Monstera is seriously delicious as its scientific name suggests - just watch out for the occasional cheeky tingle from calcium oxalate crystals #monsteradeliciosa #tropicalfruit #messyeating #monsterafruit #swisscheeseplant #tasteslikebubblegum #raphides #calciumoxalatecrystals #araceae

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All my sunflowers have decided to face my neighbour’s fence this year and ignore me completely - plenty of privacy for bees, no aesthetic pleasure for me #sunflowers #facingthewrongway #turnaroundplease #beeheaven #gardenmishaps #summergardening

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We have lift off - Pudding Time! #christmaspudding #magicpudding #sometraditionsneverdie #seventieskitchen #helpingmum #focusface #dontdropit

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When Leeks are flowering they seem to have the physiology of a succulent- dig them up from an abandoned student plot, shove them in the back of a station wagon and then re-set in one’s garden for their beautiful allium star-ball flowers and future seed supply, no transplant shock! These Leeks also wish everyone Happy Summer Solstice! #leeks #alliumporrum #alliumflowers #notransplantshock #likeasucculent #longestday #summersolstice2017

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Peaches and nectarines nearly ripe...picking and eating them is written into my position description and an arduous part of my academic workload #stonefruit #peaches #nectarines #prunuspersica #burnleyfieldstation #fringebenefits #perksofthejob👌 #urbanfruittrees #idoshare

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Where the energy is free and the Rocket for your salad grows like a weed (literally)... #wildrocket #diplotaxistenuifolia #offthegridfarm #solarpanels #edibleweeds #warnambool #prechristmasbreak

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Where the energy is free and the Rocket for your salad grows like a weed (literally)... #wildrocket #diplotaxistenuifolia #offthegridfarm #solarpanels #edibleweeds #warnambool #prechristmasbreak

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Planting two Wampi fruit trees at Burnley today. A coffee plant got blasted by frost here this winter, I hope these trees will do better. (Note the perfect watering berms created by volunteers Tess and Amy!) #wampee #clausenalansium #tropicalfruittrees #rutaceae #plantingtrees #wateringtrees #feeltheberm #hashtagpun

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Kurrajongs and Jacarandas showing off at the Edinburgh Gardens #brachychitonpopulneus #jacarandamimosifolia #dryrainforest #australianplants #plantsofbrazil #treeswithflowers #summerfloweringtrees #bignoniaceae #malvaceae #flowersontheground

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What to plant ‘down the side’? An eternal gardening question...here freshly planted Taro with Rhubarb; this is on sandy loam with drip irrigation, productive enough over several years to convert my Mum to Taro as a handy, perennial staple #downtheside #shadetolerant #taro #rhubarb #colocasiaesculenta #xanthosomasagittifolium #novelcrops #novelcropsproject #panc #plantasalimentíciasnãoconvencionais #novelecosystem

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Brand new Avocado leaves on a perfect summer’s day #avocadoleaves #perfectbluesky #perseaamericana #rainmakesplantshappy

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Off the nursery trolley into the back of the ute - more sweet potatoes heading out, this time to @fareshare_australia with Susie Scott for Victoria Park and the Baguley Farm! #fareshare #urbanagriculture #growingfood #volunteers #sweetpotatoes #foodsecurity

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It’s a great feeling when your former student and colleague returns to Burnley wearing the High Viz - now professionally employed in Urban Horticulture and picking up Sweet Potatoes to plant in a public space in Eltham! #gotagoodjob #urbanhorticulture #burnleycampus #nillumbik #ornamentalsweetpotato #highvizninja

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My first Day Lilly for summer - such indestructible plants: shade, sun, dry soil, wet soil (handy!) and beautiful edible flowers and flower buds #hemerocallisfulva #daylillies #edibleflowerbuds #summerflowers #superplants #toughplants

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I’m not getting off the floor until these Broad Beans are shelled #broadbeans #shellingbroadbeans #veggieglut #mustgetmotivated

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Be gentle La Niña #cloudsbrewing #lañiña #bigraincoming #summerstormclouds #pandoreapandorana #excitedbutnervous #melbourneweather

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La Niña - welcome back!!! My Taro says hi and don't stop all summer!!

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Hanging, harvested garlic #alliumsativum #hanginggarlic #tunicate #vampirefreezone #flufreezone

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Living high on clouds of carrot flowers #ladybirds #insectsonflowers #carrotflowers #apiaceae #daucuscarota #invertebratesrule #burnleyfieldstation #goingtoseed

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In clover #trifoliumrepens #bedofclovers #fabaceae #legume #nitrogenfixer #dontmowthelawn #beeforage

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The Swamp Hibiscus doth emerge behind the rising plates of Lotus leaves #gothicplant #lotusleaves #swamphibiscus #hibiscuscoccineus #nelumbonucifera #plantsofvirginia

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The Swamp Hibiscus doth emerge behind the rising plates of Lotus leaves #gothicplant #lotusleaves #swamphibiscus #hibiscuscoccineus #nelumbonucifera #plantsofvirginia

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Home to summery Melbourne and the Urban Horticulture 1st year undergrads finishing their exams - after Brazil I have a lot of marking to do! #examsareover #burnleycampus #burnleygardens #lastoftheirkind #markingisfun #helpimdrowning #veryjetlagged #goodbyebrazil

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Having a ball at Copacabana #copacabanabeach #ballinthewater #wavebreaking #atlanticbeach #brasil #riodejaneiro

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It’s hard to capture these beautiful, narrow tree-lined streets in Rio, their intimacy and light, this will have to do #treesofrio #streetsofrio #streettrees #urbantrees #urbangreening #arboriculture #urbanforest

