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00:15Hey, buddy.
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00:19Hello and welcome to a very special episode of Gardening Australia.
00:34We love celebrating gardening greatness on the show
00:38and today we're doing it for one of our own.
00:42There's a big announcement, a surprise party and a bit of cake.
00:47But before I catch up with all of them, I've got a new garden to visit.
01:01The south-eastern corner of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
01:05is on Bunurong Country
01:07and it's the home of the newly completed Drylands Garden.
01:11Here's a familiar face.
01:13We've toned up.
01:14We've toned up in the same colours.
01:16Lovely to see.
01:17I'm catching up with an old mate of mine
01:20because this just so happens to be one of her favourite spots in Melbourne.
01:29Jane, you know these gardens here better than anyone else I know
01:33and they're pretty much part of your backyard.
01:37What used to be here in this section of the gardens?
01:40Well, over the past years I've sat here many, many times in the seats
01:44and just read a book or just listened to the birds
01:47and it was literally just lawn or grass with some of these beautiful trees like the blue gun there.
01:52I thought this is a bit of a wasted space but it needed just a little bit more oomph in it.
01:57One day I happened to see Andrew Laidlaw who's the landscape architect here at the Botanic Gardens
02:03and I said to him, hey, what about doing something a bit more exciting?
02:07So he came up with a plan for a drylands project.
02:12Every plant here has been carefully chosen from regions with climates like Melbourne's hotter, drier future.
02:20Not only as part of the Botanic Gardens climate succession plan but also to inspire the gardeners of tomorrow.
02:27It's an experimental area but Andrew then thought we could make it an education area
02:33and that really came to my heart because I used to be a teacher.
02:36So a group of people got together, gave some money including me and we built this,
02:41all the gardens built it and there's such enthusiasm about it.
02:46I think the thing that has created the most enthusiasm is this wildflower meadow.
02:50Yeah.
02:51Just a sea of colour.
02:52Yeah.
02:53It's beautiful.
02:54Yeah.
02:55And then in amongst there's little purple flowers and there's little swainsonias and all sorts of little things,
03:02little yellow everlastings.
03:04And it just gets people to come in because of that wow factor.
03:09The new garden covers 2,500 square metres with a gentle winding path that invites you in.
03:16The background to this whole garden is lots of mature trees and you know,
03:20there's some really good examples.
03:21So that one there is just lovely.
03:23Yeah, the Angopera.
03:24Yeah.
03:25That's one of your favourites.
03:26It's interesting to see it in Melbourne because not being on a windswept ridge,
03:30it hasn't got all the bends and twists.
03:32It's quite straight.
03:33But look at the trunk.
03:34I love the colour of it.
03:35Yeah.
03:36And then you've got some really fine fig trees.
03:37There were big buttress roots.
03:39And then under that you've got some lower growing things like this Fervalium.
03:42Yeah.
03:43That's one of my favourites.
03:44Fervalium squamulosum.
03:45That sounds like a disease, doesn't it?
03:49Is it curable?
03:50It is curable if you grow it because it's such a pretty thing.
03:53And then you've got all the lovely stuff at the bottom.
03:55What's this ground cover here that looks almost like a grass?
03:59It does.
04:00Well, it's actually, you can see, it's an Eremophila.
04:02Everyone knows the emu bushes.
04:04This is a real prostrate plant.
04:06It's even got dear little seed pods there.
04:08Aren't they gorgeous?
04:09Yeah.
04:10Yeah, they look like little eggs.
04:11It's amazing, isn't it?
04:12It's very exciting because some of these things people don't know about.
04:15You know, I didn't know that this existed.
04:17That's terrific.
04:18Yeah.
04:19The drylands garden holds some very rare species.
04:24Some are even critically endangered.
04:27Seeds, specimens and expertise have been gathered from across Australia,
04:32entrusted by botanic gardens, native nurseries, seed banks and universities.
04:38Because many are growing out of their climate range,
04:41the garden is a living laboratory, collecting knowledge to help guide the future.
04:49Signage is such a big part of storytelling and in a setting like this,
04:53you've then got these burnt trunks.
04:56It's very dramatic, aren't they?
04:58Yeah, yeah, and it catches your eye.
04:59It draws you up here.
05:00Yeah.
05:01Well, that's sort of giving a nod to how important bushfires are
05:04in the whole scheme of growing native plants
05:07because our native plant landscape is so dependent on bushfires
05:11and this is what these black trunks are sort of representing.
05:14Yeah.
05:15And there's some beautiful plants.
05:16What's that massive yellow over there, Jane?
05:18Is it a pea?
05:19It is.
05:20Yeah.
05:21It's a senna.
05:22They used to call it cassia but it's a lovely plant,
05:24drought tolerant once it gets established.
05:26Yeah.
05:27But it's a beauty, isn't it?
05:28See that lovely soft yellow down there?
05:30That's a really nice plant.
05:31It's a catkin grevillea.
05:33Yeah, and I can see that there through all of the different grasses
05:37and they just create such a softness to draw your eye
05:41throughout the landscape.
05:42It's very natural, isn't it?
05:43Yeah.
05:44Yeah.
05:45It's also special to see the grey billybuttons growing here
05:49as they're critically endangered.
05:51They're found in Victoria's shrinking grasslands.
05:55There's another sitting circle surrounded by cycads and palms
05:59and you can't miss this beautiful, tall, shining burrowing
06:04which comes from sclerophyll forests on the east coast
06:07around the Queensland-New South Wales border.
06:10It's slow growing but it can eventually reach seven metres tall.
06:14They produce huge cones up to 40 kilos
06:18which are pollinated by native weevils.
06:21There's some really special plants like that cabbage tree palm there.
06:25Isn't that spectacular?
06:27Yeah.
06:28They run right up the coast and I know them in Sydney
06:30and they're like a marker for the literal rainforest.
06:33Where you are, that's right.
06:35And then I do like the dorianthes.
06:37I think they're pretty good.
06:38It's like the Olympic torch.
06:39Yeah, it is.
06:40That's right.
06:41This is just an area that's going to develop
06:43and really do very, very nicely.
06:46The Kinetia Cochinea is a hardy spreading ground cover from WA
06:51with a profusion of fuchsia and red flowers.
06:55Who said those colours don't go together?
06:58The words of Wiradjuri poet Dr Janine Lane
07:02can be found around the garden in her art installation Seeds of Hope.
07:08There's also QR codes that you can scan to listen to soundscapes
07:14and interviews to dive deeper and learn more about the garden
07:19as well as hear some of the poetry aloud.
07:22Here we go.
07:23That's for you.
07:24Yeah.
07:25Okay, put it on.
07:26Yiridhu Marang.
