Summary for LTAD 48 included mention of 44 private and commercial commissions mostly in Melbourne suburbs such as Toorak, Hawthorn, Sandringham, Brighton. Mention of Hawthorn suggested high potential for this holding to include 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn. This source was requested and viewed.

The second source (PCLTSL 18) comprised 30 transparencies (colour slide, 35mm). These are available online, and so were viewed online. Some of these images had been utilised already by Mark Stephenson. The source in the draft citation was noted as State Library of Victoria. In revising the citation, I added in the full reference details.

The catalogue entry for MS 10706 included a descriptive list of the Contents. The descriptive list revealed that the holding contained a Portfolio of work by Mervyn Davis with two residential and four commercial places featured. One of the two residential works was a ‘Landscape design, private residence, Hawthorn’. The descriptive list for MS 10706 included useful biographical details and a list of 20 entries for garden plans produced by Mervyn Davis dating from 1959 and 1977, with the bulk between 1959 and 1963. The list included the 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn. Because of its potential to include material

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relevant to 6 Fairview Street, the holding was requested and viewed. The focus was on the Portfolio and the Garden Plan listed for 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn.

The materials held by the SLV revealed that Mervyn Davis produced substantial documentation of the garden at 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, including:

• Photographs of the garden before creation (December 1961), and 2 years after completion (1964);

• A leather bound folio containing a coloured rendering of the garden design, in plan with key details in elevation, design brief, photographs before construction and 2 years after completion;

• Detailed drawings and notes for Terrace Paving Design, including memoranda for structural engineers.

• Sketch plan showing numbers and locations for large stones.

• Detail drawing for Contractor John Stewart for an extension to the mower strips along west boundary.

I note that it is not common to find such detailed and high quality documentation of historic gardens.

Revisions were made to the history as a result of the additional research.

Review of the biographies in the draft citation revealed that more recent biographical detail (from secondary sources) and my own knowledge of Ellis Stones’ work as a landscape designer from my doctoral research, could valuably be incorporated into each, in order to more clearly contextualise the status, qualifications and experience of the two people involved in creating the garden.

The biographies were revised to incorporate additional detail. For Mervyn Davis additional detail was added on her background and training of relevance to her career as a landscape architect, and the prominent role she played in establishing landscape architecture as a profession in Australia (this was achieved in 1966). Davis became a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA) in 1969. Ellis Stones likewise played a prominent role alongside Davis in promoting and establishing landscape architecture as a profession. Because Stones did not have formal training in landscape architecture, he became an affiliate of the AILA in 1967, and was made an honorary fellow only in 1975.

2.3.4 Comparative analysis

The comparative analysis was revised, providing analysis of the garden at 6 Fairview Street in relation to other residential garden designs by Mervyn Davis in suburban Melbourne and within Boroondara.

Little research into residential garden designs by Mervyn Davis has been previously carried out. The lists of other residential commissions by Davis in the SLV were invaluable for my understanding of how many residential commissions Davis carried out, in which suburbs and municipalities she tended to work, and over what time period. I reviewed a sample of other designs for residential gardens by Mervyn Davis. The sample included a garden design for a modernist house in Stoke Avenue, Kew East (1962), which used similar biomorphic shaped mower strips to delineate garden beds and lawn areas to that seen at 6 Fairview. The review showed the overall quality of Davis’s design documentation and designs, and some similarities between the designs, namely the use of mower strips in biomorphic shapes to define garden beds and lawn, similar styles of boundary fencing (lightweight timber screens on bluestone foundations), and geometric paving.

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The design for 6 Fairview compares well with comparable examples of garden designs by Davis’s contemporaries (by Grace Fraser and John Stephens, in particular) and with other residential commissions by Davis.

2.3.5 Assessment of significance

The assessment of significance was revised taking into account the additional research and analysis. The changes related to the application of the HERCON Criteria.

• Criterion A was amended based on clarification of the history and the respective roles of Davis and Stones;

• Criterion E was added. The garden was considered to meet the threshold for inclusion under Criterion E for its importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics;

• Criterion H (associative significance) was deleted. This information was considered more appropriate under Criterion A (historic significance).

In the Statement of Significance, the ‘What is significant?’ section was revised, to clarify the roles of Mervyn Davis and Ellis Stones in the making of the garden at 6 Fairview Street.

These changes all appear in the June 2019 version of the Hawthorn Gap Study.

2.3.6 Statutory recommendations

I made no change to the overall statutory recommendation.

I agree with the application of Tree Controls. However, I revised the features to which the Tree Controls should apply. This was to correct the attribution of the garden design from Ellis Stones to Mervyn Davis, and the rockwork to Ellis Stones, and because of the significance of the garden and its high integrity, which derives from the retention of its original layout, structural features and hard landscaping, some original trees, and key elements of the original design.

