Little Shop of Horrors but in a nice way. When Abyssinian Bananas start flowering they always remind me of Audrey II in Little Shop of Horrors , allegedly and apparently the most performed musical in the world. I saw a great performance of this years ago at the Cardinia Cultural Centre in Pakenham. Spoiler Alert: it’s about a small florist/nursery where one of the plants starts talking and growing exponentially and eats everyone. In fact I think it takes over the world but I can’t remember. Anyway, Abyssinian Bananas or Enset won’t eat you and are awesome. These two at the Northcote Pool are flowering at the same time so we should get fruit and therefore seed from them - if they get this all done before the Northcote is closed for redevelopment, earmarked for this year some time 😢 #littleshopofhorrors #audreyii #uncannylikeness #dontbeafraid #spoileralert #giantflower #giantherbaceousperennial #enseteventricosum #abyssinianbanana #plantsofeastafrica #plantsofethiopia #perennialvegetables #perennialedibles #poolgarden #novelcrops #panc #monocarpic #floweranddie #letthemrule

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Off to market...Steve Nelson and apprentice Tim from the City of Greater Dandenong dropped by this morning to pick up plants during a La Niña shower. The Cranberry Hibiscus (see video after photo), Sweet Potato, Brazilian Spinach, Konjac, Tamarillo and Cassava are going to be planted in the (mostly) edible Tropical Bed Steve’s team created several years ago just outside the Dandenong Market. The garden bed is designed to help reflect Dandenong’s ethnic diversity- the highest in Victoria - and the diversity of produce in the market itself. The City of Greater Dandenong’s gardeners form one of the most dedicated horticulture teams in Melbourne creating and maintaining gardens from exotic meadows and edible plantings to indigenous grasslands and revegetation #cityofgreaterdandenong #dandenong #dandenongmarket #municipalhorticulture #publicplanting #ediblegardening #tropicalplanting #brazilianspinach #cassava #amorphophalluskonjac #sweetpotatoplant #tamarillo #novelcrops #panc #outreach #backoftheute #apprenticelife #laniña #lamesummer #notcomplaining

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Fruits from pot grown Port Jackson Figs. I’ve included the trunks because you can see that the seed-grown one has buttress roots forming while the specimen grown from a cutting has a straight trunk. Now I’m sure I learnt this trick at Burnley a long time ago, possibly from @mayhorticulture. As I remember it the idea is that as because Port Jackson Figs are an extremely robust tree with some potential as a street tree having specimens without buttress roots would make them easier to manage. If this is all some strange mixed up educational memory then someone please let me know! Meanwhile I can tell you with certainty that the original provenance of these specimens is the eastern Warrumbungle Ranges in NSW at the western edge of their natural distribution and nowhere near Port Jackson (Sydney). Here they grow on cliffs, rocky outcrops or boulders, anywhere safe from fire and frost. As for the fruits when they’re ripe they’re really tasty with a slightest gritty aftertaste I’ll admit #bushfoods #bushfoodsofaustralia #wildfoods #australiannativefruit #australiannativetrees #australianrainforestplants #ficusrubiginosa #portjacksonfig #urbantrees #treesinpots #treepropagation #ihopethatsright #correctmeifimwrong

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