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As Principal
Landscape Architect, Michael Bligh BLA AAILA is well known as one of the
most experienced and qualified garden designers in Australia. During the last
30 years he has been personally involved with the design of over 3,000
gardens located throughout rural and metropolitan Australia.
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Michael Bligh,
Principle Landscape Architect
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Pejar Park, Goulburn, NSW
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A significant influence
on Michael's work was his upbringing at Pejar
Park, a sheep and cattle property near Crookwell
where his mother, the gardening author Beatrice Bligh, created one of Australia's finest
gardens. In 1965, it was considered the Champion Homestead Garden of NSW.
Recognition of Michael's ability
as a garden designer was his commission by the publishers Random House to
write the first chapter of the Australian Gardening Encyclopedia. This
substantial 15000 word chapter focuses on the design and layout of private
gardens and the book has proved to be a great success for the publishers.
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Today, Michael
lectures widely throughout eastern and outback Australia on various
aspects of garden design. He is a former Executive
Committee member of the Australian Garden History Society, a past Chairman
of its Southern NSW Branch, a Corporate member of the Australian Institute
of Landscape Architects and a former Deputy Chairman of the ACT/Southern NSW branch of Australia’s Open
Garden Scheme. Michael is married with three teenage children, a keen
tennis player and skier being a former Captain of the Ski Club of Australia
and he is developing his own parkland and garden, Summerhill at Goulburn
which was invited to be part of Australia’s Open
Garden Scheme attracting over 400 people in the spring of 2002.
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