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Haurongo: Smyth, Edmund Owen

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Pae tukutuku

Ted Smyth on Burke’s backyard

This 2012 episode of Burke’s backyard profiles some of Ted Smyth’s gardens, and features interviews with Smyth and his collaborator Ron Sang. The interviewer is Don Burke.

Rārangi pukapuka

Barnett, R.J. & J.A. Margetts. The modern landscape of Ted Smyth: landscape modernism in the Asia-Pacific. Oxon and New York, 2017

Barnett, R.J. & J.A. Margetts. ‘Cross-cultural place: Maori influence in the public landscapes of Ted Smyth’. Cultural Crossroads: The 26th Annual SAHANZ conference. 2009

Baker, B. Contemporary designers’ own gardens. Woodbridge, 2013

Lammerting, K. Inspirational gardens of New Zealand. Auckland, 2010

Telford, D. ‘Ted Smyth’. New Zealand Gardener, Special Edition: 16 distinctive designers, 2004: 76–81

Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jacqueline Margetts rāua ko Rod Barnett. 'Smyth, Edmund Owen', Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, i tāngia tuatahitia ki 2021. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/biographies/231606/sources (accessed 4 June 2026).