Made some soup from discarded Bunya-bunya ( Araucaria bidwillii) cones recently. Scored each seed with secateurs, boiled for 20 mins, then blended with roast pumpkin (50:50) and stock - delicious!!
And that’s a wrap! I finished up this week after almost 36 years of work at Burnley/Unimelb. While I will miss the beautiful gardens and my wonderful colleagues, I’ll miss the students the most. Teaching in Universities is both a vocation and a craft and I wish it were more highly valued. Burnley has always had the best and brightest horticulture students in the country, long may that continue! I have been very fortunate to have been an educator for so long. Hopefully I’ll maintain a little contact as an Honorary moving forward. Thank you all 🙏 #horticulture #horticultureeducation #burnleygardens #woodymeadowproject
Some spring garden shots after 60 mm of rain on the weekend! I love the combination of the Lychnis and Geum, and the Poa lab with a garland of Hibbertia at its base #naturalisticplantingdesign
Finally found a use for all those Cotinus pollards we prune every winter - a little hurdle, plus nice combo of Leucothoe fontanesiana ‘Rainbow’ and Clivia miniata ‘Yellow’.
And … lots of blues in the garden atm - Ceanothus arboreus ‘Trewithen Blue’, Teucrium fruticans Azureum’, Ajuga ‘Jungle Beauty’ Echium candicans, Lithospermum diffusum ‘Heavenly Blue’, Hyacinthoides x hispanica and Borago officinalis
Go away for three weeks and spring has certainly sprung in our garden, especially the little woody meadow at our entry, inc Isopogon formosa, Alyogyne Blue Heeler, Geranium maderense, Phlox subulata and the intertwining Akebia quinata and Gelsemiun sempervirens - on this harvest moon!
Purnululu or the Bungle Bungles has been a highlight on this trip, lots of great flowers too including - Ptilotus exalatus in the foreground of an amazing sunset, then Solanum carduiforme, Grevillea wickhamii, Grevillea pteridifolia, Trichodesma zeylanicum, Gossypium australe, Acacia tenuissima, Crotalaria cunninghamii and Atalaya hemiglauca or White Wood. The White Wood at Danggu or Geikie Gorge was alive with bees, insects and birds, just incredible.