The Tree Controls have been revised further since the June 2019 revisions, having reconsidered the primary source material and to ensure the garden layout and remnant features of the original design are adequately protected:

Yes – two eucalypts at the edge of the lawn; layout and remnant features planting scheme of the Mervyn Davis designed and planted garden with rock and stonework by Ellis Stones.

2.4 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn

2.4.1 Review of Citation and Submissions 43 and 44

The first component of my involvement was review of the citation for 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn, in the Hawthorn Gap Study. I also reviewed Submissions 43 and 44.

My review focused on the parts of the citation and Submission that were specifically related to the oak tree in the front garden setback.

2.4.2 Site survey

I was unavailable on the day scheduled to visit the site with the property owners. The survey of the site by me was carried out using photographs on Context’s file, and close analysis of additional photographs

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taken on site of the oak tree by Mark Stephenson in accordance with detailed instructions from me. My instructions for photographing the tree were to capture the following in high resolution:

• Leaf detail (front and back, including stem)

• Leaf cluster

• Fruit – if any acorns are on the tree or lying around on the ground

• Bark detail

• Distance view (from across the street, and not looking into the light if possible)

• Distance view to capture full tree, one from the west and one from the east.

The diameter of trunk at breast height was also requested (approximately 231cm with possum guard).

The Submission mentioned that the front fence was once a Cypress hedge. The potential for the hedge to have impacted on the growth rate and form and branching structure of the oak tree was also considered.

Figure 1 Oak tree in front garden setback, 13-15 Wellesley Road, Figure 2. Leaf detail, characteristic of Quercus robur, (English Oak). Hawthorn (Source: Trethowan, 2019) The furrowed bark is also characteristic of an English Oak.

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The photographs by Trethowan show a tree of considerable maturity and features characteristic of Quercus robur (English Oak).

2.4.3 Historical research

Additional desktop historical research was carried out by me, using two main resources:

• the 1921 view from the air of Scotch College (1921 Views from an Aeroplane) in the original publication, held at the State Library of Victoria, referred to in the submission. The image was captured two years after the estimated construction date of the house.

• the 1945 Melbourne aerial photograph (www.1945melbourne)

The evidence these sources provided was analysed alongside the place history and present-day site photographs.

The 1921 air photo showed no obvious dark shapes at the front of the property. If there were, this might indicate a tree at the front boundary of the property. However, if the tree had been planted in c1921, it would be difficult to see as a juvenile tree at this stage. In the image the subject house is discernable, but the resolution is insufficient to be able to say conclusively if the tree had or had not been planted in 1921. In light of this, it seems probable that the tree was planted after the 1921 air photo was captured.

The 1945 aerial shows an established tree at the front boundary of the dwelling, or two trees (see Figure 3). One tree has a slightly darker canopy and is more centrally located and appears to be the tree in question. The canopy is small-ish, but large enough to extend to (or over) the front property boundary. Conclusions that can be drawn from this evidence is that a tree in the location of the oak tree in question was reasonably well established with about 5−10+ growth by 1945. This estimate of planting date to the c1930s is consistent with the tree’s present-day size, canopy spread, size of the trunk, and taking into account other factors such as the typically slow growth rate of the species and the former hedge planting which may have influenced growth rate and form.

Figure 3. 1945 aerial photograph, 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn at the centre of the image. (Source: www.1945melbourne)

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2.4.4 Assessment of significance

As a result of the research and analysis, a new paragraph with historical information added to the final sentence was added to the site description section of the citation:

The grounds contain extensive plantings within an established garden setting. Of note is the mature oak tree (Quercus robur) in the front garden. Planted before 1945, the maturity and canopy spread of the oak tree indicate it was planted in the c1930s, suggesting it was part of an early garden made for the house.

Criterion E in the statement of significance was amended as follows:

A feature of the site is the extensive garden setting, and the mature oak tree (Quercus robur) in the front garden. An established tree by 1945, the oak was part of an early garden made for the house after it was built.

These changes appear in the June 2019 version of the Hawthorn Gap Study.

2.4.5 Statutory recommendations

I made no change to the overall statutory recommendation.

I agree with the application of Tree Controls to the oak tree in the front setback.

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3.0 Response to Submissions

3.1 Introduction

This chapter contains information on two places – 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, and 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn.

For both places, an owner or their representative will be appearing at the Amendment C284 Panel hearing.

For each place the heritage-related objections are summarised, and my responses provided. My responses draw on new research and analysis carried out be me.

I will respond only to issues raised that are related to the heritage significance of the gardens, landscaping or trees, as relevant.

Other issues raised will be addressed by Mark Stephenson in his evidence.

3.2 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn (Submission 31)

3.2.1 Background

6 Fairview Street was assessed as part of the Hawthorn Heritage Gap Study and found to be of local significance. It is recommended for inclusion in the Boroondara Heritage Overlay.

Tree Controls and Outbuildings and fences exemptions are recommended for the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay (Clause 43.01).

The reasons for its significance are set out in the statement of significance, below.

3.2.2 Statement of Significance

The statement of significance prepared for this place in the citation dated 17 June 2019 reads as follows:

What is Significant?

