Hear how heritage and contemporary design work together in the garden at Buda Historic Home and Garden’s annual Josine McEwan fundraising dinner this month.
This year’s special guest will be landscape architect with the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Andrew Laidlaw.
Andrew is responsible for the design and implementation of numerous landscape projects at Melbourne Gardens, a director of The Diggers Club Board, and the principal designer for the Global Gardens of Peace project.
This year’s lecture looks at how heritage and contemporary design can support each other to provide the best outcomes for our gardens.
History, sustainability, wellbeing, first nations, living collections, health and safety and costs are all part of the complex layers in designing public space we must consider. In this changing world our gardens cannot afford to remain static. Gardens and their management must be creative in what experiences and engagement they provide.
Andrew will draw on his Botanic Gardens and private work and look at ways to find contemporary solutions to energising our landscapes.
The late Josine McEwan was a volunteer in the garden at Buda Historic Home and Garden in Castlemaine.
Knowing how important Buda was to the region and wanting it to remain open for future generations to enjoy, Josine left a generous bequest to Buda when she died in 2006. Since 2007 an annual lecture and fundraising dinner has been conducted in Josine’s memory.
The dinner will be held at 6.30pm on Saturday July 27 and includes a glass of bubbly on arrival followed by a delicious and seasonal three-course winter meal with open bar. To book your ticket for this special event, visit budacastlemaine.org/event/the-josine-mcewan-2024
