Garden Tour: Maranoa Botanic Garden
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- Опубліковано 4 жов 2024
- This week on the Horti-Culturalists we're taking a tour around the wonderful Maranoa Botanic Garden, perhaps Australia's oldest native plant botanic garden! We talk to Head Horticulturalist Andrea Dennis to learn about the history of the garden and then take a look at the key design elements that sets this garden apart and a look at some of the wonderful plants found there!
You can find the Maranoa Garden web site here: www.boroondara...
And many thanks to Andrea and the team for their time and for allowing us to rummage around in the pouring rain!
The plants we mention in this video are:
Lophostemon confertus 'variegata'
Lomandra
Xanthorrhoea
Doryanthes or Gymea Lily
Lepidozamia peroffskyana
Dendrobium speciosum
Asplenium bulbiferum
Corymbia maculata
Eucalyptus scoparia
Guichenotia macrantha
Isopogon cuneatus
Thanks for braving the cold damp to bring us the tour. I am sad that I visited Melbourne decades ago before I was a gardener and didn't tour any gardens like this one.
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A road to visit the garden without leaving the car! Another beautiful and original landscaping idea... which has the advantage of staying dry when it rains! Regards Jean Lou
Yes we should have just done a drive through! Regards Stephen
Thanks for the tour!
Very welcome!
I’ve been to that garden. It’s a beauty in the midst of a lovely area. Well worth a visit
It really is! Regards Stephen
Thank you for the tour. I agree with both of you that varigation on most of the varigated plants make them look diseased.
Matthew will like to know he has a kindred spirit. Regards Stephen
Looks like Paradise.
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Oh beauty - this garden is amazeballs. They've got some of the most incredible WA acacias to grow there - they're masters..
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it is a really magical place. very effective layering of textures and shapes at different eye levels and not overly pruned so you are able to see the seed pods and more architectural qualities of the branches. some highlights for me: there is a royal hakea in the arid zone, as well as flannel flowers and i think a bushy yate with it's bizarrely shaped seed pods. a red wattle and a christmas bush in temperate woodland and lots of attractive shrubs. near the garden's office there is a native raspberry and a macadamia tree. it gets quite wild in the rainforest area and there is a wall of some kind of creeping plant near to the creek crossing, large stream lilies that when flowering collapse under their own weight into the water, palms of which kind im not too sure. many other interesting things. and one of it's triumphs is the large stenocarpus sinuatus aka firewheel tree near the entrance on kireep road. it is so vivid when it flowers in summer, the red flowers set against the green foliage and the blue sky. we used to go there during uni to drink and smoke and hang out, it felt quite psychedelic in summer and always just a few groups of people. thanks for the video. hopefully it remains quiet and non-commercialised. :)
A pleasure and I'm glad it brings back fond memories. Regards Stephen
An other great garden tour! I'll put Maranoa on my list to visit. I hope you can put Williamstown Gardens on yours.
Good idea. We’ll consider it. Regards Stephen
I've got a monday shorts question!
The September winds unfortunately snapped and ruined a young Euc. Tetraptera and its ended up as a stick. I know we can expect it to re-shoot from the lignotuber, but how far down to we cut the main stem/trunk.
Thanks for your great content!
Even though you're in the opposite side of the world, I'm curious if you have vegetable bed cover crop recommendations. (In Vancouver BC Canada we have a similar-ish climate to yours.)
Any legume would be good so Peas annual lupins etc. should work. Regards Stephen
I have a similar looking plant as the xanthoreia , a yucca called linearifolia which is one of my favorite plants... It is a smaller plant though... Is the xanthoreia related to nolina.???..I have one nolina that isn't very happy yet the yucca is quite happy....
The Nolina is in the Asparagus family believe it or not and the Xanthorrea is in the Asphodelus family so not related. Regards Stephen
@@thehorti-culturalists is agave in the asparagus family as well.???..when it blooms it sends up that asparagus looking shoot...of course it may have changed but I seem to remember agave & asparagus being related??? What else is in the asphodelus family??? I've never heard of it....