As part of the Australian Heritage Festival, this panel of landscape and garden experts will share their knowledge and opinions on the importance of heritage gardens and landscapes. Our panellists will discuss what heritage gardens and landscapes are, their sustainable secrets and what we need to do to protect and conserve them.
The event will be held during the Botanica Festival, a celebration of our natural environment, gardening and sustainability, held on Sunday 19 May 2024 at Rippon Lea Estate. Entry to the event, including the panel discussion, is by gold coin. The Panel Discussion will take place by the Boat Shed.
This panel event is proudly supported by the Heritage Council of Victoria.
Moderator:
Maddison Miller is a Darug woman and Lecturer in Ecological Knowledge at the University of Melbourne. Maddi is an accomplished archaeologist, with experience in deep time and historical archaeology as well as heritage management. She is deeply interested in connecting many ways of knowing to care for Country.
Panellists:
Annette Warner is a registered Landscape Architect and Associate with GbLA Landscape Architects. Annette has more than 16 years’ experience working on a diverse range of heritage garden projects in the public and private sectors as a horticulturalist and design practitioner. Her work may be seen at the Royal Botanic Gardens – Melbourne Garden, Parliament House and The Kelly Family House in Beveridge. Annette also has 10 years’ academic teaching and research experience in landscape architecture and design. Her PhD, nearing completion, examines Gordon Ford’s natural Australian Garden through his personal archive, adjacent to developing a curatorial methodology for research on the relationship between the garden and the archive.
Lucas Dean is a Senior Associate at Landscape Architecture and Urban Design firm Taylor Cullity Lethlean (TCL). With over a decade of experience in complex landscape settings, Lucas has worked on botanically rich projects including Girgarro Botanical Gardens, garden upgrades at Australian Garden, Cranbourne Botanical Garden, and Parliament of Victoria Rooftop Annexe. Lucas has a commitment to award-winning innovative landscape architecture design, creative built outcomes, and botanically diverse approaches with an interest in diverse and significant Australian flora through working on complex garden and civic landscapes.
Justin Buckley, Executive Manager – Gardens and Landscapes. Justin is responsible for the care and management of the National Trust’s garden and environmental heritage sites throughout Victoria.
Rippon Lea House and Gardens