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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,
00:50I'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
01:49with some of these beautiful trees like the blue gun there.
01:52I thought, this is a bit of a wasted space,
01:54but it needed just a little bit more oomph in it.
01:57One day I happened to see Andrew Laidlaw,
01:59who's the landscape architect here at the Botanic Gardens,
02:02and 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
02:15from regions with climates like Melbourne's hotter, drier future,
02:19not only as part of the Botanic Gardens climate succession plan,
02:23but also to inspire the gardeners of tomorrow.
02:27It's an experimental area,
02:29but 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,
02:40and we built this, well, the gardens built it,
02:42and there's such an enthusiasm about it,
02:45I think the thing that has created the most enthusiasm
02:48is this wildflower meadow.
02:50Yeah.
02:51Just a sea of colour, it's just beautiful.
02:53Yeah. Yeah.
02:54And they're wonderful, they're the everlasting rhodanthes,
02:56and then in amongst there's little purple flowers
02:59and 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
03:13with a gentle winding path that invites you in.
03:16The background to this whole garden is lots of mature trees,
03:20and, you know, there's some really good examples,
03:22that one there is just lovely.
03:23Yeah, the angophora.
03:24Yeah, that's one of your favourites.
03:25It's interesting to see it in Melbourne
03:27because not being on a windswept ridge,
03:30it hasn't got all the bends and twists, it's quite straight.
03:33But look at the trunk, I 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
03:41like this fervalium.
03:43Yeah.
03:44Fervalium squamulosum.
03:46That sounds like a disease, doesn't it?
03:48Yeah.
03:49Is it curable?
03:50It is curable if you grow it,
03:52because 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...
03:57Wow.
03:58It's 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.
04:08Yeah.
04:09Aren't they gorgeous?
04:10Yeah, they look like little eggs.
04:11It's amazing, isn't it?
04:12It's very exciting,
04:13because some of these things people don't know about.
04:15You know, I didn't know that this existed.
04:16Yeah.
04:17That's terrific, yeah.
04:18Yeah.
04:21The drylands garden holds some very rare species.
04:24Some are even critically endangered.
04:26Seeds, specimens and expertise
04:29have been gathered from across Australia,
04:32entrusted by botanic gardens, native nurseries,
04:35seed banks and universities.
04:37Because many are growing out of their climate range,
04:40the garden is a living laboratory,
04:43collecting knowledge to help guide the future.
04:49Signage is such a big part of storytelling,
04:52and in a setting like this,
04:53you've then got these burnt trunks.
04:56It's very dramatic, aren't they?
04:57Yeah, yeah.
04:58And it catches your eye.
04:59It draws you up here.
05:00Yeah.
05:01Well, that's sort of giving a nod
05:03to how important bushfires are
05:05in the whole scheme of growing native plants,
05:07because our native plant landscape
05:09is 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,
05:23but 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
05:35all of the different grasses,
05:37and they just create such a softness
05:40to draw your eye throughout the landscape.
05:42It's very natural, isn't it?
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
05:57surrounded by cycads and palms,
06:00and 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,
06:11but 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,
06:23like that cabbage tree palm there.
06:25Isn't that spectacular?
06:27Yeah.
06:28They run right up the coast,
06:29and I know them in Sydney,
06:31and they're like a marker for the literal rainforest.
06:33Where you are.
06:34That'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, you know, very, very nicely.
06:47The Canedia cochineia 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
07:04in her art installation, Seeds of Hope.
07:07There's also QR codes that you can scan
07:11to listen to soundscapes and interviews
07:15to dive deeper and learn more about the garden,
07:18as well as hear some of the poetry aloud.
07:21Here we go.
07:22That's for you.
07:23Yeah.
07:24Okay.
07:25Put it on.
07:26We each have seeds of hope
07:37and 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
07:56and so many people have contributed,
07:58whether it's with their time,
07:59their knowledge, creativity or philanthropy.
08:03My hope is that the garden inspires
08:05more of those connections in visitors,
08:07that everyone can see the role they can play
08:10in caring for plants
08:12and for the planet that sustains us all.
08:15So I noticed this plaque here, Jane.
08:21This 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?
08:38If we all lived by that, the whole world would be okay.
08:42It feels like the perfect spot for you
08:46to let us in on 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
09:03and humble, really.
09:04And it's been a pleasure for me for so many years
09:07to present what I do on the program.
09:10But it's time.
09:11And I will move on and do other things
09:13within the horticultural world
09:15and still see you and all the lovely faces on the telly.
