Cranbourne Friends Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Inc. in Cranbourne, Victoria | Organisation

Cranbourne Friends Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Inc.

Locality: Cranbourne, Victoria

Address: 1000 Ballarto Road 3977 Cranbourne, VIC, Australia

Website: http://rbgfriendscranbourne.org.au

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25.01.2022 Secretary of the Echuca Moama branch being a celebrity.

25.01.2022 Encourage our beautiful butterflies into your garden with these easy-to-grow host plants. You might have already seen some around

20.01.2022 This beautiful plant is Weeooka (Eremophila oppositifolia). It is often noted as a shrub that grows 1-5m tall, but can sometimes grow up to 10m as a small tree. It prefers full sun and well-drained soil. These flowers are purple, however you can find some that flower in other colours, including white, pink and pale yellow. It attracts nectar-feeding birds, bees and other insects. Photo taken by Janette Wilson in the Arid Garden.

19.01.2022 Thanks to Ollie Sherlock, Conservation Officer at the Cranbourne Gardens, who took these amazing photos. His description is given below: "This afternoon, a couple of male Lowlands Copperheads (Austrelaps superbus) battled it out on the foreshore track just North of Seaford shops. Their bodies entwined in a writhing mass, the duo drew the attention of many curious locals. Copperheads, along with Tiger Snakes (Notechis scutatus) are our two most frequently encountered local 'se...rpents' and are very common along the foreshore, Kananook Creek and in many of our local reserves. Why they engage in 'combat' hasn't been very well researched and understood. Perhaps they are fighting over access to a female for mating, or maybe a dispute over territory. There is so much we are yet to learn and discover about our local flora and fauna! Please note: Lowlands Copperheads and Tiger Snakes are both species regarded as capable of a Dangerously Venomous bite if provoked, harassed or otherwise interfered with. Left alone they are 'harmless' and important components of the ecology of our local ecosystems."

18.01.2022 Join artists Libby Letcher and Erica Wagner for an online Art Adventures afternoon workshop, presented by the Cranbourne Friends, Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria When and where: Sunday November 22nd at 24pm, online (a Zoom link will be provided) Cost: $50 per head.... Booking: Online through Eventbrite (https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/whats-in-the-garden-explori) What to have ready: Pencil or charcoal, paper, eraser, coloured crayon or pastel or highlighter, black fine-liner, ink, or your own preferred materials. What to draw: Your garden or an indoor plant, or any available foliage or flowers (ideally Australian natives). Participants are encouraged to relax, enjoy relating to Nature and have fun, while closely observing and capturing the shapes and colours of flowers and plants. Erica and Libby are keen to help you prepare for possibly drawing in the reopened Gardens, by providing simple strategies to enable you to draw what you see and explore your own individual mark. Workshop Outline: Libby and Erica will demonstrate straightforward approaches to drawing Nature, with a focus on Australian native plants. Minimal materials needed (e.g. pencil, paper are the only essentials). Participants will be encouraged to share their work and ask questions or comment along the way. A link to our Facebook event can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/374031890575347 Photos: Ink drawing by Libby Letcher and charcoal drawing by Erica Wagner.

17.01.2022 This week's Flowering Friday is the beautiful and dainty Boronia 'Tyalge Ruby', a hybrid of Boronia muelleri and Boronia citriodora. This small and hardy shr...ub is compact and can reach a height of about a metre. It boasts fragrant, citrus-scented leaves, and delicate pinkish-white flowers throughout winter and spring. Fascinatingly, Boronia 'Tyalge Ruby' originated in a backyard in Tynong North, Victoria, and is named for the property on which it originated and the applicant's mother. For anyone looking to add beautiful Boronia 'Tyalge Ruby' to their home garden, it prefers full or partial sun and well-drained soil. Find Boronia 'Tyalge Ruby' flowering in the Peppermint Garden at Cranbourne Gardens. : Kaishen Qu

15.01.2022 Absolutely fantastic news! "Scientists and volunteers from Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria have discovered the largest population of Australia’s oddest and most critically endangered fungus on ... French Island, Victoria. Tea-Tree Fingers (Hypocreopsis amplectens) is named for its distinctive, finger-like form that seemingly grips its wooden substrate like a hand. Tea-tree Fingers typically occurs at low densities within its narrow distribution on mainland Australia and is threatened with extinction by fire and unsuitable land- management practices. Until last week, the species was known to occur at only three small sites along the eastern coast of Western Port Bay, and one at Launching Place, where fewer than 20 individual fruit bodies were known to scientists. However, on the first day of the expedition which aimed to find comparable habitat for this distinctive fungus, the team of 16 naturalists, led by Drs Michael Amor and Sapphire McMullan-Fisher, discovered a new population of nine distinct fruit bodies. And further foraging by Gardens’ Horticulturist, Penny Evans, during a lunch break, led to the discovery of the largest-ever recorded population of Tea-tree Fingers, which may contain over one hundred individualsmore than all previous observations made on the mainland, combined. As a result of these findings, French Island is now regarded as the species’ stronghold and its National Park status will hopefully provide some insurance against the increasing likelihood of Tea-tree Fingers’ extinction on the mainland." More information is available via the link below. Friends of French Island National Park French Island Landcare

15.01.2022 This week on Talking Plants, Tim introduces us to the beautiful Southern Sassafras, which boasts aromatic bark and leaves which have a nutmeg odour when crushed.... This specimen was spotted in the Dandenong Ranges, along with a very special guest appearance from a Lyrebird. https://bit.ly/3o8eeOQ See more

13.01.2022 What an amazing sight!

12.01.2022 A big thank you to Professor Tim Entwisle, for being guest speaker at our Annual General Meeting this afternoon. He spoke about Kew Gardens' State of the World's Plants and Fungi Report published this year. For those who are interested in having a read, the link is given below.