07:28Yiridhu Janine.
07:30Wiradjuri Yina.
07:32Marambi Jidi.
07:34We each have seeds of hope and seeds of fear inside us.
07:40We choose the ones we will nurture and grow.
07:45That's nice, isn't it?
07:46That's really nice.
07:47Yeah, that's good.
07:48It really is.
07:49Very good.
07:50Yeah.
07:51This garden shows that protecting threatened plants
07:53is really about doing what you can,
07:55and so many people have contributed,
07:57whether it's with their time, their knowledge,
08:00creativity or philanthropy.
08:03My hope is that the garden inspires more of those connections in visitors,
08:08that everyone can see the role they can play in caring for plants
08:13and for the planet that sustains us all.
08:19So I noticed this plaque here, Jane.
08:22This space means a lot to you, doesn't it?
08:24It does, because it's education,
08:26and the gardeners of the future will sit here
08:28and learn all about Australian native plants.
08:31And that's why this plaque would nurture nature
08:34and nature will nurture you.
08:35Now, that's simple, but it's really true, isn't it?
08:39If we all lived by that, the whole world would be okay.
08:43Feels like the perfect spot for you to let us in
08:48on a bit of news that you've decided.
08:51I have, Costa, and it's time.
08:53I'm retiring, although I don't like that word,
08:56I am retiring from Gardening Australia,
08:59having done it for so many years,
09:01and it makes me feel really, really proud and humble, really.
09:05And it's been a pleasure for me for so many years
09:08to present what I do on the program.
09:10But it's time, and I will move on and do other things
09:13within the horticultural world and still see you
09:16and all the lovely faces on the telly.
09:19It'll be just lovely.
09:20But it's time's right.
09:24Look, I know you're a no-fuss sort of person,
09:28and the thing I want everyone at home to realise
09:33is that you've been making gardening television for 38 years,
09:40and you're the only remaining presenter in the team
09:47that's been there since the first episode.
09:51Yeah.
09:52It really feels like the end of an era.
09:56It could be.
09:58The palozoic era is finishing.
10:01No, but it's been so delightful,
10:06but I just know that it's right.
10:08I look around what's happening in gardening at the moment,
10:11and there's such a lot of good things happening,
10:13you know, with young people coming up
10:15and students learning all about horticulture
10:17and becoming gardeners themselves,
10:19and that's the really important thing.
10:21And if I can end with one last little thing,
10:24keep digging, keep putting plants in the ground,
10:27it doesn't matter, just keep doing it,
10:29and you'll get so much satisfaction
10:32because it is a lovely, lovely vocation for me for so long,
10:36but also for anyone just as amateur gardeners
10:39to enjoy their garden.
10:41Well, I just want to let you know that this episode
10:48is going to be an episode dedicated to you.
10:51Ooh.
10:52And to start the episode, we thought,
10:55what better place to kick it off
10:57than with your My Garden Path story.
11:01Is there anything about that story
11:04that comes to mind that was special?
11:08I think the special thing was that gardening's lots of memories, isn't it?
11:13Yeah.
11:14And I always tell people,
11:15you make memories by what you plant in your garden,
11:18and you can pass them on to whoever's going to be looking at your garden down the track.
11:22And I think my mum and dad, of course, were so influential,
11:25dad being the horticulturalist, the grower of citrus,
11:28mum being the very fine gardener she was,
11:30and just being able to show that sort of element,
11:33and also that when I started in the nursery all those years ago,
11:3745 years ago, you know, pricking out little plants,
11:41and I had to cajole the person that I was working for
11:45because most people didn't have women gardeners in their nurseries.
11:49So it was a bit of a trendsetter.
11:51Yeah.
11:52You certainly have been, Jane.
11:54You've set a wonderful benchmark.
11:56Thanks, Scott.
11:57For generations.
12:00And we're going to miss you.
12:03Oh, I'm going to miss everyone too.
12:05But I'll still be watching.
12:06My eagle eye will be watching your hair and your beard and your costumes.
12:11I'll still be watching.
12:12Don't you worry.
12:13But it's been a joy for me because the team of Gardening Australia,
12:17people out there only watch us,
12:19but they don't realise that there's such a lot that goes behind.
12:22The sound people, the cameramen, the producers,
12:26you know, all the horticulturalists that are behind it.
12:29And it's such a team effort.
12:30It's fantastic.
12:31So, you know, hats off to them too.
12:33I'll miss them.
12:34Can you just tell me your name and who you are?
12:43I'm Jane Edmondson and I've been on Gardening Australia
12:46right from the very beginning.
12:51Plenty of people eat takeaway food these days
12:53and certainly we all drink milk out of these cartons.
12:56I was a very shy person when I was young.
12:58Very, very shy.
12:59Still go very red if given an opportunity.
13:02I'd never been in front of a camera before
13:04and it was quite terrifying.
13:06The hydrangea, quite a common plant in many of the old-fashioned gardens.
13:09Until suddenly you think,
13:11I can do this, heaven spare us.
13:13It's only talking to an inanimate object,
13:16you know, a camera,
13:18and you've got all those nice people out there
13:19who are wanting to hear what you say.
13:21And should be grown more in those dappled, shady positions.
13:24Rather exciting colours.
13:26I don't know where that wink came from.
13:27I think it was just a nervous habit.
13:29You know, ah, I've said what I want to say
13:31and I'll just give it a wink,
13:33just to kind of double emphasise the fact.
13:35Once a stranger looked over the fence and said to me,
13:39oh, you're that lady on the television.
13:41I thought you would have had a very neat, structured kind of garden
13:45with English box.
13:46and I said, oh, no, phooey to that.
13:47I just like things to move, a little bit of life.
13:48It's important to me.
13:49Oh, that looks better.
13:50Hey.
13:51I was born in Mildura, up in the Sunraysia area,
13:55and we lived there until I was about five.
13:57My dad and mum then moved us down to Melbourne,
13:59and I was born in Mildura, up in the Sunraysia area,
14:01and we lived there until I was about five.
14:03My dad and mum then moved us down to Melbourne,
14:05where we grew up in the suburbs, North Caulfield,
14:06and I went to the North Caulfield Central School,
14:08and we were able to go to Melbourne,
14:10and we were able to go to Melbourne,
14:11and we were able to go to Melbourne,
14:12and we were able to go to Melbourne.
14:13And we were able to go to Melbourne,
14:14and I was able to go to Melbourne and Melbourne.
14:15Oh, no, phooey to that.
14:16I just like things to move, a little bit of life.
14:17It's important to me.
14:18Mildura, up in the Sunraysia area,
14:20and we lived there until I was about five.
