Paul Bangay on Big Garden Design

On Wednesday 30 October at 6pm (for a 6:30pm start), please join us at the Potts Point Bookshop to hear from celebrated landscape designer Paul Bangay about his new book, Big Garden Design, in conversation with Glenmore House's Mickey Roberston. Big Garden Design documents a designer who relishes the challenge of working at scale and the principles of landscape design from the most precise detail to the grandest vista — from grand gardens in France to a forest grown from saplings, join Paul on this tour de force of projects complete with lakes, mountains and walled gardens. We will be serving wine at the event.

Paul Bangay OAM holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Horticulture) from The University of Melbourne. In 1994 he was granted a Victorian Arts Centre travelling scholarship to further his study of landscape design in Europe and the Americas. He won the Mobil Pegasus Award for the best contribution to the Melbourne International Festival of the Arts (1989). In 2001 Bangay was awarded the Centenary Medal for his contribution to public design projects and in 2018 he was awarded a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for service to landscape architecture. Since 2020 he has served as a trustee for Cruden Farm, and since 2018 as an ambassador for Prince's Trust Australia. He is the author of twelve books on garden design.

Interior decorator, gardener, author, chatelaine of Glenmore House… Mickey Robertson left Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs some 30 years ago to fulfil a lifetime’s dream of living in the country. With husband Larry, they restored the collection of vernacular buildings that make up Glenmore House (a once-upon-a-time dairy farm) just to the southwest of Sydney, nestled into the hills of the Razorback Range, around which they created a garden. A longtime advocate for seasonal organic produce, garden-to-plate eating; gardening for health and wellbeing; today Mickey hosts regular small scale events and workshops, writes a weekly Substack post titled ‘at home with Mickey Robertson’, distils Botanical Water and lives and breathes a kitchen-gardening way of life.

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