Celebrating Extraordinary Edna Walling

Celebrate the 130th anniversary of Edna Walling’s birthday (4 Dec 1895–8 Aug 1973), one of Australia's most influential landscape designers.

A graduate of Burnley College, Walling worked as a jobbing gardener before commencing her own landscape design practice in the 1920s. Her expertise as an artist enabled her to produce watercolour plans conveying a warmth and soft ambience to the finished gardens. Low stone walls, wide pergolas and paths, always mellowed with greenery, were Walling’s signatory stamps of her designs.

Trisha Dixon talks about Walling and her extraordinary life, where garden design, photography, conservation and garden writing are shared passions. Trisha’s research into the life and landscape designs of Walling has resulted in a number of books, articles and consultancy on Walling’s remaining gardens.