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It’s hard to capture these beautiful, narrow tree-lined streets in Rio, their intimacy and light, this will have to do #treesofrio #streetsofrio #streettrees #urbantrees #urbangreening #arboriculture #urbanforest

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A home-cooked meal last night with my Novel Crops Project super volunteer Heloisa (now back in Rio) and her Mum, Regina. Thanks so much for the traditional food, most of it organically grown! #braziliancooking #panc #dinnerinriodejaneiro #agrotoxiconao #brazilorganic

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After a week and a half of hardcore hotel breakfasts I’m hitting the homemade gym at the end of Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro #homemadegym #missmybike #rioisbeautiful #ipanemabeach #needexercisenow

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Plant-people themed art at the University of São Paulo #artofbrazil #studentartwork #campusart #modernism #universityofsaopaulo

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Today I received a fantastic gift from my colleague here in São Paulo, Thais Mauad - Brazil’s bible on ‘unconventional food plants’...I’ve barely recovered from discovering...I can hardly write this...that the dreaded Moth Vine or False Choko is edible and ‘deliciosos’! #gobsmacked #mindblown #honestlycantbelieveit #panc #edibleweeds #canigothere #translationneeded #novelcrops #araujiasericifera #agroecology

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Today I received a fantastic gift from my colleague here in São Paulo, Thais Mauad - Brazil’s bible on ‘unconventional food plants’...I’ve barely recovered from discovering...I can hardly write this...that the dreaded Moth Vine or False Choko is ‘deliciosos’! #gobsmacked #mindblown #honestlycantbelieveit #panc #edibleweeds #canigothere #translationneeded #novelcrops #araujiasericifera

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Today I was so privileged to have lunch with and made by legendary nutritionist, cook and gardener Neide Rigo (on the left) at her beautiful home in Citi Lapa, São Paulo - the ‘novel crop’ movement is powering along in Brazil! #novelcrops #panc #plantasalimentíciasnãoconvencionais #neiderigo #fermentedfoods

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In Parque Villa Lobos, São Paulo, in the new area - the revegetation to the left going well, the instant turf not so well #urbanparks #revegetation #instantturf #sodgrass #cityscapes #parquevillalobos

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Planting Air Potato Yams as Day One jet lag cure in small, community garden in west São Paulo #urbanagriculture #saopaulo #communitygarden #urbanpermaculture #fightingoffjetlag

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Just a bunch of bananas trying to escape- nothing to see here #burnleyfieldstation #burnleycampus #harvestingbananas #springclouds #springsky #wetclouds #everydaysight

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Do you come here often? #strelitziareginae #brightflowers #floraofsouthafrica #warmday☀️ #backyardflowers #palingfence

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Novel veggies- fresh green Tilia leaves, tops of Egyptian Walking Onions and Purple Orach leaves #novelcrops #panc #tiliacordata #alliumproliferum #atriplexhortensis #malvaceae #eatingtreeleaves #unusualvegetables #perennialvegetables #selfsowngarden

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Plumbing the mystery of Kikuyu and Buffalo Grass...which is which? #planttest #exampractice #plantid #pennisetumclandestinum #stenotaphrumsecundatum #tinysamples #turfgrass #burnleycampus

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Here come the Sweet Potato slips - bottom heat works its magic! #sweetpotatoslips #burnleynursery #propagatingplants #growmypretties #growyougoodthings

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The Melbourne skyline from steep Walmer Ave, Kew - the big chimney is from the CUB brewery blowing the smell of hops across the city, absent from the beer itself... #melbourneskyline #sunsetovercity #smokestack #editorialising #rudecomment

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Helping my Masters student de-stress from thesis presentation prep for tomorrow: offer her taste testing opportunity with first ever crop of Burnley grown bananas #burnleycampus #tinybanana #procrastination #verdictdelicious #thesispresentation

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Precious haul of Yam Daisy seed grown by Urban Horticulture student in the Burnley veggie plots #microserislanceolata #yamdaisy #bushfoods #seedcollecting #indigenousfoods #asteraceae #burnleyfieldstation

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Awesome students from the Patch Primary School showing my students around the environmental landscape they design, manage and maintain themselves (with some help from force of nature Michelle Rayner and friends/colleagues!) #schoolgardens #kidsincharge #environmentaleducation #thedandenongs #prostantheraovalifolia #sustainableschools #excursion

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I am possum - hear me roar! #brushtailpossum #trichosurusvulpecula #daytimepossum #spottedgum #treefork #codominant #burnleycampus

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Drive-by Wisteria hysteria - portrait with bollard #wisteria #purpleflowers #bollards #wisteriasinensis #burnleycampus #rearviewmirror

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First Loquat, October 1st! It was delicious! #eriobotryajaponica #loquat #earlyfruit #springfruit #feraltrees #urbanfruittrees #urbanecology #subtropicalfruit #burnleycampus

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Family Grand Final Day means providing Taro tubers to my Mum in exchange for party pies. Go Tigers! #partypies #taro #foodswap #aflgrandfinal2017 #traditionalfood #novelcrops

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Black poles #eucalyptussideroxylon #jacksonpollock #obscurereference #ironbarktree #blackbark #urbantrees #cityofyarra #treesasart

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Bizarro veggies? Hosta shoots and translucent Toona leaves, one like Asparagus the other oniony with umami 'notes' #eatinghostas #hosta #toonasinensis #springveggies #novelcrops #ediblelandscape #asianveggies #edibletrees #pinkleaves

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These big Canary Island Daisy flowers say: Happy Equinox everybody! It's so balmy today my head is exploding. We made it, winter is dead! #springequinox2017 #southernhemisphere #sonchusacaulis #canaryislandsplants #daisyflowers #springflowers #balmyweather

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