The legacy behind a trackside garden in Melbourne's north | Garden Inspiration | Gardening Australia
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- čas přidán 3. 11. 2023
- Jane is in Northcote in Melbourne’s north to meet a group of people who are honouring a friend’s memory by turning a neglected patch of ground beside a railway into a thriving garden. Subscribe 🔔 ab.co/GA-subscribe
There is a large apple tree in the centre surrounded by plants that were chosen to survive without being watered. Volunteers meet once a month for maintenance.
Many plants were donated, such as a Wigandia.
A scented geranium by a path gives off a lovely smell when people brush past it.
The garden was originally run by a gardening group but became a bit run-down. Much of the work to create the present perennial dry garden was done by late local resident Louise Tinney. To water new plants in, water was brought in by hand in old milk bottles, carted in old shopping trolleys.
Stick fences mark new plants to give them some protection.
Louise was also a great people wrangler, and roped in passers by to help water plants or get involved in planting.
Louise passed away in 2021 and the garden is now being tended by a group of committed locals and family members who are making sure her legacy lives on.
Louise’s daughter Miranda brings her own infant daughter to the garden. Louise’s younger sister Fiona is also part of the volunteer team.
While the garden started with a lot of exotic perennials, the group is now incorporating a lot of indigenous and other native plants.
In 2019 the garden became part of the Stationeers program, run by Keep Australian Beautiful Vic to encourage locals to get involved in beautifying VicTrack-owned land around train stations. There are now 60 station precincts being cared for by volunteers.
A major maintenance task is pruning - volunteer Jane Miller calls it wallaby pruning as it mimics the small but regular nibbling of outer leaves that a wallaby would do.
But the volunteers say they always make time for cake, too!
Featured plants:
Apple (Malus cv.)
Wigandia (Wigandia sp.)
Nasturtium (Tropaeolum majus ‘Milkmaid’)
Jerusalem safe (Phlomis fruticosa cv.)
Scented geranium (Pelargonium cv.)
Pine banksia (Banksia tricuspis)
Kangaroo grass (Themeda triandra)
Pigface (Carpobrotus cv.)
Creeping wire vine (Muehlenbeckia axillaris)
Filmed on Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung Country in Northcote, Vic
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This should absolutely be done worldwide.
❤What a lovely story of Louises legacy
There should be more of it its good for the mind and soul ❤
This is great 👍🪱🌺🌳
How wonderful.
Wish there was a lot more of these types of gardens happening …Beautiful garden ,a credit to Louise and all those lovely gardeners.❤️❤️❤️🌻🌻🌻
Just so sweet, such a lovely idea and a wonderful legacy ❤️
Fabulous, lovely seeing gardening bringing people together.
Gardening is an art and not everyone is gifted with it but everyone has the potential to learn it. I like your style and big thumb 👍142
A lot of people would do the same, but city council says one can not do anything on a council ground and they would remove any plants. So we need really the explanation as to how , where one can add vegetation in their surrounding. They even destroy something that totally has no reason to be destroyed, like daisies in the corner of two fences.
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Can someone please tell me what the plant is with the emerald green spikes?
The railway should encourage everyone to plant out alongside track...instead of dumping rust, track items, and large mounds of railway track gravel just dumped in mounds, also occasionally the railways even pull out plantings. We should not have to ask it should be mandatory, esp in view of all the railway works being done ..