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Alison Marjorie Ashby

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and his South Australian-born wife Esther Maria, nÊe Coleman. In 1902, the family moved to a
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from seeds and cuttings. She was an active member of the South Australian branch of the
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From 1944, after both her parents had died, Ashby began to make longer trips to
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Ashby's inherited section of her family's Wittunga property was donated to the
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farming property called Wittunga situated at the foot of the
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Australian Members of the Order of the British Empire
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Index

MBE
North Adelaide
Adelaide
Victor Harbor
Botany
Author abbrev. (botany)

MBE
botanical artist
plant collector
Adelaide
South Australia
property developer
naturalist
Edwin Ashby
Blackwood
Adelaide Hills
Wittunga Botanic Garden
shyness
stutter
hypothyroidism
wildflowers
collect plants
herbaria
propagate
Society for Growing Australian Plants
Southwest Australia
Australian Alps
Victor Harbor
National Trust of South Australia

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