Garden tour: Edna Walling's Bickleigh Vale village
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- This week on The Horti-Culturalists we were VERY lucky to visit three magical gardens designed by Edna Walling in the early 1920's as part of her Bickleigh Vale village development. It really is a unique environment in Australia and testament to Edna Walling's extraordinary vision and skill and we were fortunate to have three owners allow us free range of their magical gardens so we could make this video for you!
And if you are in Melbourne, Victoria, this weekend of the 12th & 14th Oct you will be able to visit EIGHT of these magnificent gardens as they will all be open as part of the Open Gardens Victoria. You can find out more and make a booking here: opengardensvic...
And if you'd like to know more about Bickleigh Vale village you can here: www.bickleighv...
Many thanks to the home owners who so generously allowed us to visit and film their homes and gardens for this video...and for giving us the most wonderful lunch!
We visit three gardens in this video, all of which will be open this coming weekend: Downderry, Devon Cottage and Lynton Lee.
And if you're interested in joining the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria you can here: rhsv.org.au/
The plants we mention in this video are:
Gaudium laevigatum - Coastal Tea Tree
Fagus sylvatica purpurea - Copper Beech
Amelanchier canadensis
Amelanchier lamarckii
Parrotia persica
Spiraea cantonensis 'Flore Pleno'
Chiranthodendron pentadactylon
Daucus decipiens
Clethra
Babiana angustifolia
Oxalis purpurea
Ixia maculata
Sparaxis
Iris confusa
Rubus 'Benenden'
Jasminum mesnyi
It's always nice to be reminded that the work I'm doing today will only truly be appreciated long after I'm gone. I've spent the last year turning the front entrance of the property into an avenue of proteacea leading past a wide narciussus bed onto a Mediterranean garden and then through to a traditional European orchard.... and in 50 years or so, It will be spectacular. Realistically, I've got way less than 20 years of 'spectacular' left in me...... but hopefully the next generation will be provided with the bones of a lovely garden to work with.
Gardening is definitely a journey not a destination. Regards Stephen
Thank you so much for show casing our village so well….fabulous video…
Thanks for watching. Regards Stephen
What a delightful journey! Thank you for sharing!
Our pleasure. Regards Stephen
What a treat ! Wonderful to learn about Edna & see her hard work, has carried on
Thank you for show casing our village so beautifully..a fabulous video.
Thank you and Mary Anne for the impeccable hospitality. Stephenxxx
Such a lovely places, thanks for sharing
A pleasure. Regards Stephen
A delightful village! ❤
Thank you for showing us around 😊
Thanks for watching!
This is a really interesting video. Thanks. My mum had a great interest in Edna Walling back in the eighties, especially her stonework, and I've collected a couple of books about her gardens myself. ♥🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
Several of the owners do have dogs so I assume its fine. Edna is certainly an important figure in our landscaping history and any books by her or about her would make a good read. Regards Stephen
Thanks team, I’ve subscribed. Look forward to future broadcasts.
Harry
Thanks for joining us!
Very interesting. Planning peoples need to take a look, I can see a lot of positive benefits from estates like this.
I agree although even the proof won’t convince some people. Regards Stephen
Love oxalis. Have one I put on my mother's gave at her funeral but they gave me the pot back and it still grows in the same pot years later. I love them and they grow in the desert heat here. Have a 30 year old wisteria vine on the north side and it's is a trooper shouldering this terrible climate change but I water it every day. Amazing hundred year old vines in bloom. Awesome topic for a video!
Thanks for watching!
Oh these properties are just delightful!! I had not heard of them before. I feel they must be quite magical to see.
Many thanks for your tour.
Thanks for watching!
De inheemse flora van Australië is heel anders dan wat ik gewend ben in noordwest Europa.
Zeer mooi!
Bedankt voor het kijken!
There surely is a RUclips channel in heaven-and it’s called “The Horti-Culturalists.”
Well what can we say to that flattery? Thank you I guess. Regards Stephen
Thank you!
Regarding the natural 'grafting' on the Parrotia persica, I discovered there's a similar phenomenon that occurs between two different trees. Wikipedia says "Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together in a manner biologically similar to the artificial process of grafting."
Yes I’ve seen the same thing although it isn’t as common as this trees tendency o graft itself. Regards Stephen
Hello! my friend.
Hi. The last few videos are streaming at 720p max. I am missing the ultra HD quality especially when looking at gardens. Can you please bring it back.
Nothing has changed with our video formatting.
Sorry if I am being a pest but I need some advice on how to germinate Wollemi pine seeds. Thank you in advance. Gilbert.
They don't need any pre treatment just sow and lightly cover with fine gravel or course sand. Regards Stephen
When you say copper beech I'm assuming you are referring to fagus sylvatica.., European beech....??? Am I correct?? Like Australia sylvatica won't grow here in the southeast US,,,, so I'm experimenting with cultivars that are grafted onto our native fagus grandiflora...grandiflora grows here like a weed so that is why I am trying this..the gurus say it won't work but 3 years in now the tree is fine...time will tell I suppose...also,,,have you thought about 'kew's weeping' as a parottia to try that will stay small ?? I have one that is grafted and it suckers madly so I rooted 2 to try on its own roots to try keeping the suckering at bay...hope it works....m
All interesting stuff and I hope the grafting works. As far as I know we don't have the weeping Parrotia here in Australia. Regards Stephen
Ik heb een grote roodkleurige beuk.
Echter, niet mijn favoriete boom.
Bedankt voor het kijken!