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BALM TO THE SOUL IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

On March 18, 2019 / Blue Mountains / 4 Comments

Tags: Australian native plants, Bathurst, Blue Mountains, Elizabeth Hawkins, Lapstone Hill, Louisa Meredith, Notes and Sketches of New South Wales, Pioneer Women, Sophia Stanger, Springwood, waratahs, Wildflowers of Australia

I have been revising a piece I wrote about pioneering women and their appreciation of Australia’s native flora. Not surprisingly, the Blue Mountains featured heavily. Once the first road was constructed from Sydney through to Bathurst in 1815, intrepid settlers followed. Then the iron ranges echoed To

EVE’S PARADISE: WOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH

On May 11, 2014 / History / 9 Comments

Tags: Banksia, Blackheath, Blue Mountains, Climate Change, Darling Downs, Edna Walling, Eleanor Perenyi, Elizabeth Farm., Elizabeth Hawkins, Elizabeth Macarthur, George Essex Evans, Georgiana Molloy, henry lawson, Jessie Ackerman, Margaret Preston, Parramatta, Pauline Conolly, Sophia Stanger, The Drover's Wife, Thistle Harris, Wattle Bird

EVE'S PARADISE: WOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH

A CELEBRATION OF WOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH UPDATED OCTOBER 2017 The spectre of climate change and periods of prolonged drought have created an upsurge of interest in the growing of Australian native plants. However, we have been slow to embrace them. I suspect this would

Posts Tagged Sophia Stanger

BALM TO THE SOUL IN THE BLUE MOUNTAINS

EVE’S PARADISE: WOMEN IN THE AUSTRALIAN BUSH

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