The Dickie House and its grounds at 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn are significant. The house, built c. 1961-64, possesses highly articulated Japanese-inspired detailing; and landscaped garden designed and planted by acclaimed Australian landscape architect Mervyn Davis MBE with stone and rockwork by noted landscape designer Ellis Stones.

How is it significant?

The Dickie House is of local historical, architectural and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

The Dickie House (1961-63) is of historical significance as it is representative of an established pattern of architect designed houses that responded to difficult sites, establishing the City of Boroondara as one of the foremost testing grounds for experimental architecture in Australia. (Criterion A)

The Dickie House is representative of the post-war design ethos, optimism and architectural modernisation pioneered by Robin Boyd and others. The design features honesty of structure and material, clean lines, deep eaves and an overall sense of innovation in design characteristic of this period. The integration of the house with the landscape, with its ‘floating’ appearance over the banks of the Yarra is characteristic of Modernist design. (Criterion D)

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6 Fairview Street is aesthetically significant for its accomplished modernist garden design by noted landscape architect Mervyn Davis with highly acclaimed landscape designer Ellis Stones. The plan was drawn by Mervyn Davis in 1961-62, and was designed in response to the modernist house and the surrounding landscape. The plan shows a design influenced by Japanese gardens, modernism, and Australian landscape themes. It was designed to step down the slope, allow views over the garden to the Yarra River, and included access in the north boundary to the adjacent Fairview Park. The original garden included a level area of lawn punctuated by a carefully grouped cluster of large stones (bluestone boulders) to form a sculptural feature, large areas of natural appearing stone laid on areas of sloped land, paths and garden beds defined by charcoal grey concrete paving creating both angular and biomorphic forms, areas of sandstone paving, a functional space along the south side of the garden. The original design also incorporated a Japanese stone lantern and rockery which are still extant. The more steeply contoured parts of the garden were landscaped with retaining walls and stepped pathways of bluestone pitchers. Although some mature eucalypts were retained as part of the design, framing views to and from the house, the original planting scheme otherwise comprised predominantly non-Australian plants, including roses, rhododendron and azaleas, citrus trees, a gingko tree, and elm. (Criterion E)

3.2.3 Response to Submission

The submitter opposes the proposed Heritage Overlay and the conclusions made for Criteria A, D and H. The submitter considers that some of the statements made in the citation are factually incorrect so the conclusions drawn are also incorrect. The submitter disagrees that the site has historical significance, representativeness or associative significance to the City of Boroondara.

The submitter’s points raised in relation to the garden and landscaping are provided below in italics, with my response to each point provided below.

The garden was not a collaboration between Mervyn Davis and Ellis Stones. Mervyn Davis was the sole landscape architect and Ellis Stones was simply a contractor to supply and position rock work in the garden.

Further research has clarified that the garden was designed by Mervyn Davis in 1961-62. Mervyn Davis was a high-profile landscape architect working in the postwar period from the 1960s. Placement of the rockwork was overseen by landscape designer Ellis Stones. Thus while Mervyn Davis was the designer responsible for the project, and Stones would have been engaged as a contractor, it is not incorrect to state that Davis and Stones collaborated in its implementation with regard to the rocks/boulders.

Mervyn Davis’s papers reveal that paving, bluestone walling, and formal/structural retaining walls, were carried out by other contractors, including a structural engineer. (LTAD 48 and MS 10706, SLV)

Both Davis and Stones were highly regarded landscape designers in their own right. Both were instrumental figures in promoting landscape design as a profession and in the establishment of a professional body for landscape architecture, the Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA). The initial meeting that led eventually to the formation of the AILA was held at Stones’ home. Ellis Stones, Alistair Knox, Gordon Ford, Peter Glass, Mervyn Davis, Margaret Hendry and John Duncan ‘were the seven who attended’. (Saniga 2012: 180)

None of her elaborate Japanese-style garden design features eventuated.

Comparison of the garden design with the photographic record taken by Davis, site survey from the public domain and using aerial photographs, reveals that some Japanese inspired features of the design were implemented. This includes:

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• the gateway in the north boundary fence with Fairview Park. The gateway and completed Japanese rockery and lantern are shown in a photograph taken c1964 by Davis of the Dickie Garden (see Figures 4 and 5).

• A Japanese style stone lantern is visible in the garden from the opposing river bank, although it appears to be in a different location to that shown in the 1964 photograph of the completed garden (see Figures 4 and 5).

• The north boundary fencing resembles a Japanese-style screen in the 1964 photograph (see Figure 5).

• The naturalistic placement of the boulders in the southwest corner of the lawn echoes Japanese- style dry gardens – in the style of Japanese temple gardens such as the dry garden, or kare- sansui (Tom Turner, Asian Gardens: History, Beliefs and Design, Routledge, 2011;263). This feature is shown in the sketch plans and photographs taken by Davis, conceptualised and completed (see Figures 6 and 7).

