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Good landscape designers create gardens that are a joy to be in; great landscape designers create gardens that endure throughout the years. To many, Edna Walling, who worked prodigiously between the 1920s and 1960s, is the greatest landscape designer that Australia has known. Her writings and garden designs continue to be influential and inspirational. But what of the gardens designed so many years ago? Do foxgloves still 'gatecrash' and forget-me-nots 'romp merrily'. Have the shrubberies developed as intended and the stands of trees matured gracefully?Trisha Dixon and Jennie Churchill, armed with notebook and camera, set out to record as many of Edna Wailing's gardens, in their maturity; as they could trace. The result is a beautiful testament to an extraordinary creative talent.Ranging from the mellowed stonework of the great gardens at Durrol and Mawarra to the sweeping, tree-filled vistas of country gardens now come of age like those at Kiloren and Kildrummie; from elegant mystery in city gardens to small fragments that have endured time in country cottage gardens, Gardens in Time follows in seven-league footsteps. Here are gardens that have endured and are a joy to be in. And here is continuing inspiration and delight.