14:23My dad and mum then moved us down to Melbourne,
14:26where we grew up in the suburbs, North Caulfield,
14:30and I went to the North Caulfield Central School,
14:33and my mum had the most beautiful garden.
14:37Now, this is something that my mum did.
14:39She was really, really a creative person,
14:41not only in the garden,
14:43but she just loved doing embroidery.
14:45That's Danish embroidery.
14:46All those beautiful little flowers, stitch by stitch.
14:50Well, I always think that when you're in your teenagers,
14:53oh, gardening, who wants to do gardening?
14:55So I went teaching to a place called Dimboola.
14:57It was a little country town,
14:59and there the very smart, astute headmaster said,
15:02Jane, you're an outdoor-looking girl,
15:04and I was and still am,
15:06and he said, you do this extra little bit,
15:08apart from all the other subjects I was teaching,
15:11you go and look after the kids in the garden.
15:13And that just showed me
15:15that I really wanted to be a gardener.
15:17I got a job at the State School's nursery.
15:19My friends thought I was mad
15:21because I'd gone from a teaching salary,
15:24which wasn't a lot in those days,
15:26but it was less working in a nursery.
15:28They thought I was jolly bonkers.
15:30And I did that for years and years,
15:32just pricking out plants, you know,
15:34standing at a bench, doing very...
15:36I call...
15:37It's sort of mundane, but that's how I learnt.
15:39I learnt all the botanical names.
15:41I learnt how they grew.
15:42Have a look at this.
15:44This is a sign that I took
15:46when I left the State School's nursery.
15:48It tells you the different lessons
15:50that the teachers from all around Victoria
15:52would come to the State School's nursery,
15:54learn about nature studies and gardening,
15:56and then go back to their schools and teach it.
15:58I got it because I was always interested in the history,
16:02and this is very fascinating on the back.
16:05See those gentlemen with their suits and their ties
16:08and their wing collars?
16:10They're all doing gardening jobs.
16:12Not a woman amongst them.
16:13It's incredible.
16:14And that just showed me
16:16that when I wanted to be a gardener in a nursery in the 1970s,
16:20I had to bang on so many doors
16:22and nursery men would all say,
16:24no, we never accept women.
16:26And it took ages for me to find a decent nursery person
16:29who would give me a go.
16:31And now it's completely the opposite.
16:33In most nurseries, you'd find the predominance of women.
16:36So I think I was a little bit of a trailblazer.
16:46After many years, I had the opportunity to join in
16:49with some friends of mine in owning a little nursery,
16:52a little tiny suburban nursery in Preston,
16:55and it was a lovely experience.
16:57And we just had a lovely time.
16:59And that's where I really got to know
17:01how people in the suburban areas,
17:03how they like to garden.
17:05And that's where you really learned,
17:07not the highfalutin side of gardening,
17:09but the real basic gardening.
17:11You know, what people want in their backyards
17:13and their front gardens.
17:14I find people really fascinating.
17:20What was the first of the creations that you did?
17:22The first one was the eagle.
17:24Yes.
17:25Then after that, the big elephant.
17:27Yes.
17:28Then the two babies.
17:29Oh, the two babies following the mother elephant.
17:31Yeah, two babies.
17:32This is a single mother.
17:33A single mother.
17:34Two babies.
17:35Every time I go to someone's garden
17:39or I do a Garden Australia segment,
17:41it's always been a joy.
17:43Your broccoli looks good, Geoff.
17:45The people who love their gardens,
17:47you can see that they just love it.
17:49And in their hearts, they really want to share with you.
17:51They might be a bit nervous about being on the TV,
17:53but they just want to share and show how they've done their story.
18:02This is Jane at Darren's Big Backyard.
18:06I love doing radio.
18:08I was really born to be a talker on the radio.
18:101128, Jenny, good morning.
18:13I loved trying to influence people,
18:16to inspire them and to answer their gardening questions,
18:19which I did for 28 years.
18:21Have the leaves got...
18:22Do they look like they've been sucked dry?
18:24Or not?
18:25No?
18:26OK.
18:27All right.
18:28After 28 years, I thought,
18:29if I have to hear one other lemon tree question,
18:31I'm going to be...
18:32I'll go insane.
18:33So, I thought...
18:34And also, there's lots of things that I want to do.
18:36I still love the horticultural world.
18:38I still love the filming for TV.
18:40But it's just that thing of getting up every weekend,
18:43sat down Sunday morning, it's nice to have a break,
18:46and I can go and do lots of other things.
18:48That is a big...
18:49I want you to name every flower in that bunch.
18:52Oh, don't start me walking.
18:53In the last show, it was lovely to talk to everyone
18:55because they were very complimentary.
18:57It was the perfect way to go,
18:58especially as the very last question of my radio career was,
19:03what's wrong with my lemon tree?
19:08Oh, dear.
19:10And I notice the beauty here.
19:11The good round like that...
19:12Yep.
19:13Boom.
19:14Done.
19:15Thank you. I'll take that home.
19:16Put it in the bath.
19:17If young Jane,
19:19Dimboola,
19:20was to see Jane now,
19:22would she be surprised at what she's done?
19:24I think the young Jane from all those years ago,
19:27when she would flush red because of embarrassment
19:30and nervousness like anything,
19:32she would be totally amazed.
19:34Ooh, this does remind me of wrapping up a plum pudding.
19:37I pinch myself nearly every day
19:40and think, what a lucky person.
19:42Fortunate in a way, but you work towards what you get.
19:46But I have been fortunate.
19:47I've got a problem with this broccoli,
19:49if you could help me with it.
19:50Oh, let's have a look.
19:51What's not to like about this lady?
19:59She is just really...
20:01What you see is what you get.
20:03Jane is the most amazing, passionate gardener
20:06and an incredible communicator of all things gardening.
20:10Jane doesn't suffer falls
20:12and I think a lot of people really like that.
20:15There's no nonsense.
20:16It's just good information.
20:17She gets on with it
20:18and I think that goes down really well.
20:20She's really relatable.
20:22So anyone that's watching her would think,
20:25I can have a go at that.
20:27She can kick a football
20:28like pretty much no one I've ever met personally.
20:30Wishing you all the best
20:32on the new adventures I know you will have.
20:35Happy gardening.
20:36Jane, thank you for all the years of knowledge sharing,
20:40of your kindness to all of us,
20:43your kindness to me in the early days
20:45of me learning the ropes at Gardening Australia,
20:48for all of your encouragement
20:50and best of luck in this next chapter of what you do.
21:00You know, Costa, a lot of the stories that we do
21:03really stick with you, don't they?
21:05They resonate.
21:06And it's usually, I'm thinking about it,
21:09it's usually how gardening is a vehicle
21:11that brings people together
21:13and they work as a community.
21:15And that's really lovely.