Figure 4. Working drawing showing gateway to Fairview Park, Figure 5. Showing completed Japanese rockery with stone lantern, Japanese rockery and placement of stone lantern. (Source: LATD 1964. (Source: MS 10706, SLV) 48, SLV)

Figure 6. Working drawing showing naturalistic placement of Figure 7. Completed southwest corner of the garden, showing boulders proposed for the lawn in southwest corner of the garden. naturalistic arrangement of stone for sculptural effect. (Source: (Source: LATD 48, SLV) (Source: MS 10706, SLV)

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Notes on the Brief prepared by Davis state three features of her design had not been implemented by August 1961:

‘The garden is not yet completed. Two fences, the landing stage and a timber over the park gate remain to be built.’ (MS 10706, SLV)

None of the photographs of the garden by Davis show the west boundary wall completed to the design shown in the coloured rendering of the garden design (see Figure 8). Therefore, it seems likely the west boundary wall did not eventuate.

Figure 8. Proposed west boundary fence (probably not completed). (Source: MS 10706, SLV)

Analysis of the garden design, the early photographic record and recent aerial photographs, suggest Davis’s garden design was otherwise implemented to a substantial degree.

Many of the landscaping features appear to remain extant, including: vertical timber posts from the Japanese-style gateway in the east boundary fence, bluestone foundations and timber sapling screen panels of east boundary fence, level area of lawn in rear garden punctuated by specimen trees, the Japanese stone lantern (possibly moved since 1964), charcoal grey concrete mower strips defining the lawn area and garden beds in the rear garden, the separate service area on west side of rear garden and possibly the fencing that screens this area, natural appearing stone in the front garden, bluestone retaining walls in the front garden.

The two mature eucalypts that were incorporated into the original design and which frame views of the river from the house and garden also remain.

The photo of the Japanese rockery (fig 4) is wrongly attributed to this garden.

It is agreed that Figure 4 is wrongly attributed to the ‘Dickie Garden’. The image was sourced from Anne Latreille’s biography of Stones, The Natural Garden: Ellis Stones, His Life and Work (1990).

Figure 4 was deleted from the citation based on new information provided by the owners that it was not of their garden. Figure 4 was replaced with a photograph of the Japanese lantern and rockery at 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, from the Mervyn Davis papers (MS 1070,6 SLV).

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The fact that she undertook the work during a brief period between corporate work and government employment is not relevant.

This information about the career of Mervyn Davis is considered historically relevant to the assessment of 6 Fairview Street, because it assists in contextualising when in Davis’s career the garden was designed and made, including after her formal training in landscape design in the UK. That Davis was employed as a landscape architect for the government (PWD) not long after she designed the garden at 6 Fairview Street adds strength to her professional standing and recognition as a landscape architect at around the time she designed the garden at 6 Fairview, and following.

This information belongs in the biographical details about Mervyn Davis. It is agreed that it is not relevant to restate this information in the assessment of significance.

The citation was amended to include this detail in Davis’s Biography. It was deleted from Criterion A of the Assessment of Significance and from the Statement of Significance.

The garden use of rocks, bluestone pavers and cement pathways was common.

It is agreed that the use of rocks, bluestone pavers and cement pathways as materials was not uncommon in gardens. However, the naturalistic placement of the rocks, for sculptural effect in lawn as noted above, and for the sloped garden beds (front garden and west of dwelling) reflect modernist ideas seen in other postwar gardens in Melbourne. The skilled naturalistic placement of the stones is characteristic of the work of Ellis Stones. The rock features were designed by Davis, but Stones’s input in their placement would have been seen as crucial to ensure the desired naturalistic effect.

The use of geometric paving and mower strips to form biomorphic shapes, while also defining areas of lawn and garden beds, is characteristic of Mervyn Davis’s designs. Similar forms are seen in other designs for suburban gardens, for example the garden plan for Stoke Avenue, Kew East, of 1962.

Davis noted that the landscape design had to address structural challenges of the site, being sloped and located in a flood zone. Thus the design challenge was to ensure the fences, terraces, and great boulders would not slip down the slope of affect the house structure. Therefore, while common materials, their use was quite particular to the site at 6 Fairview Street.

Neither the house nor the garden is representative of a post war design ethos.

Historic photographs of the garden show a postwar, modernist styled garden in keeping with the style of the house. Modernist architecture and garden design was influenced by Japanese themes, as well as Scandinavian design, which in turn was influenced by Japanese design. Modernist ideas translated to garden design were reflected in Japanese influences, biomorphic and geometric shapes, and natural landscape themes – all of which are present in the Davis design for 6 Fairview Street.

…the garden [is] of no special significance to Hawthorn. Mervyn Davis was more prominent for her advisory services and promotion of the importance of the landscaping industry rather than her actual garden works and as this garden was only a mere shadow of her original design is must have been a disappointing outcome to her.

