Growing Australian: domesticating native plants

该项目是对澳大利亚本土植物种植历史和意义的开创性研究。它断言花园在确保环境可持续发展的未来的重要性，并认为，为了促进对环境负责的园艺实践，澳大利亚对本土花园的文化态度的历史必须被理解，因为必须不断抵制园艺与本土植物。 该项目将推动国内和国际的辩论，从关注“本土植物与外来植物”和“本土植物与杂草”，到可以认识到投资于不同园艺实践的文化理念，以及建立想象和改造园艺实践的新方法。

This project is a pioneering study of the history and meanings of growing Australian native plants. It asserts the importance of the garden in ensuring an environmentally sustainable future and argues that in order to promote more environmentally responsible gardening practices, the history of Australian cultural attitudes towards native gardens must be understood, as must the ongoing resistance to gardening with native plants. The project will advance the national and international debate from one concerned with "native plant vs exotic" and "indigenous plant vs weed" to one in which the cultural ideas invested in different gardening practices can be recognised and new ways of imagining and transforming gardening practice established.