21:17Yeah, it's an incredible privilege to do what we do.
21:20We turn up, people welcome us into their world
21:25with such generosity.
21:27And this community that we visited together
21:31is one that has stuck with me ever since.
21:37This amazing spread has been created
21:40by a group of talented asylum seekers from Sri Lanka.
21:44And what began as a couple of one-off events
21:47to share their unique culture
21:49with the wider Melbourne community,
21:51has quickly grown into sell-out feasts
21:54held in a restaurant three nights a week.
21:57Many of the fresh ingredients that they use
22:00have been sourced from Joe's Market Garden in Coburg,
22:04Melbourne's oldest and last surviving inner-city market garden.
22:09Jane and I caught up with Nero,
22:12one of the Tamil cooks and main organisers.
22:15What are some of the things that you're picking for tonight's feast?
22:20Yeah, tonight we're cooking silverbeet curry,
22:25so normally we're getting silverbeet from this farm.
22:29So today I come to pick up some silverbeet with you,
22:33so it's a good pleasure today.
22:35Is there any special preparation?
22:38No, that's easy.
22:40We can cook very quickly
22:42and we don't want too much...
22:47..too long not want to cook.
22:49So very quick cook and tasty also.
22:52It's nice because, I mean,
22:53people have a limited use for silverbeet.
22:56Yeah.
22:57And now you're opening up a new recipe for people to use it in.
23:00Yeah, that's what they're saying.
23:01We never cook silverbeet curry.
23:03This is the first time we're tasting silverbeet curry,
23:07good-taste curry, yeah, they're saying.
23:09This looks like a really healthy bunch of greens.
23:12What do you do with it for the feast?
23:15Yeah, we are...
23:17..we fill up some greens in our plate.
23:20So normally we have three curries
23:22and some greens on the plate
23:24make it a little bit beautiful and more healthier.
23:27So personally I don't like salad,
23:30but I am getting used to and like now greens.
23:33So these salad items are now...
23:38..this we're getting from here, this farm.
23:42Joe's Market Garden is managed by Ceres,
23:45the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Studies.
23:50The head gardener is Emily Connors.
23:52So the Tamil Feast crew, they actually contact me regularly.
23:57I'll ask them, what would you like me to grow?
24:00And they'll say, coriander please, Em.
24:03Or, you know, I'll tell them what I've got coming up.
24:07They'll actually tweak their menu
24:09to be as seasonal as possible.
24:12The peace and quiet of this garden
24:15is very different to where Nero came from in Sri Lanka.
24:19When I was very young age, I saw a very deadly war.
24:26So I saw most of the week something happened.
24:30Something happened mean someone died, someone missing,
24:33someone shooting the street in front of our house,
24:36a lot of people died.
24:38So tell us about the journey that you went through
24:42once you left home.
24:43I heard about, you know, that time,
24:45a lot of boats come to Australia.
24:48So I got a chance to get on, to come by boat.
24:51So that's a, I get on, I come by boat.
24:56So it's a, on by boat nearly three weeks journey,
25:01by boat through the Indian Ocean.
25:04So that's a very dangerous journey.
25:06I don't have a space to trace our, like,
25:09we can't turn other side also.
25:11That's a people are, uh, next to a very pile.
25:15And also very rough sea.
25:17So every second, uh, throw us in the air.
25:21We can feel straight how hard the wave,
25:24straight we can feel.
25:26And left home nearly ten years, more than ten years.
25:30My goodness.
25:31Wow.
25:32Uh, more than six years in detention.
25:35It's been a long journey
25:40to get all the way from his home country
25:43to where he's now cooking regular Tamil feasts
25:46in a nearby restaurant.
25:48And the success of these events
25:50has increased in leaps and bounds.
25:52One night a week, then two nights a week.
25:55So then after we start three nights a week.
25:57Before the maximum number 40 people.
26:00Then it's now 60 to 80 people.
26:03So that's a double bonus for us.
26:05Yeah.
26:06We tell our story and we giving our, our feast
26:09and we sharing everything.
26:11So that's a very big, uh, happy moment for us.
26:14Yeah.
26:15Wonderful.
26:16Just makes me feel good.
26:17I feel like I have to give everyone a hug.
26:19I want to give him a hug.
26:20I want to give him a hug.
26:21Oh!
26:22So, so nice.
26:24Oh, lovely man.
26:26Oh!
26:27Hey, Costa.
26:28It is.
26:29Yeah.
26:30It's a lovely story.
26:31It is.
26:33Brilliant.
26:35This is amazing.
26:36The crop you've been picking to go for this feast.
26:39It looks like it has been fed on, I don't know, elephant dung or something.
26:43Steroids.
26:44Amazing.
26:45Well, the garden and this kitchen are run by Ceres, the Centre for Education and Research
26:51in Environmental Studies.
26:53They also have a restaurant upstairs where the Tamil feast will soon be served.
26:58But first, let's see what's happening downstairs, behind the scenes in the kitchen.
27:04I can see that you've taken all that beautiful fresh silverbeet for the curry.
27:09What's the first step?
27:10Uh, we chop the silverbeet and also potato also we add together.
27:17We're going to cook that one.
27:19So you've just chopped it fairly roughly?
27:21Yes, roughly.
27:22And then the potato, that's all just been diced?
27:25Yes, diced.
27:26And we're going to cook this one nearly one hour with other spices.
27:30We're going to add cumin, fennel and a little bit of black mustard seed and salt, turmeric
27:38powder and cinnamon powder and green chilli also.
27:42So it's not that difficult.
27:43You just boil it all for one hour.
27:45Did you add any water?
27:47Uh, no, no water.
27:48We're going to add a little bit later coconut milk.
27:51So this one, uh, without oil, we cook it without oil.
27:55Without oil?
27:56Yes.
27:57So it's just boiling in the moisture from the silverbeet?
28:00Yes.
28:01These little tricks, these are the pieces, the morsels of information that you can only
28:07get when you're right here in the kitchen above the pot hearing it straight from the man.
28:12I'm going to cook it.
28:13Nirmak, what are you going to be making?
28:15Uh, today I'm going to make five kilo okra.
28:19Okay?
28:20That's a lot of okra.
28:21A lot of okra.
28:22I like the red onion.
28:23Yes, red onion.
28:24I want red onion.
28:25Ooh.
28:26And also fried green chili.
28:28Let me have a look.
28:29Wait a minute.
28:30Ooh, they look hot.
28:31Yes.
28:32I think they're hot.
28:34Makes my eyes water.
28:36Okay.
28:37I think it's the colour of the food that is really good too.
28:41Fresh is so important, isn't it?
28:43Fresh, yes.
28:44Because this was all out in the paddock just this morning.
