Australian native species garden visit: Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne.

This week on The Horti-Culturalists we visit the sensational Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne which holds the Australian native species collection of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. It is a wonderfully designed landscape of over 450 indigenous Australian plant species setting out to challenge any preconceived notions of how to garden with Australian plants. We meet Manager of Horticulture at Cranbourne John Arnott who shares with us the story of the garden from its inception in 2006 to today and reveals the odd failure on the way! Stephen is in his element amongst the Gondwana collection and Matthew discovers there are in fact several native Plectranthus species in Australia!

For more information about Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne visit their website here: https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/cranbourne...

Many thanks to John for his time in showing us this remarkable garden.

The video is timestamped below so you can jump to a part that interests you:

0:00 introduction to Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne
1:56 interview with John Arnott, Manager of Horticulture at Cranbourne
11:12 Macrozamia used a hedge
11:52 Diplolaena grandiflora or Wild Rose
13:04 interview with John Arnott, Manager of Horticulture at Cranbourne
17:09 what are Gondwana plants?
19:34 Eucryphia wilkiei a newly discovered Leatherwood
20:11 Coleus argentatus syn Plectranthus argentatus
21:49 Pimelea physodes or Qualup bell