by Annette Bainbridge, Garden History Research Foundation
20 March 2025, 7.00-8.30 p.m. The Link Room at Hamilton Gardens (entry $5 waged; $2 unwaged – please bring cash!)
Mary Mitchinson (1860-1937) ran the Caledonian Nursery in New Plymouth for over ten years after the death of her husband in 1895. An entrepreneur, medal-winning horticulturist and importer of rare and exotic plants, Mary Mitchinson dominated Taranaki’s garden scene from the mid-1890s into the early twentieth-century. This talk will follow her career, the challenges she faced as a businesswoman in a male-dominated market, her role in expanding the reach of Taranaki nurseries throughout New Zealand and the way in which she helped to shape Taranaki’s 19th-century image as “The Garden of New Zealand”.
The Garden History Research Foundation 
Is the talk available on Zoom? Or will there be a recording. I’d love to hear it but I live in Wellington.
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Sorry Clare – not this time. We are aiming to shift to online talks via Zoom very soon so that we can reach a wider audience. We might have to convince Annette to do this one in that format, as it will be of interest in New Plymouth, particularly.
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