28:48Okay.
28:49So now I'm going to add okra.
28:51This is the moment of truth.
28:52The okra.
28:53Okay.
28:54Can I stir it while you're gone?
28:56I'm a stirrer.
28:58It smells just magnificent.
29:01Oh, here we go.
29:02Keep doing.
29:03Keep doing.
29:04All right.
29:05There's your kilos and kilos of lady fingers.
29:07My goodness.
29:08Keep stirring.
29:11Wow.
29:12I'll let it get heated up a bit.
29:14Yeah.
29:16Stick.
29:17Do you have any more?
29:20Three nights a week, the feasts have become sold out events.
29:24Over the past two years, Nero and the Tamil community have fed over 15,000 people.
29:32We are ready to serve.
29:34Yes.
29:35Thank you so much.
29:39I really like the way they've integrated the whole cultural experience into a community garden setting.
29:46It's a way of bringing people together and to share and to embrace culture and people.
29:52The social thing where you all eat together, talk together, live and love together.
29:57It's just the way to go.
29:59It's that one thing that unifies everyone.
30:02It's the universal language.
30:04It really brings people to the table.
30:06It's a great way to start conversation.
30:09It's a good thing for us.
30:11I never, never imagine food makers change our life in Australia.
30:20It's a good thing for me, yeah.
30:23I really, really am proud.
30:25Cook the food for Australian people.
30:26Australian people, they really enjoy our food and we also enjoy to see the people, new people in here.
30:33Thanks for sharing your menus with us, the recipes, it's fantastic to see.
30:37Thank you so much, thank you so much.
30:39For Niro and the Tamil community, this is more than just a meal.
30:44It's a way for them to stay closely connected with their culture and to share and celebrate it with others.
30:51Every week we are looking forward, celebrating with Australian.
31:04If I had to sum up Jane, it would be solid, authentic, talented, beautiful, spunky, a bit sassy and a bit edgy, yeah.
31:18Jane has been a guiding light really for so many women in the industry.
31:24I've loved what a straightforward person she is.
31:27Encouraging, but often just putting you in the position, giving you an opportunity to come into the room and she did that with me.
31:35I remember early on seeing Jane as one of the only few women on TV shows in a prominent role, in a leadership role.
31:42I was like, oh that's cool. And I didn't necessarily think about it at the time, but looking back I can see that she helps kind of plant the seed of what's possible for young women growing up to be on telly.
31:54So I think she's probably helped plant that seed in me. So yeah, forever grateful.
31:58She has this gift of communication, but also this generosity which she's taken to everything that she's done, you know, for our show and for gardening, communication, but also for all the gardeners she's met along the way.
32:10I think she's shaped a lot of how we garden and in terms of Australian gardening culture has really helped inject a flavour of her own no fuss and no frills into gardening.
32:22Like everyone can get out there. There's something for everybody. And you just go, just go have a crack, you know, she's the best.
32:28Gardening is forever grateful for Jane Edmondson.
32:32Jane, earlier we were talking about your career and just how much of a trailblazer you've been for women in horticulture.
32:48And it made me think about a century ago and the work that Edna Walling did.
32:56She was really amazing because in the 1920s and 1930s when she was really an influential landscape designer, there were very few women who had careers.
33:06So she was really quite remarkable as is this next garden that I had the pleasure of visiting.
33:12This is Cull Raven. It's a large sprawling garden in Olinda in the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne.
33:28And it was designed by the famed landscaper Edna Walling.
33:32Since it was created in the mid-1940s, it's somehow fallen out of the popular canon of gardens she created.
33:43But this so-called hidden Edna Walling garden has been lovingly restored to its former glory by owners Professor Hugh Taylor and Dr Liz Dax.
33:54Hello. Hi Jane. How are you?
33:56What a magnificent garden. It's really, really lovely. And big. How big is it?
34:00Thank you. Welcome.
34:01It's six acres.
34:03You must love having it as a garden.
34:05We do. And it's been special to revive it in Edna Walling's ambience and structure.
34:13Edna Walling was this English garden designer who came to Australia and started in the 1920s.
34:19And she was really specialised in woodland gardens.
34:22Yes.
34:23Jane, these are historic steps.
34:26They're put in by Eric Hammond.
34:28Yes.
34:29And Ella Stone who, you know, worked together with Edna Walling and did a wonderful job, made beautiful stone work and also these stone walls over here.
34:39Yeah.
34:40They were great stone masons.
34:41They had an appreciation of what rocks and stones should be like.
34:44Yeah, they really did.
34:45Yes.
34:46That's lovely with the moss.
34:48Edna Walling's designs were influenced by her childhood in the Devon countryside in southwest England.
34:56They feature loose flowering woodlands, meandering paths and rooms flowing into each other so the garden slowly reveals itself.
35:05The structure of the garden is very important.
35:07There's this mossy lawn and then there's the rooms which go up towards the road there.
35:14Now, a garden room was really characteristic of Edna Walling, wasn't it?
35:18Yes.
35:19Yes.
35:20And she liked that intimacy of space that led to something new and different between the rooms.
35:27And this particular one was filled with bluebells.
35:30Oh, it's magnificent though.
35:31Yes.
35:32So if we'd been here two weeks ago, it would have been perfect.
35:35Absolutely blue carpet.
35:36It speaks of her English heritage particularly, doesn't it?
35:39That's true.
35:43From the 1920s to the 1960s, Edna Walling designed about 300 Australian gardens.
35:49But over the years, many of her gardens have disappeared, lost to time.
35:54Now, this is another room and, you know, on either side it's got these yews and it's got these beautiful trees around it.
36:05The trees are quite magnificent, aren't they?
36:07And some of them are sort of 40 or 50 metres tall.
36:10Whoa.
36:11They're just huge.
36:12As a canopy cover, it's just beautiful, isn't it?
36:15Yeah.
36:16And of course, they're about 80 years old, these particular ones.
36:19It's all planted in the 40s.
36:21Wow-ee.
36:22Liz and Hugh have both had stellar careers in medical science and academia.
36:29They're retired now and the garden revival is their labour of love.
36:34Could you tell me how did you come by this place and how long have you been here?
36:38Well, my grandparents bought it in 1941 and then it passed to my mother and then we inherited it 25 years ago.
36:47And so we've been working in the garden for the last 25 years or so.
36:52Wow.
36:53And what was it like when you came?
36:54Edna Walling was known for over-planting and when we took over the garden, there was a lot of very big trees that blocked all the light from anything below it.
37:05And there were some radies and camellias and azaleas and stuff, but a lot of the understory had died or disappeared.
37:11So we've essentially started from scratch in some ways, but very cognisant of the way that Walling would have wanted it to look, we hope.