09:19It'll be just lovely.
09:20But time's right.
09:23Look, 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
09:39and you're the only remaining presenter in the team
09:47that's been there since the first episode.
09:50Yeah.
09:51It 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.
10:28Just keep doing it and 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
10:47is 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
11:11gardening'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
11:19to 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.
11:52Yeah.
11:53You certainly have been, Jane.
11:54You've set a wonderful benchmark for generations.
12:00And we're going to miss you.
12:02Oh, I'm going to miss everyone too.
12:04But I'll still be watching.
12:05My eagle eye will be watching your hair and your beard
12:08and your costumes and I'll still be watching.
12:11Don't you worry.
12:12But 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.
12:21The sound people, the cameramen, the producers,
12:25you 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.
12:41Could 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.
13:05The hydrangea, quite a common plant
13:07in 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,
13:17and 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.
13:25I don't know where that wink came from.
13:27I think it was just a nervous habit.
13:29You know,
13:30ah, I've said what I want to say
13:31and I'll just give it a wink,
13:32just to kind of double emphasise the fact.
13:34Once a stranger looked over the fence and said to me,
13:43oh, you're that lady on the television.
13:45I thought you would have had a very neat, structured kind of garden
13:48with English box.
13:49And I said, oh no, phooey to that.
13:51I just like things to move, a little bit of life.
13:53It's important to me.
13:54Oh, that looks better.
13:55Heck.
13:56I was born in Mildura,
13:57up in the Sunraysia area.
13:58And we lived there until I was about five.
14:00My dad and mum then moved us down to Melbourne,
14:02where we grew up in the suburbs,
14:03North Caulfield,
14:04and we lived there until I was about five.
14:07My dad and mum then moved us down to Melbourne,
14:09where we grew up in the suburbs,
14:10North Caulfield,
14:11and we lived there until I was about five.
14:13And we lived there until I was about five.
14:16And we lived there until I was about five.
14:18And we lived there until I was about five.
14:20And my mum then moved us down to Melbourne,
14:23where we grew up in the suburbs,
14:25North Caulfield,
14:26and I went to the North Caulfield Central School.
14:29And my mum had the most beautiful garden.
14:33Now this is something that my mum did.
14:35She was really, really a creative person,
14:37not only in the garden but also in the garden,
14:41creative person, not only in the garden, but she just loved doing embroidery. That's Danish
14:45embroidery, all those beautiful little flowers, stitch by stitch.
14:49Well, I always think that when you're in your teenagers, oh gardening, who wants to do gardening?
14:55So I went teaching to a place called Dimboola, it was a little country town, and there the
15:00very smart, astute headmaster said, Jane, you're an outdoor looking girl, and I was
15:05and still am, and he said, you do this extra little bit, apart from all the other subjects
15:09I was teaching, you go and look after the kids in the garden. And that just showed me
15:15that I really wanted to be a gardener. I got a job at the state schools nursery, my friends
15:20thought I was mad because I'd gone from a teaching salary, which wasn't a lot in those days, but
15:26it was less working in a nursery, they thought I was jolly bonkers. And I did that for years
15:31and years, just pricking out plants, you know, standing at a bench doing very, I call, it's
15:37sort of mundane, but that's how I learned. I learned all the botanical names, I learned
15:41how they grew.
15:43Have a look at this. This is a sign that I took when I left the state schools nursery.
15:49It tells you the different lessons that the teachers from all around Victoria would come
15:53to the state schools nursery, learn about nature studies and gardening and then go back
15:57to their schools and teach it. I got it because I was always interested in the history and this
16:03is very fascinating on the back. See those gentlemen with their suits and their ties and their wing
16:09collars. They're all doing gardening jobs, not a woman amongst them. It's incredible.
16:15And that just showed me that when I wanted to be a gardener in a nursery in the 1970s, I
16:21had to bang on so many doors and nursery men would all say, no, we never accept women.
16:26And it took ages for me to find a decent nursery person who would give me a go. And now it's
16:32completely the opposite. In most nurseries, you'd find the predominance of women. So
16:36I think I was a little bit of a trailblazer.
16:46After many years, I had the opportunity to join in with some friends of mine in owning
16:51a little nursery, a little tiny suburban nursery in Preston, and it was a lovely experience.
16:58And we just had a lovely time. And that's where I really got to know how people
17:02in the suburban areas, how they like to garden. And that's where you really learned, not the
17:07highfalutin side of gardening, but the real basic gardening. You know, what people want
17:12in their backyards and their front gardens.