12.01.2022 Check out the cutest echidna travelling through one of our new under-road wildlife tunnels at Cranbourne Gardens! The newly installed road ecology project at Cr...anbourne Gardens is up and running thanks to a remarkable effort from the Environmental Systems team, official sponsorship by ACO Australia, and funding from Cranbourne Friends Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Inc. and the Federal Government's Communities Environment Program. The project is protecting precious wildlife from the dangers of traffic with a specially designed combination of 'one-way' wildlife deflection fences, and under-road wildlife tunnels along a stretch of road identified as a hotspot for roadkill across a range of native wildlife species, including federally endangered Southern Brown Bandicoots. Camera monitoring of the tunnels has already shown fantastic uptake by critters including this adorable echidna. This is a great reminder to drive slowly and carefully when you visit Cranbourne Gardens, especially with increased wildlife movement over spring and summer.

12.01.2022 Here is a great video and fact sheet from Gardening Australia about how to germinate native plants using smoke.

11.01.2022 This week’s Flowering Friday is the glorious Eucalyptus oleosa, also known as Oil Mallee. This beauty boasts masses of nectar-rich flowers nestled amongst soft ...new foliage at the tips of its branches, which attract native birds and bees. Growing naturally in the sandy soil areas from the gold-fields region of Western Australia and across southern South Australia into north-western Victoria and south-western New South Wales, Eucalyptus oleosa was used by early European settlers for distilling Eucalyptus oil. This pretty gum is now grown as a windbreak on farms, and to help lower the water table in saline soil areas. Eucalyptus oleosa is currently in bloom on Howson Hill at Cranbourne Gardens.

11.01.2022 Some beautiful silo art, which includes a couple of Thelymitra species.

10.01.2022 A very cute Echidna saying hello at Cranbourne Gardens. : @leannemossportraits

08.01.2022 This week on Talking Plants, Tim introduces us to Eucryphia wilkiei, or Wilkiei's Leatherwood. Originating on the slopes of Mount Bartle Frere in tropical Queen...sland, this unique tropical Eucryphia was first found and collected for science by Jack Wilkiei, an orchid enthusiast, in 1971. Find out more here: https://bit.ly/2UamQus

07.01.2022 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria's #OrchidConservation team discovered that the secret to conserving the endangered Metallic Sun Orchid isn't in the plants you ca...n see, but in the fungi you can't. Click here to support this important work and find out more about the hidden world of the Metallic Sun Orchid https://bit.ly/35Ccirl. See more

07.01.2022 "Social colonies are nothing new in the animal kingdom. We know bees, ants and termites live in large colonies, divide labour and co-operate to take care of offspring produced by a single queen. This behaviour, known as eusociality, has evolved independently in insects, crustaceans (certain species of shrimp) and even some mammals (naked mole rats), but it has never been observed in plants. This suggested plants were somehow less complex than animals. Our study, published thi...s week, turns our understanding of the evolution of biological complexity on its head. It documents the life history of a remarkable species of fern that grows in the tops of rainforest trees on Lord Howe Island, a small volcanic island in the north Tasman Sea. Rather than growing as individual ferns in the treetops, the staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum) lives in colonies, in an adaptation to its harsh habitat high above the water and nutrients stored in the soil below."

07.01.2022 This week on Talking Plants, Tim introduces us to Cauliflower Hakea (Hakea corymbosa), used as a hardy hedge plant in the Australian Garden at Cranbourne Garden...s. As with all hakeas, the seed is kept within the woody fruit kept attached to the bush. The valves only open after bushfire or stress of some other kind, releasing the seed. https://bit.ly/38OVWOb See more

07.01.2022 Thanks Judith for sharing your beautiful photos with us!

05.01.2022 Last week we shared some pink-flowering plants in the Gardens. This week, here are some plants in various shades of yellow. Clockwise from top: Yellow Bloodwood (Corymbia eximia), Yellow Featherflower (Verticordia chrysantha), Urchin Dryandra (Banksia undata syn. Dryandra praemorsa), and Cassinia leptocephala subsp. leptocephala.

05.01.2022 We love this delightful little plant, which was photographed in the Box Garden. It is the Rylstone form of Persoonia chamaepitys. Photograph: Janette Wilson

01.01.2022 Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is helping prevent the extinction of 14 species of threatened orchids that were in the fire-affected areas of the Alps in New Sou...th Wales, East Gippsland and Kangaroo Island, through seed collection, propagation, surveys and research into post-fire herbivory. One of the species we are working to conserve is Caladenia aestiva, pictured here, which is endangered and now found only in a few scattered populations in East Gippsland of fewer than 400 individuals. We are researching post-fire pollination, mycorrhizal associations and propagation. This project is a collaboration with Dr Ryan Phillips of La Trobe University, Dr Noushka Reiter of Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Dan Duval of Adelaide Botanic Garden, and the following partner organisations: Australasian Native Orchid Society - Victorian Group, Native Orchid Society of South Australia, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Australian Network for Plant Conservation, Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Parks Victoria, and Natural Resources Adelaide and Mt Lofty Ranges. The recovery of these orchids is funded by the Australian Government’s Wildlife and Habitat Bushfire Recovery program. : Tobias Hayashi