37:23But obviously added different plants.
37:27It is a true shade garden, but I find the green and the peace just wonderful.
37:36Look at this!
37:38It's wonderful, isn't it?
37:40It's a beautiful Copper Beach.
37:41And you can see why it's called Copper Beach.
37:44Oh, it's beautiful.
37:45It's got a pinkness even to the trunk, hasn't it?
37:48Yes.
37:49Yes.
37:50That's lovely.
37:51What a tree.
37:52But you really need a very big garden.
37:53Yeah.
37:54So this particular room is probably most like the woodland that Walling would have really loved to have created.
38:01And so it's got the open area and then these wonderful trees.
38:06And each one is embracing, I think.
38:09And these trees just fold you in and wellness is all around us.
38:16Very true.
38:17Let's take a very deep breath of oxygen.
38:20I mean, the work is immense if you look at the size of the garden.
38:25And that doesn't sort of phase you at all?
38:27We were encouraged to start slowly and do one bit at a time.
38:32Some parts of the garden are absolutely Edna Wallings and we try to keep them like that.
38:38And other parts of the garden we've developed a little bit more along our own interpretation of the way she would like to have it so it fits together as a coherent whole.
38:50You didn't tell me about the mossy paths.
38:52Well, this is one of the beautiful mossy paths.
38:54Oh, it's just gorgeous.
38:56Yeah, they are lovely.
38:57Wow.
38:58I feel guilty walking on it.
39:00No, perfectly okay to walk on.
39:03This is a signature Edna Walling aquilegia.
39:06Yeah, good old granny's bonnets.
39:08Yes, granny's bonnets.
39:09And there's numbers of them through the garden.
39:11Oh, it's lovely.
39:12Yes.
39:13And I spotted a little bit.
39:14Oh, yes.
39:15We love the lily of the valley.
39:16Lily of the valley.
39:17Yeah, it's lovely.
39:18Oh, gosh.
39:19It's all very Englishy, isn't it?
39:21And down here, Jane, we have some unusual things, which are the arasemas.
39:25See all the flowers in there?
39:27Oh, my goodness.
39:28Oh, they're so strange, aren't they?
39:30Golly.
39:31Oh, this has to be a special one, doesn't it?
39:35It's a hawthorn.
39:36And we've been told it's a Mexican hawthorn.
39:39So it's, you know, could be up to 100 years old.
39:42You can see how it's twisted and turned and it's showing its age.
39:46Oh!
39:47And I call it the magic far away tree.
39:50Yes, that's true.
39:52It's lovely.
39:53It is.
39:54It's wonderful.
39:55We're now walking down the birch walk.
39:56Yep.
39:57Some of the original birch trees here still.
40:00And some have died over the years and fallen down.
40:03So we've replanted them.
40:05But this was very much a Ned and a Walling feature.
40:09Yes, silver birches were really her main characteristic tree, weren't they?
40:13Yes, they really were.
40:14And then if you look down here, there's the rock garden that's got beautiful colours.
40:21That's pink and purple.
40:22Oh, that's lovely.
40:23So we can sit and admire the view.
40:25Sit and admire the view.
40:26Yes, beautiful.
40:27It's just...
40:28It is so pretty.
40:29Gosh.
40:30It's the sunniest spot in the garden, so that's why the rockery was so successful, really,
40:35because it soaks up that sun.
40:37But this is still such a lovely place to sit in the sun and to look at the view,
40:42to look at the garden and to think nice thoughts.
40:46Owning a historic garden, which is really important for Australia,
40:51because she was really a mighty sort of landscaper.
40:54Yes.
40:55And very busy lady.
40:56Yes, ma'am.
40:57And the thing is, there's not that many gardens of Edna Wallings around anymore.
41:00It's true.
41:01Yours would be one of the very few.
41:03Yes.
41:04Yes.
41:05So do you feel that it's really important for you, as a couple,
41:08to keep this going as best you can?
41:10Oh, I certainly want to, and I hope my parents, and particularly my grandparents,
41:15would be proud of the way the garden is looking today.
41:18It does have history, and so it's something of a responsibility,
41:22but it's a joyful responsibility, and it means that we can share that garden.
41:28Yeah.
41:29Because people are interested in it, and I think we really love to share it, don't we?
41:35Yeah, but it's also a privilege to have it.
41:37Yes.
41:38And to have the space and the views and the garden rooms that you suddenly walk into
41:43and the mossy paths.
41:44I mean, it's just lovely to be here.
41:47Jane has been around for as long as I can even remember.
41:57Watching her from when I was teeny tiny till now.
42:01Jane Edmondson was one of the first faces of gardening that I encountered
42:06when I emigrated to Australia in 1992.
42:09And I immediately wanted to listen to everything that she said.
42:13I think what our viewers love about Jane is her no-nonsense approach to gardening.
42:17It's just simple, straightforward, and you know you're going to get it right
42:20because, I mean, she's a safe pair of hands.
42:22I really appreciated her taking me under her wing.
42:26Jane, I hope you never get asked another question about lemons.
42:31Oh, go!
42:41Here we go.
42:42Are you going to do an Oscar Piastri?
42:44Yeah.
42:45Exactly.
42:46Jane, how many stories do you think you've done here in the gardens over the years?
42:52Thinking about it, it would have to be nearly a hundred, I'd say.
42:55Wow.
42:56Yeah.
42:57So it really has become my backyard.
42:58Yeah.
42:59It really is.
43:00And then this cacti garden here, that's a collection that was donated.
43:05It's wonderful.
43:06People's love continues on.
43:07Yeah.
43:08And like a life's passion.
43:10A life, yeah.
43:11And to think that it wasn't just bulldozed.
43:13No, that's the f-
43:14No, that's the f-
43:15What on earth is happening here?
43:16Oh!
43:17Oh!
43:18Oh!
43:19Oh!
43:20Oh!
43:21Oh!
43:22Oh!
43:23Oh!
43:24Oh!
43:25Oh!
43:26Oh!
43:27Oh!
43:28Oh, you embarrass me!
43:29Oh!
43:30Oh!
43:31Oh!
43:32Oh!
43:33Oh!
43:34Oh!
43:35Oh!
43:36Oh, Costa, you sneaky person!
43:38Oh!
43:39Oh!
43:40Oh!
43:41Yeah!
43:42Oh!
43:43Oh!
43:44Oh!
43:45Now I'm crying!
43:46Oh, dear!
43:47Lovely Sophie!
43:48Oh!
43:49Good to see you!
43:50Hello, darling!
43:51Hello!
43:52Oh!
43:53Hello, little one!
43:54Hello!
43:55Hello!
43:56Oh, you've got to give Jane a pic!