17:14I find people really fascinating. What was the first of the creations that you did?
17:22The first one was the eagle. Yes. Then after that, the big elephant, then the two babies.
17:29Oh, the two babies following the mother elephant. Yeah, two babies. This is a single mother.
17:33A single mother elephant. Two babies.
17:36Every time I go to someone's garden or I do a Garden Australia segment, it's always been
17:42a joy. Your broccoli looks good, Geoff. The people who love their gardens, you can see
17:48that they just love it. And in their hearts, they really want to share with you. They might
17:52be a bit nervous about being on the TV, but they just want to share and show how they've
17:56done their story. This is Jane at Darren's Big Backyard. I love doing radio. I was really born
18:09to be a talker on the radio. 1128, Jenny, good morning. I loved trying to influence people,
18:16to inspire them and to answer their gardening questions, which I did for 28 years. Have the
18:21leaves got, um, do they look like they've been sucked dry or not? No. Okay. All right.
18:27After 28 years, I thought, if I have to hear one other lemon tree question, I'm going to be,
18:32I'll go insane. So I thought, and also there's lots of things that I want to do. I still love
18:37the horticultural world. I still love the filming for TV, but it's just that thing of getting up every
18:43weekend, sat down Sunday morning. It's nice to have a break and I can go and do lots of other things.
18:47That is a big...
18:48In the last show, it was lovely to talk to everyone because they were very complimentary.
18:56It was the perfect way to go, especially as the very last question of my radio career was,
19:02what's wrong with my lemon tree? Oh dear. And I notice the beauty here, the good round like that.
19:13Done. Thank you. I'll take that home.
19:15Put it in the bars. If young Jane Dindula was to see Jane now, would she be surprised at what
19:23she's done? I think the young Jane from all those years ago, when she would flush red because of
19:29embarrassment and nervousness like anything, she would be totally amazed. Oh, this does remind me
19:35you're wrapping up a plum pudding. I pinch myself nearly every day and think, what a lucky person.
19:42Fortunate in a way, but you work towards what you get. But I have been fortunate.
19:47I've got a problem with this broccoli, if you could help me with it. Oh, let's have a look then.
19:55What's not to like about this lady? She is just really, what you see is what you get.
20:03Jane is the most amazing, passionate gardener and an incredible communicator of all things gardening.
20:10Jane doesn't suffer fools. And I think a lot of people really like that. There's no nonsense.
20:16It's just good information. She gets on with it. And I think that goes down really well.
20:21She's really relatable. So anyone that's watching her would think, I can have a go at that.
20:27She can kick a football like pretty much no one I've ever met personally.
20:31Wishing you all the best on the new adventures I know you will have. Happy gardening.
20:36Jane, thank you for all the years of knowledge sharing, of your kindness to all of us.
20:42Your kindness to me in the early days of me learning the ropes at Gardening Australia.
20:48For all of your encouragement. And best of luck in this next chapter of what you do.
21:00You know, Costa, a lot of the stories that we do really stick with you, don't they? They resonate.
21:06And it's usually, I'm thinking about it, it's usually how gardening is a vehicle that brings
21:12people together and they work as a community. And that's really lovely.
21:17Yeah, it's an incredible privilege to do what we do. We turn up, people welcome us into their world
21:25with such generosity. And this community that we visited together is one that has stuck with me ever
21:34since. This amazing spread has been created by a group of talented asylum seekers from Sri Lanka.
21:45And what began as a couple of one-off events to share their unique culture with the wider
21:50Melbourne community has quickly grown into sell-out feasts held in a restaurant three nights a week.
21:57Many of the fresh ingredients that they use have been sourced from Joe's Market Garden in Coburg,
22:04Melbourne's oldest and last surviving inner city market garden. Jane and I caught up with Nero,
22:12one of the Tamil cooks and main organisers.
22:16What are some of the things that you're picking for tonight's feast?
22:20Yeah, tonight we're cooking silverbeet quarry. So normally we're getting silverbeet from this farm.
22:29So today I come to pick up some silverbeet with you. So it's a good pleasure today.
22:35Is there any special preparation?
22:38No, that's easy. We can cook very quickly and we don't want too long to not want to cook.
