A heritage Utopia for lovers of colonial Victoriana, including Bunya Pine silhouettes, Italianate architecture, heavy interiors, Lemon-scented Gums and the contemporary addition of delicious food prepared by the Karen community, ingredients sourced from the kitchen garden #werribeemansion #araucariabidwillii #corymbiacitriodora #heritagegardens #playingforsheepstations #goldrushmoney #victorianinterior #urbanagriculture #communitygarden #karenfood #parksvictoria #italianatearchitecture #treesilhouette #nineteenthcentury #picturesque #gardenesque

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It’s a Rescue Banana from my garden! It’s as happy as all those Greyhounds walking the suburbs now, only in this case walking becomes being watered again! Off to a new home and successfully dug up by Maddy and Paul #rescuingplants #bananaonthego #bananaplant #melbournebananas #savingplants #newhome #mattock #itsarescue

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Goodbye garden! The compost bins are decanted and have been lying around like beheaded Daleks for a few days, off to their new home at the Northcote Pool tomorrow. It’s been scary watching couch regrow this summer from its tiny strands that I’ve oppressed like humanoid kryptonite to C4 grasses for so many years...my Abyssinian Banana is 10 years old including its early life in.a pot and still shows no sign of flowering. I’m watering it to the bitter end before I abandon it to its fate next week in my chopper out of here (Ford Falcon Station Wagon). Over and out.#goodbyegarden #abandonedgarden #compostbins #daleks #obscurereference #leavingyoubehind #thefallof #outofhere #enseteventricosum

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Last days of Chez Moi...improvised seating devices are the order of the day. Moving house proves again the value of the Aussie milk crate. Note for legal purposes: actual milk crate may not be shown #movinghouse #chezmoi #nottostandard #improvisedseating #milkcrate #milkcratecreations #rentallife #nomoregarden #getoutclause #untouchable

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My first ever snake bean, growing well in a polytunnel on a 44 Degree day - overhead irrigation tunnels are surprisingly ok places to be when the world has turned into an oven #toohottotype #toohottohashtag #imcooked #powerisout #boilingday #climatecatastrophe #losingit #snakebean #ohthehumanity

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It was all hands on deck yesterday preparing raised beds for two species of indigenous sweet potatoes in the Burnley Field Station. Jess Gardner’s research project will test water and nutrient regimes and we’ll get to see how they grow at Melbourne’s latitude. Big thanks to Nick Osborne for coming back as a volunteer to plough and cultivate the growing area (you can see him in the background on the red tractor)! #digging #shovelling #workingupasweat #hatweather #bendyourknees #goodposture #raisedbeds #dustydirt #discplough #fieldtrials #novelcrops

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What do a Lotus flower and a Blue-tongued Lizard have in common? Nothing, except I saw both today #nelumbonucifera #whitelotus #bluetongueskink #australianreptiles #australianlizards #urbanwildlife #urbanecology #novelecosystem #putmedownplease

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So the Rainbow Lorikeets (top left) took off from the Sunflower when they saw me peering through the window; so the more diminutive Scaly Breasted Lorikeets (top right) took their chances and moved straight in. But it was all too much when I appeared outside and off they went as well (bottom right) #rainbowlorikeets #scalybreastedlorikeet #birdslovesunflowers #sunflower #birdstakingoff #birdhide #australianparrots #peckingorder

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So now the great Zucchini Glut begins at the Northcote Pool - expect lots of zucchini frittata at the pool’s Healthy Choices café #summerveggiegarden #northcotepool #zucchiniharvest #zucchiniglut #kitchengarden

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Part of my contribution to Christmas Day lunch - a Crayfish and a Babaco. The Babaco I grew myself, the Crayfish I caught with my bare hands at the Preston Market once I forked out $130 😱. Worth it though... #seafoodforchristmas #southernrocklobster #crayfish #babaco #bringfruit #homegrown #prestonmarket

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Cherry plums rescued from marauding Lorikeets, Cockatoos and Fruit Bats. In bird and bat world the ‘low hanging fruit’ are the ‘high hanging fruit’ so these were picked at the comfort zone bipedal primate level up to about 1.5 metres off the ground. What’s so fascinating is that the Lorikeets eat only the flesh of the plums and let the seed drop while the White Cockatoos eat chew through the fruit to get to the seed. Then the Fruit Bats arrive at dusk and clock on for night shift - everyone’s a winner! #cherryplums #plums #handpickedfruit #wildfruittrees #beatthebirdstothem #backyardfruit #summerfruit #birdsandbats #novelecosystem #urbanwildlife

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We loaded the truck, we drove to Dandenong Market, we planted out interesting plants with the Horticulture team from the City of Greater Dandenong and then we drove home via Roth Hetherington Reserve to drop off some Themeda Oat Grass (‘the other Themeda’). It’s always a pleasure to work with the gardeners at Dandenong led by the formidable Steve Nelson. These guys are a precious example of passionate and creative municipal maintenance gardeners working on 800 hectares of open space across Dandenong and Springvale. “Urban Green Space” gets a lot of attention in the academic literature for its real and potential ability to ameliorate a range of urban induced problems. None of this will happen I don’t think without investment in high quality and dedicated gardeners... @cityofgreaterdandenong should be very proud of theirs! Plants that went in today included Mountain Paw Paw, Babaco, Abyssinian Banana, Taro, Sweet Potato and more #dandenongmarket #municipalgardens #plantingout #highviz #highvizgang #novelcrops #panc #ensete #babaco #plantsofecuador #soapboxmoment #editorializing #urbangreenspace #onthetools

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