43:57Oh!
43:58Oh!
43:59Oh!
44:00Oh!
44:01Oh my goodness!
44:02How about we get your cake?
44:03Hey!
44:04The young girl!
44:05Who's this?
44:06Oh!
44:07Such a shock!
44:09That's lovely to see you all!
44:10Really lovely!
44:11Oh!
44:12Oh my goodness!
44:13Jane, you have been a lighthouse shining bright for over 38 years as part of our Gardening
44:26Australia family.
44:27You've been a gardening presenter for close to four decades.
44:31Shh!
44:32Don't tell anyone!
44:33Stop harping on us!
44:34All right, all right, all right.
44:35That's fine.
44:36We knew that you didn't want any fuss.
44:38Oh!
44:39Yeah, that went a long way, didn't it?
44:41So it did.
44:42Yeah.
44:43But we just want to say how much...
44:47What?
44:48How much what?
44:49We want to say how much your ethos is part of the very fabric of this show.
45:05Even though you're moving on to more things in gardening, your storytelling, your passion
45:16for what we love is embedded in the very DNA of Gardening Australia forever.
45:22Fair.
45:23And on behalf of all of us, we want to say we love you, you're with us forever, and we
45:29wish you well in all the new chapters ahead.
45:32Yeah!
45:36We want to have a look at some wonderful memories.
45:45Oh!
45:50Ah, made it!
45:55But it's really startling, because I was on the very first show all those years ago,
46:01and it makes me feel ancient.
46:02Hello there.
46:03I'm Jane Edmondson with Victoria's part of Garden Australia.
46:08Oh, my.
46:11I was hoping to have a lovely relaxing time on this beautiful green grassy spot.
46:17It's part of the Ornamental Plant Collections Association, run by volunteers, and they've got
46:21a massive amount of things to look at.
46:24Many of the salvias have got grey leaves.
46:26I don't like looking at myself on the telly.
46:28It's weird, isn't it?
46:30I sometimes go, oh, what am I doing now, you know?
46:33They really are a very special bloom.
46:36Very different than the bedding begonias that are so popular.
46:39If you're considering coming to Ballarat, think about coming next March.
46:42It has been a real honour to show gardens that are so lovely, and all the gardens are so generous
46:51in their time and their spirit, you know?
46:53They're gardeners, and they just love it.
46:55And that's been really a pleasure to be able to show some of their creative work.
47:00This is a wonderland.
47:02Absolutely amazing.
47:03How many plants have you got here?
47:05Oh, it could be around 10,000 approximately, yeah.
47:09This is Wayne's World.
47:10It's fantastic.
47:11How many orchids have you got here?
47:12Oh, it must be nearly a quarter of a million now.
47:15How lucky are you, eh?
47:16It's wonderful.
47:17What goes into designing a garden that makes you feel something?
47:22Oh, yes, please.
47:23Oh, great.
47:24Let's go.
47:25This is a treat.
47:26Isn't it gorgeous?
47:27Oh.
47:28It really is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness.
47:31Wait until you see what is on the other side of this house.
47:36Oh, boy.
47:37Wow.
47:42I'm going to be cheeky and ask if I can have a little cutting of it.
47:45I'll get you some seed.
47:46Oh, would you?
47:47Oh.
47:48Most exciting.
47:49Well, this grows well and I love that.
47:51That's that tree marigold.
47:53Take out his lemon eye, yeah.
47:54Beautiful.
47:55Isn't it gorgeous?
47:56Whoa.
47:57Lovely colour.
47:58Isn't that a bright, vibrant thing?
47:59And then this one.
48:00What is this?
48:01I have spotted something here that looks absolutely phenomenal.
48:05And that's beautiful.
48:06I love this little space.
48:08Oh, it's very neat and nice though, isn't it?
48:10I often think that you can tell a person's personality by looking in their garden shed.
48:15You sure can.
48:16It's an honour to come into people's gardens, but I really have liked the way that Gardening
48:23Australia has combined the inspirational and the practical.
48:28But how do you attract more bees into your garden?
48:31How do you go about killing slugs and snails organically?
48:34We talk simple common sense, not gobbly-gooky.
48:38Now there's a real myth about growing them in hothouses.
48:41Is that true or what?
48:42And out near the hills hoist, why not dry your handkerchiefs or your tea towels on them?
48:46Because it makes them smell nice.
48:48And this one dappledorn makes a really nice thick hedge.
48:51It stops the kids and dogs walking on the garden bed and cattle too from straying into
48:56your garden.
48:57This one here is a Schlumbergera.
48:59Isn't that a wonderful name?
49:00It used to be called the Zygoe cactus, but it's got a new name, Schlumbergera.
49:04And if you can remember that, you're doing well.
49:06Have a look at this bountiful supply of miniature tomatoes.
49:09It's called the Jade tree.
49:10It's often called the Lucky plant because if you grow it by your front door in a pot,
49:15it may well bring you luck.
49:17Or you can just let them rot on the garden bed.
49:19They really are nature's carpet.
49:22Here they are, the patio and miniature roses.
49:25They're fit for growing in a pot on a veranda, a patio or even a pocket handkerchief courtyard garden.
49:31Gardening's good for you, you know, good physically, mentally, all that type of thing.
49:35I think we sit too much and watch our iPads and all that sort of stuff and get out, put them down and go out into the garden.
49:41But I'm going to show you right now how simple it is to lay this stuff.
49:51Have a look at that.
49:53Whoa!
49:54That is really, oh, juicy.
49:57Nearly good enough to put on your muesli.
49:59Ooh!
50:00Caught me!
50:01How are you going?
50:02Oh!
50:03I'll buy you one.
50:04I'll get you one.
50:05I'll see you.
50:06Wow!
50:07Good to see you!
50:08Do you want to share my ice cream?
50:10No.
50:12Very juicy.
50:13It is.
50:14It's got a sort of slightly limey flavour.
50:16One of the most common questions that we get asked is, what is wrong with my lemon tree?
50:21Many people have a lemon tree in their backyard.
50:23What's wrong with my citrus?
50:25What's eating the skin of all my lemons?
50:28Can you put orange peel into a compost?
50:31Why does this citrus have flowers but no fruit?
50:34What the lumpy bits are that have suddenly appeared on their lemon trees?
50:37What on earth is going on?
50:39And people say, oh, it must be lovely this wandering in and sort of walking around someone's garden.
50:43Well, sometimes it is always good, but sometimes the weather is against you.
50:48You've got wind that's blowing your hair, you know, rain that no-one cares about.
50:52You just do it.
50:53Rain, hail or shine.
50:54It doesn't matter.
50:55When do you prune your mysteria?
50:57Oh!
50:58Oh!