22:48It's a very quick cook and tasty also. It's nice because I mean people have a limited use for
22:55silverbeet. Yeah. And now you're opening up a new recipe for people to use it in. Yeah,
23:00that's what they're saying. We never cook silverbeet curry. This is the first time we're tasting
23:04silverbeet, same like curry, good taste curry. Yeah, that's it. This looks like a really healthy
23:10bunch of greens. What do you do with it for the feast? Yeah, we are, we fill up
23:18some greens in our plate. So normally we have a three curries and some greens on the plate
23:24make a little bit beautiful and more healthier. So personally, I don't like salad, but I am getting
23:31used to and like now greens. So this salad items are now this we're getting from here, this farm.
23:43Jo's Market Garden is managed by Ceres, the Centre for Education and Research in Environmental Studies.
23:50The head gardener is Emily Connors. So the Tamal Feast crew, they actually contact me regularly.
23:58I'll ask them, what would you like me to grow? And they'll say, coriander please M,
24:02or you know, I'll tell them what I've got coming up. They'll actually tweak their menu to be as seasonal
24:10as possible. The peace and quiet of this garden is very different to where Nero came from in Sri Lanka.
24:19When I was very young age, I saw a very deadly war. So I saw most of the week something happened.
24:30Something happened mean someone died, someone missing, someone shooting the street in front of
24:36our house, a lot of people died. So tell us about the journey that you went through once you left home.
24:43I heard about, you know, that that time, a lot of boats come to Australia. So I got a chance to get on,
24:50to come by boat. So that's, I get on, I come by boat. So I said, on by boat, nearly three weeks journey,
25:02by boat through the Indian Ocean. So that's a very dangerous journey. I don't have space to trace
25:08our, like, we can't turn other side also. That's what people are, uh, next to very pile. And also very
25:15rough sea. So every second, uh, throw us in the air. We can feel straight how hard the wave, straight we
25:25can feel. And left home nearly 10 years, more than 10 years. My goodness. Wow.
25:31Uh, more than six years in detention centre.
25:39It's been a long journey to get all the way from his home country to where he's now cooking regular
25:45Tamil feasts in a nearby restaurant. And the success of these events has increased in leaps and bounds.
25:52One night a week, then two nights a week. So then after we start three nights a week. Before the
25:58maximum number of 40 people, then it's now 60 to 80 people. So that's a double bonus for us. We tell
26:05our story and we, uh, giving our, uh, our feast and we sharing everything. So that's a very big, uh, happy
26:13moment for us. Yeah. Wonderful. Just makes me feel good. I feel like I have to give everyone a hug.
26:19I want to give him a hug. Oh, so nice. Oh, lovely man. Oh. Hey Costa. It is. Yeah. It's a lovely story.
26:31It is. Thank you. Brilliant. Thank you. This is amazing. The crop you've been picking to go for this
26:38feast. It looks like it's been fed on, I don't know, elephant dung or something. Steroids. Amazing.
26:44Well, the garden and this kitchen are run by Ceres, the Centre for Education and Research in
26:51Environmental Studies. They 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. I can see that
27:04you've taken all that beautiful, fresh silverbeet for the curry. What's the first step?
27:11We chopped the silverbeet and also potato also we add together. We're going to cook that one.
27:18So you've just chopped it fairly roughly? Yes, roughly. And then the potato,
27:23that's all just been diced? Yes, diced. And we're going to cook this one nearly one hour with other
27:29spices. We'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. So it's not that difficult. You just boil it all
27:44for one hour. Did you add any water? No, no water. We're going to add a little bit later,
27:50coconut milk. So this one, without oil, we're cooking without oil. Without oil? Yes.
27:56So it's just boiling in the moisture from the silverbeet. Yes. These little tricks, these are
28:03the pieces, the morsels of information that you can only get when you're right here in the kitchen
28:08above the pot, hearing it straight from the man. Nirma, what are you going to be making?
28:15Ah, today I'm going to make five kilo okra, okay? That's a lot of okra. A lot of okra. I like the red onion.
28:22Yes, red onion. I want red onion. And also five green chilli. Let me have a look. Wait a minute.
28:29Yep. Oh, they look hot. Yes. I think they're hot. Makes my eyes water.
28:37Okay. I think it's the colour of the food that is really good too. Fresh is so important, isn't it?
28:43Fresh, fresh, fresh. Because this was all out of the paddock just this morning. Okay.
28:48So now I'm going to add okra. This is the moment of truth, the okra. Okay. Can I stir it while you're gone?
28:55I'm a stirrer. It smells just magnificent. Oh, here we go. Keep going. Keep going. All right.
29:03There's your kilos and kilos of lady fingers. My goodness. Keep stirring. Wow. I'll let it get heated up a bit.
