Hoffmann advised and supported the Tompkins’ conservation efforts, Kristine Tompkins said in a phone interview, and once joined other conservationists in obtaining the couple’s help in preserving a vast stretch of precious but threatened land on the border of Chile and Argentina.
In the early 1990s, she met Douglas Tompkins, a conservationist and the founder of the North Face and Esprit clothing brands, and his wife, Kristine Tompkins, who together bought about 1 million acres of Chile’s forests to protect them. “I have pictures of myself, very little, always with flowers and plants,” she said. She credited her parents with nurturing her love for nature. She later switched to studying botany when she spent some time in Germany with her mother. Hoffmann went on to study agronomy at the University of Chile before dropping out. 29, 1940, the daughter of a renowned Chilean doctor and scientist, Franz Hoffmann, and pioneering psychiatrist and spiritual guide Lola Hoffmann (born Helena Jacoby). The Boston Globe went onto say that: “she was born in Santiago on Jan. She was somebody special – a Chilean cog in the wheel of climate activists.Īs the Boston Globe noted: The presence of two Chilean Cabinet ministers at her funeral made clear the importance of her legacy to the country, where scientists-turned-politicians are helping to make a new constitution shaped by the climate crisis.Ībove in the title are her last words recorded. “Nature has Given me Love”Īdriana Elisabeth Hoffmann Jacoby has died. The sunburnt country… need I recite more.Īnd as for Elizabeth and her German Garden, gardening is a such a telling metaphor – a brilliant insight. Barely is there any green in these suburbs except thin green verges with the despondent saplings left to their own devices to shrivel in the summer heat with minimal attention. Our modern suburban rooflines seem to be aligned in a manner reminiscent, swathes of grey seen from above. The word was also used to describe the layered way the Roman legion infantry went into battles with the shields interlocked above their heads. Yet as you drive through the newer suburbs of our cities today, the houses consume the whole block with a few pebbles strewn around with a few forlorn plants, labelled drought tolerant. The promotion of gardening has, at times, been subject to controversy, but the very best of presenters induce a hard-to-explain serenity and yet so much of the content is repetition – the vegetable garden, the horizontal wall, the internal garden, the obsessional manicured country garden, build your own hen house, and so on. Her insight is that interest in gardening makes for a satisfied society. The book was a spectacular success on publication, having 21 reprints in the first year. One of these was a bed where plants in every shade of yellow from the fieriest orange to the palest yellow were represented. These observations counterpoint the description of her careful design of her plantings and the descriptions of her results. Her tussle with the gardeners reflects her observation that women were considered inferior, particularly among the workers, and where the women were also often subject to violence. There she bred five children and found satisfaction with organising the garden in this vast property. They lived on a vast Pomeranian property in what is now Poland. This book recounts her life married to a Prussian aristocrat 15 years her senior, whom she describes throughout as the Man of Wrath. Both were Beauchamps, and Elizabeth only lived in Australia for her first three years before leaving, never to return. Elizabeth Von Antrim, a cousin of Katherine Mansfield, was born in Sydney in 1866. In many ways I envy the apparently sybaritic existence of the author’s “ Elizabeth and her German Garden”. I do not have the patience nor the leisured and measured existence to enjoy one anyway. Anyway there was never a true Port Jackson Garden because of resistance by one party to remove the gracefully gnarled exotic frangipani – the survival of which in the end negated that proposal. The pittosporum, the blueberry ash and the lilli pilli, together with some of the native grasses survive.
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There was the vain aim to install a Port Jackson garden, which would have only plants which may have been there at the time Arthur Philip landed at Farm Cove in 1788. The aim when we moved into our house over 30 years ago was to remove the weeds which dominated the garden, and it took about 20 years for the last of the wisteria to go, but asthma weed has defiantly resisted all efforts. I once killed the grass on the terrace with what I thought was loving care when I overused the fertiliser.
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