Aliens from the Garden

摘要: Aesthetic choices made historically by urban gardeners shape Australia’s environment today. In this new project we are using a history of garden tastes to understand the emerging phenomenon environmental weeds. Principally focus on plants that threaten ecological functioning Australian bushland, but putting in context changing aesthetics more generally, since gardener’s wider sensibilities may be at odds with when selecting for private garden. Because Australia is highly urbanised place, vast majority gardens cities and reflect taste, values objectives city-dwellers. George Seddon has commented ‘one most important groups land managers country, ... [managing] than 50 per cent all Australia’. (Seddon 1997: 183)