Petrichor Collaborative

Introducing Petrichor Collaborative Check out our website! Link in bio #landscapearchitecture #ecologicaldesign #landscapedesign #sustainabledesign #ecosystems #landscapeinfrastructure #frogs

On the 23rd of May as part of Melbourne Design Week we are partnering with National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to present Hidden Waters of the Birrarung. We will be exhibiting the artworks created as part of our ongoing Hidden Waters series, created in the landscapes of Como Park Billabong, Queen Victoria Gardens, Bouverie Creek and Carlton Gardens. As part of the exhibition, we will host a panel discussion with Maddison Miller, Justin Buckley, Janet Bolitho and Jakobi Ili-Jakobi. For more information and tickets visit National Trust (Vic) website or follow link in our bio. ____ Melbourne Design Week is Australia’s largest and leading annual design festival and takes place from 14–24 May 2026. The 2026 program spans 11 days of 400+ events, exhibitions, talks, and installations throughout metropolitan Melbourne and regional Victoria. Visit designweek.melbourne to view the full program. #MelbourneDesignWeek #NGV #CreativeVic #CreativeState @NGVMelbourne @Creative_Vic

Join us this Thursday 5:30pm at MPavilion Parkville as we gather to share the artworks collaboratively created by those that joined us for the Hidden Waters of the Birrarung: Eel and Wombat Season Walks over the past few months. We will be reflecting on the many stories that have been shared about this landscape, as well as the layers and connections that have emerged through walking and making together.

On the 23rd of May as part of Melbourne Design Week we are partnering with National Trust of Australia (Victoria) to present Hidden Waters of the Birrarung. We will be exhibiting the artworks created as part of our ongoing Hidden Waters series, created in the landscapes of Como Park Billabong, Queen Victoria Gardens, Bouverie Creek and Carlton Gardens. Each canvas is a collective response to place, capturing First Nations perspectives and community vision as a way of reframing the treatment of these urban environments. As part of the exhibition, we will host a panel discussion with Maddison Miller, Justin Buckley, Janet Bolitho and Jakobi Ili-Jakobi. For more information and tickets visit National Trust (Vic) website or follow link in our bio. *** Dear artwork contributors, if you would like to attend please send us a DM so that we can pass on a discount code for $10 tickets.

MIFGS Nocturnal Invertebrate Surveys Thank you to @petrichor_collaborative @royalbotanicgardensvic and @melbflowershow for supporting two nocturnal invertebrate surveys across both The Plantcestors Garden and The Indigenous Garden - Wurundjeri Biik Baan, which featured an incredible array of indigenous plants from across Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung & Bunurong Country including many that our local critters need throughout their lives. Cutie crawlie enthusiasts learned how to get involved in citizen science via @inaturalistorg , with special guests @kai_lane__ @beesandblossoms.aus and @gio.fitzpatrick sharing their expertise. Special thanks to @heartscapes_org for providing copies of the recently launched Insects of Melbourne Guide - an invaluable resource for budding entomologists which can be purchased via the Heartscapes website. We were beyond thrilled to have a Bogong moth (Agrotis infusa) make an appearance at our survey - check out @beesandblossoms.aus and @habitat_warriors post on the importance of this endangered species, and consider joining the @entsocvic and an upcoming @ywna.community survey to learn more about this wondrous world 🦋🪲🐛 Coordinated by @earthseed_oz Plantcestors by @treasuringourtrees & @earthseed_oz Wurundjeri Biik Baan by @wurundjeri @royalbotanicgardensvic @skl_gardens @petrichor_collaborative #mifgs #mifgs2026 #invertebratesurvey #nocturnalinvertebratesurvey

Wurundjeri biik bolin bolin is now open at the Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. Designed in collaboration with Wurundjeri elders and representatives, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, SKL Gardens and Petrichor Collaborative, the garden evokes bolin bolin billabong and invites show attendees to gather on country. Throughout the week we will be hosting a number of talks and education sessions on culture, ecology, horticulture and design. The full program is available on the @melbflowershow website. Photo: @nathanstolz

We are excited to share the Wurundjeri biik bolin bolin Indigenous Garden program at the 2026 Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show. Across five days of the show, the Indigenous Garden comes alive with a rich program of talks, education sessions and guided experiences. This year’s garden draws its inspiration from bolin bolin billabong, a billabong within the Yarra Flats in Bulleen and one of the most resource-rich and culturally significant landscapes in Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Country. For countless generations, bolin bolin has been a gathering place, a site of communal feasting, trade, ceremony and the enduring bonds of community. See you there!

The Birrarung never left. It’s just been paved over, redirected and engineered. 💧 Join Petrichor Collaborative for a guided walk across UniMelb to uncover the hidden ecologies running underneath your lecture theatres. 📆 Thursday 16 April 🕚 11am to 1pm 🔗 More at the link in our bio

It's said that beneath @unimelb ’s Parkville campus, there are eels moving through the drains. The Birrarung never left. It’s just been paved over, redirected and engineered. But the old river red gums are still here and the wetlands still flood. Join Petrichor Collaborative [tag] for a guided walk across UniMelb to uncover the hidden ecologies running under your lectures and laneways. 📆 Walk 1: Thursday 5 March, 11am to 1pm 📆 Walk 2: Thursday 16 April, 11am to 1pm 📆 Reflection: Thursday 30 April, 5.30 to 6.30pm

Presenting tomorrow at the 2026 Victorian Biodiversity conference on the topic; advocating conservation through first peoples storytelling and landscape design.

This small garden sits along a shallow gully in Camberwell and is inspired by the underlying characteristics of this landscape. Recycled brick paving with decomposed granite is used to create a porous, highly inviting garden space that ebbs and flows through seasonal periods of flowering, growth and recession. The local planting is unirrigated, can sustain dry periods and will even produce herbs and berries for the kitchen across the year. We eagerly await photos of the next flushes of growth in the coming months. #gardendesign #nativegarden #bushfood

Thank you to everyone that made it out to our event on Saturday and a special thank you to Uncle Robbie Thorpe for sharing your knowledge of this place, its hidden memory and for guiding us to understand what commitment to truth and sovereignty takes. Knowing what this place was, knowing what it still is, is a critical first step in towards a future with more culturally grounded landscapes that can tell these stories and lessons and pass them onto the future. If you would like to stay up to date with Uncle Robbie and Camp Sovereignty’s work check out @crimesceneaustralia And thank you to @matjlynn for capturing these photos.