Tropical pleasures
Subtitle: a focus on Queensland gardens : papers of the 24th National Australian Garden History Society, Brisbane, 11-13 July 2003
Contributors: Cooke, Glenn R.
Series: Queensland review -- v. 10, no. 2
Publisher: University of Queensland Press, in association with the Queensland Studies Centre, School of Arts, Media and Culture, Griffith University
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Queensland [Australia]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 166
Subjects: Historic gardens; Congresses; Gardens; Cultural property; Protection
Other titles: Focus on Queensland gardens; Papers of the 24th National Australian Garden History Society, Brisbane, 11-13 July 2003
Notes: "The papers in this issue span a time frame of 150 years from the establishment of Gracemere, Rockhampton in the 1850s to the Roma Street Parkland, Brisbane in 2001 and a geographic range from Paronella Park at Ingham in North Queensland to Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast"--Cover.

Special issue of the Queensland review (Nov. 2003).

Special issue editor: Glenn R. Cooke.

Caption title.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Tropicalia : gardens with tropical attitude / Jeannie Sim; title: Can Brisbane remain a subtropical city? / Peter Spearritt; title: The Acclimatisation Society gardens / Catherine Brouwer; title: Assimilating nature : the bunya diaspora /Anna Haebich; title: Retailing tropical plants in Queensland : a family history / Bruce Perrott; title: Harry Oakman (1906-2002) : a retrospective of his life and work / Ross McKinnon, Malcolm Bunzli and Ray Steward; title: Planning for conservation of the Rockhampton Botanic Gardens / John Taylor; title: Cultivating identity : the gardens at Gracemere : a description of a landscape of memory / Laura Emmison; title: Ellis Rowan : flower-hunting in the tropics / Judith McKay; title: Paronella Park : conserving a tropical pleasure garden with ruined concrete structures / Jinx Miles; title: The Oasis : Brisbane's water playground / Glenn Cooke; title: Binna Burra and O'Reilly's : gardens in the Scenic Rim / Jane L. Lennon; title: Tropical gardens : the myth and the reality / Dinah Hansman; title: The evolution of the 'Queenslander' garden / Maurice C. Wilson; title: Palazzo Versace and Couran Cove : contrasting resort gardens of the Gold Coast / Kate Green; title: Roma Street Parkland : past, present and future heritage / Laurie Smith.