With regards to Criterion H, whether the garden is significant for a special association with the life or works of a person or group of persons of importance to Boroondara’s history, it is agreed that the connection between the garden and Davis and Stones is more appropriately addressed under Criteria A (historic) and E (aesthetic). Further research and analysis supports the argument that the garden is aesthetically significant as a highly intact residential garden designed by high-profile landscape architect Mervyn Davis, with rockwork by noted landscape designer Ellis Stones, under Criterion E.

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Review of the Mervyn Davis garden design, her photographs two years after completion, and current aerial photographs suggests that the garden was implemented to a substantial degree and that much of the structural elements of the garden remain extant. Therefore, the garden is highly intact and appears to have high integrity.

The additional research into the Mervyn Davis papers strongly supports that the garden was regarded highly by its designer. Davis included her garden design for 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, as one of six projects (and one of the two residential commissions alongside four commercial commissions) in her Portfolio of work (MS 10706, SLV). In the early 1960s, around the time 6 Fairview Street was created, Davis completed approximately 20 designs for residential gardens, and others for town hall gardens, institutions (aged care) and churches. Because of the high quality of documentation for the garden, before construction and after completion, and because it was featured in her Portfolio of work (selected as one of two residential gardens), in my view the garden at 6 Fairview Street Hawthorn was very highly regarded by Davis.

Ellis Stones supplied the boulders but played little if any part in the design and did not consider it even worth a mention in his book ‘Australian Landscape Design’ 1971. His collaborations with Edna Walling and many other gardens are far more significant. It contains none of his trademark native plants or timber work, and as this property has many substantial bluestone walls it is unlikely any were built by him.

I was unable to determine who was responsible for the construction of the bluestone walling. Detailed specifications were prepared by Davis for structural engineers suggesting Stones was not involved in this part of the project. Stones’ contribution to the garden, as stated above, is understood to have been related to the naturalistic placement of boulders. He may also have advised on a suitable source of stone, and skilled contractors to carry out the physical labour.

While a small contribution relative to the overall project, and therefore not as significant an example of Stones’ garden designs, such as his designs for Como House in South Yarra (mid-1960s), Winter Park in Doncaster (1970-74), and Elliston in Rosanna (mid-1960s), the contribution by Stones to the 6 Fairview garden’s implementation is considered significant because Stones’s placement of boulders and stone was considered a specialised skill for which Stones was renowned by his peers.

By the early 1960s, Stones was in his sixties and had long established a reputation in his own right as a landscape designer. It was not unusual for Stones to be engaged by other landscape designers and landscape architects to take responsibility for the placement of rock as part of implementing a garden, because of his refined ability to sensitively place stone in the landscape to appear as though it had always been there. While known for his garden designs using Australian plants, Stones’ garden designs did not always use Australian native plants, and rarely did he exclusively use Australian native plants. Rather, he selected plants on the basis of their suitability to the urban environment.

The garden is not an important or representative example of the work of either of these two people.

As noted above, further research and analysis supports the argument that the garden is aesthetically significant as a highly intact residential garden designed by high-profile landscape architect Mervyn Davis, with rockwork by noted landscape designer Ellis Stones, under Criterion E, for its importance in exhibiting particular aesthetic characteristics.

Through natural attrition very few of Davis’s original plantings remain and the remnants including a Gingko biloba and a Liquidambar are neither fine examples of their species nor in particularly good health.

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Because the site was not accessed, no analysis was made of the intactness of the planting scheme or of the condition of the plants. Views of the rear garden from the opposite river bank show a mature garden with the house sited above a series of green terraces. While some original plantings may remain, it is expected in historic gardens that plant material over time will change, die and be replaced. The garden is considered to be highly intact structurally and from available sources and distance views of the garden, appears to exhibit a landscape character in keeping with the original design intent.

3.2.4 Further recommendations

Since the June 2019 version of the study was finalised I have identified errors which should be corrected. These are:

• The spelling of author Anne Latreille’s surname in the References section of the Hawthorn Gap Study should be corrected (see page 272 of the Hawthorn Gap Study, June 2019).

• Paragraph 2 in the Assessment of Significance (under Criterion A) should be restated in the ‘Why is it significant?’ section of the Statement of Significance. Currently it is not included in the Statement of Significance, and it is usual practice for all aspects of the assessment to be reflected in the Statement of significance:

The garden is an uncommon example of a residential garden design by landscape architect Mervyn Davis with landscape designer Ellis Stones, both acclaimed Australian landscape designers who played prominent roles in establishing landscape architecture as a profession in Australia. The elaborate design was drawn by acclaimed landscape architect Mervyn Davis and features extensive areas of stonework and a stone feature in the lawn, presumably overseen by Ellis Stones and the planting scheme a rare example by Mervyn Davis undertaken during her limited period of private practice between 1961 and 1963.

• In the Recommendations to the Schedule of the Heritage Overlay, under Tree Controls, the tree controls should be amended as follows, for the reasons provided in Section 2.3.6:

Yes – two eucalypts at the edge of the lawn; layout and remnant features planting scheme of Mervyn Davis designed and planted garden with rock and stonework by Ellis Stones.

