This week on The Horti-Culturalists we were VERY lucky to visit three magical gardens designed by Edna Walling in the early 1920's as part of her Bickleigh Vale village development. It really is a unique environment in Australia and testament to Edna Walling's extraordinary vision and skill and we were fortunate to have three owners allow us free range of their magical gardens so we could make this video for you!
And if you are in Melbourne, Victoria, this weekend of the 12th & 14th Oct you will be able to visit EIGHT of these magnificent gardens as they will all be open as part of the Open Gardens Victoria. You can find out more and make a booking here: https://opengardensvictoria.org.au/
And if you'd like to know more about Bickleigh Vale village you can here: https://www.bickleighvale.com.au/
Many thanks to the home owners who so generously allowed us to visit and film their homes and gardens for this video...and for giving us the most wonderful lunch!
We visit three gardens in this video, all of which will be open this coming weekend: Downderry, Devon Cottage and Lynton Lee.
And if you're interested in joining the Royal Horticultural Society of Victoria you can here: http://rhsv.org.au/
The plants we mention in this video are:
Gaudium laevigatum - Coastal Tea Tree
Fagus sylvatica purpurea - Copper Beech
Amelanchier canadensis
Amelanchier lamarckii
Parrotia persica
Spiraea cantonensis 'Flore Pleno'
Chiranthodendron pentadactylon
Daucus decipiens
Clethra
Babiana angustifolia
Oxalis purpurea
Ixia maculata
Sparaxis
Iris confusa
Rubus 'Benenden'
Jasminum mesnyi