The Australian Home Beautiful, and by the mid-1930s had become an expert photographer in order to illustrate her articles. By the 1950s, Walling had stopped producing her regular column for The Australian Home Beautiful, but continued to write occasional articles for Walkabout, Woman's World, Australian House and Garden, The Sun News-Pictorial and The Age. She continued to send articles to editors until shortly before her death. The Happiest Days of My Life, covering the development of her holiday property at Lorne, was written by Walling but not published until 2008. She was the author of several books on landscape design, and she and garden writer and botanist Jean Galbraith enjoyed a long correspondence, generating materials for an unpublished manuscript 'The Harvest of a Quiet Eye'.: Personal life Walling never married and called herself a ‘misfit’ or ‘odd’, and as she dressed in a masculine manner and cropped her hair short, male clients were unsure how to react to her. Though she had long working association with Eric Hammond and Ellis Stone, her succession of female assistants and close relationships with women including Esmé Johnston and poet Lorna Fielden and friendships with other women who lived openly in a partnership, like bookshop owner Margareta Webber with Dr Jean Littlejohn, and landscape architect Mervyn Davis (her name was Welsh) and Daphne Pearson, have led some researchers to the conclusion that she was lesbian, though Walling herself, who lived through Australia’s more conservative, homophobic cultural period, made no such admission. A design commission prompted her move to Bendles in Buderim in Queensland 1967, where she was later joined by her companion Lorna Fielden, who had been a teacher at MLC and also edited Walling's writings. Walling died at Nambour on August 8, 1973, and Lorna 4 years later; she and Edna are buried there side by side under two trees. References Further reading External links Edna Walling website produced by Tantamount Productions and the State Library of Victoria for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) Edna Walling's Manuscript 1895 births 1973 deaths Australian gardeners Australian landscape or garden designers Garden writers Women horticulturists and gardeners 20th-century women scientists Horticulturists Australian women photographers 19th-century Australian women 20th-century Australian women