• In the Recommendations to the Schedule of the Heritage Overlay under the Outbuildings and fences exemptions, ‘Ellis Stones’ should be deleted, and replaced with ‘Mervyn Davis’.

3.2.5 Conclusion and Recommendations

It is my opinion that:

• The garden at 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn warrants inclusion in the Heritage Overlay (with the house) as an individually significant place. It is appropriate as part of that listing to include Tree Controls and Outbuildings/fence controls.

• The recommendations made in Section 3.2.4 should be adopted.

• No other changes are recommended to Amendment C284.

3.3 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn

3.3.1 Background

13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn, was assessed as part of the Hawthorn Heritage Gap Study and found to be of local significance. It is recommended for inclusion in the Boroondara Heritage Overlay.

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Tree Controls are recommended for the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay (Clause 43.01).

The reasons for its significance are set out in the statement of significance below.

3.3.2 Statement of Significance

The statement of significance prepared for this place in the citation dated 17 June 2019, reads as follows:

What is Significant?

Eira, the dwelling and extensive garden setting of 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn is significant. Completed in 1919, the residence was constructed for local businessman John Jones.

The single storey service and laundry wing is a contributory element.

The garage and the bluestone front fence are non-contributory.

How is it significant?

Eira, 13-15 Wellesley Road is of local historic and aesthetic significance to the City of Boroondara.

Why is it significant?

Eira, 13-15 Wellesley Road is a representative and intact example of a substantial Arts and Craft residence built in the infancy of the Interwar period. The residence is situated on a large block and follows in the earlier trend of the suburban mansion house tradition with a garden setting. (Criterion D)

The residence is noted for its composition of double storey canted bays, symmetrically placed either side of a projecting central double storey gabled porch bay. Although minimally detailed, it is an uncommon example with regard to the combination of features of the style applied to a square plan.

3.3.3 Response to Submission

The submitter opposes the proposed Heritage Overlay and requests that the property be removed from the HO in its entirety; or alternatively, the HO to be reduced to exclude 13 Wellesley Road and the front oak tree.

The submitter’s reasons raised in relation to the oak tree are provided below in italics, with my response provided below.

The statement of significance states: ‘A feature of the site is the extensive garden setback, and the mature oak tree in the front garden setback (Criterion E).’ According to the Practice Note, tree controls are only to be included where the tree or trees have been assessed as having heritage value, not just amenity value. However, in this case the Oak tree is referred to under Criterion E, aesthetic value. No evidence of the heritage value of the tree has been provided. The ‘mature oak tree’ referred to is not original but, according to the previous owners, resulted from an accord thrown into the garden by an anonymous passer-by in the 1970s.

My response addresses the oak tree in the front garden setback only.

Research using historic aerial photography, has determined that a tree of approximately 5-10 years or more growth has been in the location of the present-day mature oak tree since 1945 (refer Figure 3 above). This is supported by the information provided by the tree itself. Photographs taken of the tree in

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April 2019 by Mark Stephenson confirm the tree is of considerable maturity, a Quercus robur. It appears to be of a size and canopy spread consistent with an oak tree planted in about the 1930s.

The maturity and size of the tree, which correlate with the evidence contained in the 1945 aerial photograph, suggests the tree was planted in the 1930s. In light of this evidence, the oak tree should be noted as an element of the original or early garden made after the house was completed. The species is consistent with planting choices of the era in which the house was constructed. The tree’s early association with the site as an original or early planting supports its aesthetic significance and its heritage value as an important part of the garden setting.

3.3.4 Further recommendations

Since the June 2019 version of the study was finalised I have identified that the final paragraph in the Statement of Significance ‘Why is it significant?’ section, is missing from the Assessment of Significance (Criterion E).

The paragraph should be added under Criterion E in the Assessment of Significance in the Hawthorn Gap Study, because the tree is part of an early garden scheme for the house and therefore forms an important part of the garden setting.

3.3.5 Conclusion and Recommendations

It is my opinion that:

• The oak tree in the front garden at 13-15, Hawthorn, is significant and warrants the application of Tree Controls in the Schedule to the Heritage Overlay.

• The recommendation made in Section 3.3.4 should be adopted.

• No other changes are recommended to Amendment C284.

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4.0 Conclusion

It is my professional opinion that the assessments for 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, and 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn, by Context and Trethowan were undertaken with rigour in accordance with current best-practice guidance.

Revisions to the citations made by me were the result of my specialist knowledge of postwar Australian landscape design, of the work and professional standing of Ellis Stones, and that additional resources in the Mervyn Davis papers at the SLV could shed additional light on the garden at 6 Fairview Street.

For 6 Fairview Street, Hawthorn, revisions made by me did not result in fundamental changes to the existing citations but rather corrected and clarified historical details, amended the application of criteria and clarified the features to which the Tree Controls apply.

