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19.01.2022 Flowering Friday this week is the magnificently fragranced Magnolia champaca. Also known as champak, this tree loves tropical environments. The flowers are hig...hly popular due to their strong and lasting fragrance, frequently used as a natural perfume by women to wear or to scent rooms and small spaces. It can be used as a dense screening hedge, an ornamental tree or purely for its strong smelling flowers. It is also popular in timber production to create furniture and cabinets due to its nicely coloured wood. It is highly attractive to birds and insects. You will smell this plant before you see it in the Southern Africa Collection, along the path next to Gardens House in Melbourne Gardens. #FloweringFriday #rbgv #melbourne See more

18.01.2022 Our very first Brillantasia ulugurica thanks to a wonderful and generous donor! Still in the nursery for now but expected to be out in the garden very soon #comingsoon #rbgv #royalbotanicgardensvic #melbourne

18.01.2022 Flowering Friday this week is Epacris longiflora, also known as Fuchsia Heath. The long slender tubular flowers may be seen on the plant throughout the year but... in winter their rich colours brighten up the garden and they provide nectar for the honeyeaters. This open shrub grows naturally in near coastal heathlands of mid and northern NSW and far south Queensland. Happy to grow in the garden, or in a container, it requires dappled shade but doesn’t like to dry out. This plant can be seen in the Home Garden at Cranbourne Gardens. See more

17.01.2022 It's Tulip time. Don't they look beautiful?

16.01.2022 Around 180 nationally rare and threatened Caladenia formosa (Elegant Spider-orchid) will be reintroduced for the first time to the wilds of Victoria this July, ...thanks to funding from the Federal Government’s National Landcare Programme. Dr Noushka Reiter, who manages the Orchid Conservation Program at the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria and her team are working in partnership with Parks Victoria, Trust for Nature, Wimmera CMA, Australian Network for Plant Conservation, Grampians Threatened Species Hub and volunteers from the Australasian Native Orchid Society, to safeguard the future of these species. See more

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14.01.2022 Time to bloom again.

12.01.2022 No, this is not Melbourne Botanic Garden. It is the Butchart Gardens in British Columbia, Canada.

12.01.2022 My fortnightly roundup is now ready for your reading pleasure. https://sites.google.com//Fortnightly-roundup/280920-111020

10.01.2022 Buzz around the Gardens on our ‘Garden Explorer’ and absorb the stunning views, as you learn about beautiful plant collections and what's in bloom this season. ...Hop on and off/take a seat, relax and enjoy the live expert commentary by the friendly drivers who share their knowledge of the Gardens. It is the easiest way to discover the garden, particularly if you have limited time to explore or for those with reduced mobility. For operating times and booking details check out our 'What's on' http://ow.ly/dxot30dAGrf See more

09.01.2022 What a magnificent sight!

08.01.2022 Not all climbers need a big trellis to grow on! Flowering Friday this week is the Pandorea jasminoides ‘Southern Belle’, it is a smaller growing variety of the ...beautiful, large flowered climber. It grows very well in a container. Pruning will encourage long lasting flowers on the new shoots and keep it shrub-like, or train it over a small frame. See this plant growing in an urn in the Water Saving Garden at Cranbourne Gardens. The genus has indeed been named after Pandora of Pandora’s box fame in reference to the many seeds that are released from the seed pods! #FloweringFriday #royalbotanicgardensvic #rbgv See more

07.01.2022 Talking Plants Tuesday this week is about this amazing and somewhat secret rhododendron plant with these spectacular flowers #TalkingPlants ow.ly/qR75300Zcvu

03.01.2022 This violet colour compliments well with yellow, orange and green. Love it!