Myles Baldwin
{{Short description|Australian landscape designer}}
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| education = Newington College
| occupation = Horticulturalist
Landscape designer
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| website = [http://www.mylesbaldwin.com/ Myles Balwin Design]
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Myles Cameron Baldwin (born 6 October 1978) is an Australian horticulturalist, landscape designer, writer and curator of the Australian Garden Show Sydney.[http://www.macquarievisions.com.au/event/ambassadors Macquarie Visions Ambassadors] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110226060447/http://www.macquarievisions.com.au/event/ambassadors |date=26 February 2011 }} Retrieved 27 January 2011. He was named as one of "Australia's top 100 young leaders" by The Australian in 2009,[http://ceps.anu.edu.au/publications/pdfs/media_reports/choo_next_100.pdf What makes a leader] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317162413/http://ceps.anu.edu.au/publications/pdfs/media_reports/choo_next_100.pdf |date=17 March 2012 }} Retrieved 27 January 2011. and in 2010 was the Horticultural Ambassador for Macquarie Visions. Baldwin has worked on Sydney's largest private garden, Swifts, Darling Point, and Government House, Sydney.[http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/nsw/meet-our-hottest-green-thumb-baldwin/story-e6freuzi-1226173941454 Meet our hottest green thumb Myles Baldwin] Retrieved 28 May 2015.
Early life
Baldwin was born in Sydney and grew up in Sylvania. He was educated at Newington College (1991–1996).Newington College Register of Past Students 1863–1998 (Syd, 1999)
Career
Baldwin worked as an horticultural apprentice at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney where he received the Director's Award for Excellence and Achievement. He then assumed the role as head gardener at the heritage property Bronte House, a c1845 Mortimer Lewis cottage in the Sydney suburb of Bronte, New South Wales. Baldwin is director of Myles Baldwin Design Pty Ltd, and has been responsible for designing the period gardens at Boomerang in Elizabeth Bay, the John Verge mansion Lyndhurst in Glebe, heritage-listed home Rona at Bellevue Hill, New South Wales and The Speakers Garden in Parliament House, Sydney.[http://www.collectorsplantfair.com.au/speaker-program/ Collectors' Plant Fair] collectorsplantfair.com, Retrieved 27 January 2011. He has also worked with many of Australia's leading architects on contemporary properties throughout Australia.
Media presenter
Baldwin has appeared on the Today show and Brendan Moar's Gardening Show on Foxtel and was a presenter on Our Place TCN9 and has been the gardening columnist for Sydney's Sunday Herald.
Publications
- Period gardens: landscapes for houses with history by Myles Baldwin with photography by Simon Griffiths (Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2008) {{ISBN|9781740459068}}
- Rural Australian gardens by Myles Baldwin with photography by Simon Griffiths (Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2010) {{ISBN|9781741964707}}[http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Search/Home?lookfor=author:%22Baldwin%2C%20Myles%22&iknowwhatimean=1&filter NLA Catalogue] Retrieved 27 January 2011.
- Australian Coastal Gardens by Myles Baldwin with photography by Sue Stubbs (Sydney : Murdoch Books, 2013) {{ISBN|9781742666204}}
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Category:Australian environmentalists
Category:Australian non-fiction writers
Category:Australian television presenters
Category:Australian landscape and garden designers