For 13-15 Wellesley Road, Hawthorn, revisions made by me were limited to confirming the date the oak tree in the front garden was planted, and amending the existing application of Criterion E in relation to the oak tree so that its inclusion was adequately justified under Criterion E and to warrant the application of Tree Controls.

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Appendix A

Resume of Dr Christina Rose Dyson

Boroondara Planning Scheme Amendment C284: Statement of Evidence by Dr Christina Dyson⎯ 7 August 2019 21 Christina Dyson Associate, Manager People

Cultural landscape, horticultural & built heritage management.

Context, 22 Merri Street, Brunswick 3056 Phone +61 3 9380 6933 Email: [email protected] www.contextpl.com.au

PhD, Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Qualifications Building and Planning (University of Melbourne) Graduate Diploma, Horticulture (University of Melbourne) Bachelor of Arts (Hons.), Art History & Theory, Literature (University of Sydney)

Memberships Director – National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Board; Chair – Buildings & Estates Committee, NTA(V); Deputy Chair – Heritage Advocacy Committee, NTA(V) Chair – Victoria’s Heritage Restoration Fund, Committee of Management Member – National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Member (Honorary Life) – Australian Garden History Society; AGHS Engagement Working Group (foundation member) Member – ICOMOS (full international) Member – Australia ICOMOS National Scientific Committee for Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Routes

Expertise Christina is a historian of historic gardens and cultural landscapes, specialising in twentieth century Australian plant gardens. She also has wide experience in Australia’s garden, cultural landscape, urban and built heritage, at world, national, state and local levels. She has particular interest in and aptitude for the assessment and management of complex cultural landscapes.

Experience Christina re-joined Context in March 2016, after completing her doctorate at the University of Melbourne (Melbourne School of Design) in 2015. Her thesis investigated post-WWII Australian plant gardens and their connections with national identity. Prior to re-joining Context, through her own consultancy Christina worked on a range of heritage advisory and designed landscape assessments and conservation plans, including for Royal Park, Parkville (City of Melbourne), and Maranoa Gardens, Balwyn (with Richard Aitken and Lee Andrews for City of Boroondara). She appeared as an expert witness representing City of Melbourne, for the East West Link planning panel. At Context Christina has worked on a diverse range of cultural landscape and built heritage projects, including management plans for World, Commonwealth, National heritage listed sites and places of local and State heritage significance. She has also worked on numerous heritage advisory and assessment

1 projects and local heritage studies. Before joining in Context in 2006, Christina worked as a heritage consultant in Sydney with Godden Mackay Logan (now GML Heritage). In this role, Christina was involved in heritage impact assessments, conservation management plans, and high-level strategic heritage projects.

Project examples Hoddle Grid Heritage Review City of Melbourne, current

Abbotsford Convent Conservation Management Plan Project Abbotsford Convent Foundation, current

Victoria’s Avenues of Honour Project Department of Premier and Cabinet (Veterans Branch), current

Former Smiths Nursery, Riddells Creek, Heritage Impact Statements Urban Design and Management, 2016-2019

City of Manningham Heritage Advisor City of Manningham, current

Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Heritage Area, Norfolk Island, Cultural Landscape Management Plan (joint project with GML Heritage) Department of Infrastructure, Regional Development and Cities, June 2019

Moonee Valley 2017 Heritage Study City of Moonee Valley, February 2019

Johnston Street Signalisation Project, Abbotsford Convent (lead by Urban Initiatives) Abbotsford Convent Foundation, July 2018

Ballarat East Town Hall Gardens Heritage Assessment City of Ballarat, June 2018

Clover Cottage and Garden, Berwick, Statement of Evidence, Casey Planning Scheme Amendment C231 City of Casey, March 2018

Boroondara Heritage Study Stage 2 Boroondara City Council, 2016-

Heritage advice (landscape, horticultural & built heritage) and heritage assessments of individual places and precincts for municipal councils including the cities of Boroondara, Moreland, Melbourne, Moonee Valley, Casey, Yarra, Knox, and Cardinia Shire

Fawkner Memorial Park Conservation Management Plan Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust, 2017

2 2 Brechin Gardens, Narre Warren Conservation Management Plan City of Casey, 2016

Camperdown Botanic Gardens Conservation Management Plan Corangamite Shire Council, 2015 16

Lake Burley Griffin & Adjacent Lands: Heritage Assessment & Management Plan (lead by Godden Mackay Logan) National Capital Authority, 2009 Winner: 2010 Energy Australia National Trust (NSW) Heritage Awards: Conservation Management Plan category

The Meeting Place Precinct, Botany Bay National Park, Kurnell, NSW: Conservation Management Plan Office of Environment and Heritage, 2008 Winner, 2009 Energy Australia National Trust Award NSW – Conservation Management Plan Award; Winner, 2008 PIA NSW Planning Excellence Award – Heritage

Ranelagh Estate: Conservation Management Plan Mornington Peninsula Shire, 2008 Winner, 2008 PIA Victoria Planning Excellence Award – Heritage

