Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne: Guilfoyle's Volcano
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
- This week on The Horti-Culturalists a very special visit to the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne to meet Andrew Laidlaw, the garden's Landscape Architect, and be taken on a tour of one of the more remarkable features of the garden, Guilfoyle's Volcano! Andrew will explain just what this incredible piece of infrastructure, folly and climate sensitive landscape design actually is and its equally interesting history! Andrew lead the team to reinvent this once abandoned area of the gardens and give it a new and highly practical purpose.
We have a play list of the other videos made in the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne which you can see here: • ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS ...
The plants we mention in this video are:
Cleistocactus winteri
Echinocactus grusonii - Golden Barrel Cactus
Ceiba speciosa - kapok
Bismarckia nobilis
What a fascinating episode. So good to learn of the creative way of dealing with and revitalising a neglected heritage area. And how timely that you (Stephen) should be our special guest this coming Saturday and Andrew is our special guest in July! We look forward to welcoming you both.
Glad you enjoyed it. I have to say I learnt a lot from the interview as I had no idea of the background of this space. Regards Stephen
Thanks for taking me back to Melbourne Botanical Gardens. I spent an entirely delightful afternoon wandering around it way back in 2009. This is all new since then of course. A pleasure to see it.
Thanks for watching!
Great to see you both at the Royal Horticultural day yesterday. Hopefully you increase your numbers and gain a legion of new fans. Definitely will be watching you moving forward.
Lets hope so and thanks for coming on board. Regards Stephen
Thanks Stephen & Matt really unique gardens & design process cactus covering. Really original
Happy gardening 👍🌸🐝
Our pleasure! Regards Stephen
I was thrilled to find a fully mature Ceiba (Chorisia) flowering opposite the entrance to the Caravan Park in Iluka on a trip to Brisbane years ago. And there are several in the Sydney Botanical Gardens flowering on previous visits. Magnificent flowers!
Aren't they! Thanks for watching!
Very interesting video. Thank you so much for sharing. Except for the volcano, I thought I was back in Arizona🤠Actually, but here I am in Washington in timber country.❤
Glad you enjoyed it! Regards Stephen
What a marvelous way to cleanse and preserve water. And to have the vision to reclaim that area of waste ground--!
Thanks for sharing, as I don't know whether I will ever get there from Indiana USA.
Glad you enjoyed it. You have at least seen it through our eyes. Regards Stephen
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Fascinating episode, now l will revisit to see the volcano. Thx guys
Good it has greater depths than you would imagine. Punn intended. Regards Stephen
Very interesting video, thank you. Watching here in Cardiff, Wales UK
Glad you enjoyed it. Regards Stephen
So beautiful
Thanks for watching!
Just letting you know of another follower Steve.
Thanks for joining us!
He's talking about the plant that had taken over and I can't understand what he's saying...is he saying pittosporum ??? It's the accent.
If so,,, are pittosporum a bit invasive for you all ??? I saw a strange pittosporum species in Raleigh NC in southeast US that I never knew the species. It was at tall tree that had white bark which was beautiful. That tree is no longer and I wish I knew it's species. If you have a guess, let me know...m
Yes Pittosporum and it can be a bit invasive even though it is an Australian native but outside its habitat and a serious weed in some countries such as the Azores and Madeira. Regards Stephen
Any guess as to which pittosporum I saw with the sparkling white bark and is a tree...it's been taken out since but I really thought it attractive....
Wow ... Water islands, who knew....not me. How fabulous. This is how our mains tap water should be treated to get rid of all the carcinogenic chemicals that we are expected to drink and wash in. I knew of a 13 year old boy about 7 year's ago whom became allergic to water. He couldn't even take a shower with Adelaide tap water. I've been saying for decades to get the flouride out of our water which by the way does not stop tooth decay, that is a lie.
Mr Laidlaw should be working with the Australian Government and the purification of our water.
Glad it got you thinking as all innovative things should. Regards Stephen
Matthew, I think you are thinking of chinampas?
YES! That's it!! I knew I wasn't delusional! Thanks for watching!
@@thehorti-culturalists 😂 Love watching, you and Stephen are as glorious as the gardens you show : )
Lmao I have to ask what exactly is "cooch" that'd be coming up in the cacti?
It's a local grass!
@@thehorti-culturalists thank you for clearing that up my mind was in the gutter of coarse