50:59Oh!
51:00Oh!
51:01Oh!
51:02Oh, my goodness, great.
51:05I can't move.
51:07This is like a quagmire.
51:09You're the first lady that I've been in a pond with.
51:12I haven't even been in a pond with my wife.
51:15Nearly every time I film there's something strange.
51:18Phew.
51:19While it might be nice to wave your magic wand and say, Natus Expelliarmus.
51:26I've recently had a very exciting time flying around Victoria in a helicopter.
51:31We dropped right onto the school ovals.
51:33Boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo, boo.
51:36So that's the Providence Petrol.
51:37Oh!
51:38It was the Providence Petrol.
51:40Mine aren't the neatest things that you could ever imagine.
51:44A dumpling is a small food that dots the heart.
51:47I think I'm feeling a little bit sorry for my dumpling but that's okay.
51:50I'm learning how to knit a poppy and I'm learning from experts.
51:54And they had me sitting there knitting away.
51:57My knitting was just terrible.
51:59Making a lovely little poppy like this looks so easy but these ladies were doing it beautifully
52:03and, boy, mine were pathetic.
52:05It's a good time to sneak in a kick.
52:06Yes!
52:07Yes!
52:08Yes!
52:09Yes!
52:10Yes!
52:11Yes!
52:12Yes!
52:13Yes!
52:14Yes!
52:15Yes!
52:16Edmundson in.
52:17Landing forward.
52:18Oh!
52:19She's had a cut like that one!
52:20Oh!
52:21That's gone!
52:22That's gone!
52:23That's out of here!
52:24That's a six!
52:25I knew I should have stuck to footy!
52:27My most memorable, that's very hard because there's been a lot of them, a community garden
52:32down in Springvale.
52:34Now Springvale is known for its Vietnamese, Asian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Australian,
52:41all sorts of nationalities.
52:43It was fantastic and that was a real treat because, you know, just to get people together
52:47like that around a garden makes all the difference.
52:51We had one man, his garden was a small garden and he had a little temple in the garden.
52:56You have a long life and beautiful life.
53:00And, you know, he made a beautiful marigold necklace around my neck and blessed the garden.
53:05Om Shanti Shanti.
53:07It was really moving, you know.
53:09It was really nice.
53:11If I could tell anyone, doesn't matter how old I are, to take up gardening or horticulture
53:16because you never know where it leads.
53:18Your interest in plants will be forever.
53:20Pottering.
53:21It's a great gardening word and I love pottering in my garden.
53:25I get such a lot of pleasure out of doing and being and just nestling in.
53:30And I'm going to go back to relaxing and watching the grass grow.
53:34Well, that was a really great experience.
53:37It really touched me.
53:38Amazing.
53:39And it's finished!
53:41Yay!
53:42Sayonara!
53:43Yay!
53:46Whoa!
53:49That's brought up such a lot of memories that, you know, you just forget.
53:52It's just time's gone.
53:53Boom!
53:54Garden Australia, you know, has been part of people's lives for so long and will continue to do so.
54:00And it's just lovely.
54:02I'm lovely to see you all though.
54:03I can't believe it.
54:04All these people, all the...
54:05Oh, it's just great.
54:07I'm glad we didn't finish on the lemon tree question.
54:09That was really, really good.
54:11I'm very, very pleased.
54:12But there's one other person I would like to thank and that is Elizabeth, who has worked
54:16with me since the very beginning.
54:18Yay!
54:19I could keep on going but it's just lovely that you were all here.
54:25Jane Edmondson.
54:26Cheers!
54:27Cheers!
54:28Cheers, Jane!
54:29Cheers!
54:30Cheers!
54:31Cheers, Jane!
54:32Cheers!
54:33Cheers!
54:34Thank you very much.
54:35Hello!
54:36Hello!
54:37Hello!
54:38Hello!
54:39Hello!
54:40Oh!
54:41Yeah!
54:42Patrick!
54:43Go Saiders!
54:44Go Saiders!
54:45Oh look at this.
54:46Do you recognise that?
54:47Oh yes!
54:48Oh that's lovely.
54:49Yeah.
54:50Isn't that beautiful?
54:51I love cards like that.
54:54I love that.
54:55Oh.
54:56Oh.
54:57Oh.
54:58Oh.
54:59Oh.
55:00Oh, yes.
55:01Oh, yes.
55:02Oh, yes.
55:03Oh, yes.
55:04Oh, that's lovely.
55:05Yeah.
55:06It's beautiful.
55:07It's beautiful.
55:08I love cards like that.
55:09I love that.
55:10Oh, thank you, Clarence. Nice to see you.
55:13Oh, my God. I couldn't believe what I saw when they're standing there.
55:19Look at this. Look at that.
55:21The very final 11.
55:22I didn't like it.
55:24I didn't like it.
55:26No, I didn't like it.
55:27No, no, I didn't like it.
55:29Are you OK?
55:30Yep, I'm good.
55:31I'm so glad you were there.
55:32I'm so glad you were there.
55:33It was so nice to see you.
55:36Now he's lying.
55:37I'm sorry.
55:38While we continue to celebrate the amazing Jane Edmondson,
55:42of course, we've got plenty brewing for next week.
55:46It's our final episode for the year,
55:48and we're pulling out all the stops.
55:50I'll see you then.
55:52Anyone for cake?
55:56I visit a garden on a steep, challenging site
56:00using native plants to hold it all in place
56:02and all done by a first-time gardener.
56:05I'm making a floral ice bucket,
56:08a cool centrepiece to show your favourite tipple
56:10at your next soiree.
56:12How beautiful is this?
56:14This is the Butterfly House at Melbourne Zoo.
56:17Today, I'm going to learn from the experts
56:19how we can all entice more of these absolute beauties
56:22into our gardens.
56:24And I'm hanging out in a flourishing market garden
56:27that's growing traditional produce
56:30for a surprising variety of communities
56:33in south-western Sydney.
56:36Well, this is it.
56:37The last goodbye.
56:38I've enjoyed every moment with you.
56:41Happy gardening.
56:42Cheers.
56:42Cheers.
56:42Cheers.
56:43Cheers.
56:44Cheers.
56:45Cheers.
56:46Cheers.
56:47Cheers.
56:48Cheers.
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56:50Cheers.
56:51Cheers.
56:52Cheers.
56:53Cheers.
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56:55Cheers.
56:56Cheers.
56:57Cheers.
56:58Cheers.
56:59Cheers.
57:00Cheers.
57:01Cheers.
57:02Cheers.
57:03Cheers.
57:04Cheers.
57:05Cheers.
57:06Cheers.
57:07Cheers.
57:08Cheers.
57:09Cheers.
57:10Cheers.
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