"Book will reveal the secrets of Melbourne’s mysterious Lost Gardens."

Details regarding the recent discovery of a set of mysterious gardens* in the Melbourne CBD are being kept secret by the garden’s finders. The Lost Garden Found research team is keeping the information quiet until the public launch of a book documenting the exciting details of these natural phenomena on 15 March 2006, as part of the Next Wave Festival.

Illustrations of these strange and wonderful gardens are being artfully woven together in a unique printed volume entitled The Lost Garden Sampler. This publication not only graphically catalogues the previously unknown flora and fauna to be found in the gardens, but will also provide the details of their location.

Never before documented, the gardens are rumoured to be full of strange, exotic and previously unexplored delights - blooming shards of light, sounds creeping around the garden like ivy, views to otherworldly landscapes – a place unlike any other, where nothing is as it seems.

“Fragments of urban myths suggested to us that these ‘lost gardens’ have existed for years” a spokesperson from the research team said, “but somehow they have either evaded discovery or been lost to memory.” Now that the gardens have been found, the opportunity to visit them is expected fleeting.

While the research team are private about the details they have released the names of the
talented people who have worked on this project for over a year: Lachlan Conn, Michael
Fikaris, Mark Gomes, Daniel Jenatsch, Kieran Mangan, Ross Manning, Simon MacEwan,
Simon Pericich, Jean Poole, Michael Rigby, Louise Terry and Anna Tweeddale.

The gardens are unlike any other in existence and their accurate and sensitive documentation
is an important work. To launch this exquisite publication, and to potentially even find The Lost Gardens for yourself, come to....

The Lost Garden Sampler – Book Launch

VENUE: St Jeromes
WHEN: Wednesday the 15th of March 2006
TIME: 7 pm

Media Enquires:
Louise Terry
lostgardenfound@gmail.com
0434 978 812