Pauline Conolly

Erigeron karvinskianus is commonly known as Seaside Daisy. It’s a hardy perennial that can cope with wind, heat and salt spray.  Now this  doesn’t sound as if it should grow in the Upper Blue Mountains of NSW, but it also copes with frost and snow, and thrives...

In April 1920, Clarice Tucker  (nee Thomas) was a young married woman living at Edenhope in western Victoria, not far from the South Australian border. Her family were from the small town of Inglewood, near Bendigo. It must have lifted Clarice’s heart when a letter from her...

Beatrix Potter was born in 1866.  She experienced  a stultifying. genteel London childhood that caused her to withdraw into her own world. It was a world  that would later be made magical by her artistic talent and love of  nature.  We, and generations before us,  have been...

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