Parliament House Vista Management Plan (lead by Duncan Marshall) National Capital Authority, 2006

Glenferrie Sports Ground & Grace Park Precinct Heritage Assessment City of Boroondara, 2006

Cardinia Shire Heritage Study Review, Stages 1 & 2 Shire of Cardinia, 2006 & 2008

Darebin Heritage Study City of Darebin, 2007

Kosciuszko National Park Huts: Conservation Strategy (with Godden Mackay Logan) Office of Environment and Heritage, 2005 Winner, 2006 Energy Australia National Trust NSW Heritage Awards – Conservation Management Plan

Conference papers, Dr Christina Dyson & Rachel Jackson, ‘Management of the Kingston and Arthur’s Vale Historic Area’s cultural presentations, lectures landscape’, conference paper for Culture: Conserving it Together, ICOMOS Conference, Fiji, October 2018

Dr Christina Dyson, ‘Frederick S Tuckfield of Clover Cottage, Berwick: Camellia Grower’, presentation to the Camellia Ark Project annual meeting in Mooroolbark, 9 September 2018

Christina Dyson, ‘Planting identity: wildflowers in the

3 suburbs’, presentation to the Lyceum Club, Melbourne, 3 September 2015

Christina Dyson, ‘A history of gardening with Australian plants’, presentation to Garden Ambassadors, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, 13 July 2015

Christina Dyson, ‘History Saves Landscapes’, presentation at ‘Cultivating Community: Garden making and public history’ (speakers Richard Aitken, Christina Dyson, and Sharon Willoughby), Making Public Histories Seminar Series, an initiative of the Institute of Public History, Monash University and the State Library of Victoria, State Library of Victoria, 25 September 2014

Christina Dyson, ‘Heritage Saves Landscapes’, guest lecture, Urban and Landscape Heritage (Masters elective), Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne, 24 September 2014

Christina Dyson, ‘Manipulating History: The Natural Australian Plant Garden, 1945-1985’, Second World Congress of Environmental History, 8–12 July 2014, Guimarães, Portugal, hosted by the University of Minho and the International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations

Christina Dyson, guided ‘Walk and talk’, Royal Park, Parkville, Melbourne for the Australian Garden History Society (Victorian Branch), February

Articles, book reviews Christina Dyson, ‘Rethinking Australian natural gardens and national identity’ in James Beattie (Ed.), Gardens at the Frontier: New Methodological Perspectives on Garden History and Designed Landscapes, Routledge, 2018

Christina Dyson, ‘Rethinking Australian natural gardens and national identity, 1950–1979’ in Studies in the History of Gardens and Designed Landscapes: An International Quarterly, 36 (1), 2016, pp. 53–64

Christina Dyson, ‘Book Review: Peggy James, Cosmopolitan Conservationists: Greening Modern Sydney’ in Historical Records of Australian Science, 24 (2) 2013, pp. 344–346

Christina Dyson, ‘Living fossils and mouth-watering stones: manipulating history in the post-WWII natural Australian plant garden’, unpublished essay awarded the 2013 Mike Smith Prize by the National Museum of Australia and the Australian Academy of Science

Christina Dyson, ‘Conserving significance within a context of change: a case study of the Glenferrie sports ground and Grace Park precinct’, Studies in Australian Garden History, Vol. 3, 2012, pp.35–47

Christina Dyson & Richard Aitken, ‘Honouring Nina Crone’,

4 4 Australian Garden History, 23 (3), January/February/March 2012, p.3

Christina Dyson, ‘Netscape: The Cultural Landscape foundation’, Australian Garden History, 25 (2), October/November/December 2013, p.22

Christina Dyson & Richard Aitken, ‘Inviting gestures: scholarship, heritage, and advocacy’, Australian Garden History, 24 (4), April/May/June 2013, pp.3–4

Christina Dyson & Richard Aitken, ‘Reviewing the cultural history of gardens’, Australian Garden History, 25 (1), July/August/September 2013, pp.3–4

Christina Dyson & Richard Aitken, ‘Modernist gardens: conserving a vulnerable heritage’, Australian Garden History, 25 (2), October/November/December 2013, p.3

Christina Dyson, ‘Notes from a hillside villa’, Australian Garden History, 22(2), October/November/December 2010, p. 32; 22(3), January/February/March 2011, p.25; 22(4), April/May/June 2011, pp. 24–26; 23(1), July/August/September 2011, p. 24

Christina Dyson, ‘Vulnerable scenery: the shifting dynamics of a natural aesthetic in Australian postwar gardens’, conference paper, (Un)loved Modern, Australia ICOMOS Conference, Sydney, 7–9 July 2009

Christina Dyson, ‘Nation and garden design’, Australian Garden History, 19(5), May/June 2008, pp. 8–11

Christina Vos, ‘Designs on History’ (conference report), Australian Garden History, 18(4), February/March/April 2007, pp. 5–8