Exploring the plant library enabling community plant swapping | Discovery | Gardening Australia
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- Опубликовано: 17 фев 2022
- Costa visits a street library for plants near him and meets the plant ‘librarian’ Kelly Parkins. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
Costa of course had to bring some goodies from his garden - an armful of succulent and dracaena cuttings - and he stopped to find out how the library works and help Kelly with the latest ‘loans’.
Kelly has been running the plant library outside her house for two years. She started by putting out a few spare cuttings and they were so popular with neighbours that she developed her own plant library!
Neighbours are welcome to take cuttings from her front garden and visitors include those who have never grown a plant before, to experts who can’t resist propagating and have spare plants to donate.
“I’ve always thought gardens were for sharing and that plants that grow from cuttings are begging to be propagated. If something doesn’t cost you anything, why not share,” she says.
Kelly’s favourite plants are those that are easy for beginners to grow, such as salvias. She has a stunning Salvia ‘Love and Wishes’ that she says flowers nearly all year round and takes easily from cuttings.
Up at the top of her steep block is the propagation station, a sunny area where she propagates her seeds - warmed by a rock shelf that retains the sun’s heat.
The dracaena that Costa has brought is easily propagated - you simply cut off a piece and put it in some sandy mix, keep moist until the roots make the cutting feel solid in the pot.
Other plants are simply stuck in a bottle of water until about 2cm of roots develop. Kelly has fuchsia cuttings that are ready to be potted up and these are added to the tray to go down to the library.
Neighbours Jennifer and Belinda call by to drop off some donations, and get first pick of the new plants on offer.
The community aspect of the library is very popular, with neighbours meeting each other, sharing plant knowledge and helping each other grow.
Featured Plants:
Salvia - Salvia ‘Love and Wishes’
Dracaena - Dracaena fragrans cv.
Fuchsia - Fuchsia c.
Filmed on Gadigal & Wangal Country & Annandale, NSW
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I thoroughly enjoyed this video.
She’s amazing gardener I’ve ever seen in my life☝️✋🏻🙏atsuuup 🤙🏾
Nice garden so therapeutic 🍃🍃🍃
Beautiful Garden 👍👍👍
Awesome
What an amazing community
I literally do this at my house. "Free plant Trade" i call it and ask for the return of pots. Started a year ago but dont advertise it tho
I love the idea. This is so awesome.
I love to come over and just walk thru your garden. I live in Idaho and the weather you never know what you'll get, I am retired only by my health so haveing a hobby I don't have so I am going to start gardening this year and trying out some of the ideas I see on RUclips and build a cattle panel greenhouse just because of the frost we get in the summer and we get snow freak storms. Keep up the videos please Love looking at them.
Wonderful idea!
Wow such a beautiful idea😍
Agreed - Thanks for watching 😊
I am keen gardener very wish to learn and exchange. Very great Id. I have over 200 of orchid and indoor plant some of more than three pot. I live in Paddington Sydney, please where is the location?
Annandale, it's at the start of the video.
Good luck Chao, your collection sounds awesome
Oh come ON, GA, do the right thing for everyone, have these people wear masks and social distance more. The pandemic is an inconvenient truth, I know, but it's helping others to set this example.
Nope. We're done.
It was consistent with the law and medical advice when it was filmed, during that window of opening up shortly before omicron hit. GA scheduled and postponed filming several times in 2021 because the public health orders made a segment like this impossible. I found they were very concerned with doing the right thing, legally and ethically. To me it's more a case that in this pandemic, the "right thing" keeps shape shifting.