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
26 Comments
Hello! my friend.
Love oxalis. Have one I put on my mother's gave at her funeral but they gave me the pot back and it still grows in the same pot years later. I love them and they grow in the desert heat here. Have a 30 year old wisteria vine on the north side and it's is a trooper shouldering this terrible climate change but I water it every day. Amazing hundred year old vines in bloom. Awesome topic for a video!
A delightful village! ❤
Thank you for showing us around 😊
Oh these properties are just delightful!! I had not heard of them before. I feel they must be quite magical to see.
Many thanks for your tour.
De inheemse flora van Australië is heel anders dan wat ik gewend ben in noordwest Europa.
Zeer mooi!
Ik heb een grote roodkleurige beuk.
Echter, niet mijn favoriete boom.
There surely is a YouTube channel in heaven—and it’s called “The Horti-Culturalists.”
Very interesting. Planning peoples need to take a look, I can see a lot of positive benefits from estates like this.
Regarding the natural 'grafting' on the Parrotia persica, I discovered there's a similar phenomenon that occurs between two different trees. Wikipedia says "Inosculation is a natural phenomenon in which trunks, branches or roots of two trees grow together in a manner biologically similar to the artificial process of grafting."
Thank you so much for show casing our village so well….fabulous video…
Thank you for show casing our village so beautifully..a fabulous video.
What a delightful journey! Thank you for sharing!
Such a lovely places, thanks for sharing
This is a really interesting video. Thanks. My mum had a great interest in Edna Walling back in the eighties, especially her stonework, and I've collected a couple of books about her gardens myself. ♥🦘🦘🦘🦘🦘
It's always nice to be reminded that the work I'm doing today will only truly be appreciated long after I'm gone. I've spent the last year turning the front entrance of the property into an avenue of proteacea leading past a wide narciussus bed onto a Mediterranean garden and then through to a traditional European orchard…. and in 50 years or so, It will be spectacular. Realistically, I've got way less than 20 years of 'spectacular' left in me…… but hopefully the next generation will be provided with the bones of a lovely garden to work with.
Thanks team, I’ve subscribed. Look forward to future broadcasts.
Harry
Sorry if I am being a pest but I need some advice on how to germinate Wollemi pine seeds. Thank you in advance. Gilbert.
When you say copper beech I'm assuming you are referring to fagus sylvatica.., European beech….??? Am I correct?? Like Australia sylvatica won't grow here in the southeast US,,,, so I'm experimenting with cultivars that are grafted onto our native fagus grandiflora…grandiflora grows here like a weed so that is why I am trying this..the gurus say it won't work but 3 years in now the tree is fine…time will tell I suppose…also,,,have you thought about 'kew's weeping' as a parottia to try that will stay small ?? I have one that is grafted and it suckers madly so I rooted 2 to try on its own roots to try keeping the suckering at bay…hope it works….m
Hi. The last few videos are streaming at 720p max. I am missing the ultra HD quality especially when looking at gardens. Can you please bring it back.
What a treat ! Wonderful to learn about Edna & see her hard work, has carried on
Hello my dear friend how are you ❤❤❤ beautiful sharing from USA 🇺🇸 stay connected dear
I thought I was blown away by the babiana growing in amongst the terrace stones, but when I saw those ixia it was gale force. I have never seen them so big and floriferous and I live in their land of South Africa.
Hi Stephen & Matt well I take my Hat Off to Edna Walling what a Brilliant garden mind she had Amazing woman
Thanks for sharing guys!
Happy Gardening 🌸🐝🦟
Wonderful, what a privilege to live and caretake in this amazing landscape , most beautiful gardens and trees I think I’ve seen, I use to love going to Mount Wilson in NSW but this is truly magnificent, thank you gentlemen
not sure may have seen cooper beech in Turramurra syd.
If I ever visit Australia, it will need to be in October. These gardens are beautiful! Thanks so much.