29:13Yeah. Thanks, Nirma.
29:20Three nights a week, the feasts have become sold out events. Over the past two years, Niro and the Tamil community have fed over 15,000 people.
29:31We are ready to save. Yes. Yes. Thank you so much.
29:39I really like the way they've integrated the whole cultural experience into a community garden setting.
29:45It's a way of bringing people together and to share and to embrace culture and people.
29:51The social thing where you all eat together, talk together, live and love together. It's just the way to go.
29:58It's that one thing that unifies everyone. It's the universal language. It really brings people to the table.
30:06It's a great way to start conversation.
30:08I never, never imagine a food maker to change our life in Australia. It's a good thing for me. Yeah.
30:22I really, really am proud to cook the food for Australian people. They really enjoy our food.
30:28And we also enjoy to see the people, new people in here. Thanks for sharing your menus with us,
30:34the recipes. It's fantastic to see. Thank you so much. Thank you so much.
30:39For Niro and the Tamil community, this is more than just a meal. It's a way for them to stay closely
30:46connected with their culture and to share and celebrate it with others. Every week we are looking forward,
30:54celebrating with Australia.
30:55If I had to sum up Jane, it'd be solid, authentic, talented, beautiful, spunky, a bit sassy,
31:15and a bit edgy. Yeah.
31:16Jane has been a guiding light, really, for so many women in the industry. I've loved what a
31:25straightforward person she is. Encouraging, but often just putting you in the position,
31:31giving 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,
31:40in like in a leadership role. I was like, oh, that's cool. And I didn't, you know,
31:44you don't necessarily think about it at the time. But looking back, I can see that
31:48she helps kind of plant the seed of what's possible for young women growing up to be on
31:53telly. So 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
32:04that she's done, you know, for our show and for gardening communication, but also for all the
32:09gardeners she's met along the way. I think she's shaped a lot of how we garden
32:14and in terms of Australian gardening culture has really helped inject a flavour of her own no
32:20fuss and no frills into gardening. Like everyone can get out there. There's something for everybody.
32:25And you just go, just go have a crack, you know, she's the best.
32:29Gardening 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
32:46women in horticulture. And it made me think about a century ago and the work that Edna Walling did.
32:55She was really amazing because in the 1920s and 1930s, when she was really an influential landscape
33:02designer, there were very few women who had careers. So she was really quite remarkable as
33:09is this next garden that I had the pleasure of visiting.
33:21This 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.
33:35Since it was created in the mid-1940s, it's somehow fallen out of the popular canon of gardens
33:41she created. But this so-called hidden Edna Walling garden has been lovingly restored to its former glory
33:49by owners Professor Hugh Taylor and Dr. Liz Dax. Hello. Hi Jane. What a magnificent garden. It's really,
33:58really lovely. And big. How big is it? Thank you. Welcome. It's six acres. You must love having
34:04it as a garden. We do. And it's been special to revive it in Edna Walling's ambience and structure.
34:12Edna Walling was this English garden designer who came to Australia and started in the 1920s.
34:18And she was really specialised in woodland gardens. Yes.
34:22Jane, these are historic steps put in by Eric Hammond and Ella Stone who, you know, worked together
34:32with Edna Walling and did a wonderful job, made beautiful stone work and also these stone walls
34:38over here. They were great stone masons. They had an appreciation of what rocks and stones should be
34:43like. Yes, they really did. Yes. That's lovely with the moss. Edna Walling's designs were influenced
34:51by her childhood in the Devon countryside in South West England. They feature loose flowering woodlands,
34:58meandering paths and rooms flowing into each other so the garden slowly reveals itself.
35:05The structure of the garden is very important. There's this mossy lawn and then there's the rooms
35:12which go up towards the road there. Now, a garden room was really characteristic of Edna Walling,
35:17wasn't it? Yes, yes. And she liked that intimacy of space that led to something new and different
35:25between the rooms and this particular one was filled with bluebells. Oh, it's magnificent though.
35:31So if we'd been here two weeks ago it would have been perfect. Absolutely blue carpet. It speaks of
35:36her English heritage particularly, doesn't it? That's true.
35:39From the 1920s to the 1960s, Edna Walling designed about 300 Australian gardens. But over the years,
35:50many of her gardens have disappeared, lost to time. Now, this is another room and, you know, on either
35:59side it's got these yews and it's got these beautiful trees around it. The trees are quite magnificent,
36:07aren't they? And some of them are sort of 40 or 50 metres tall. They're just huge.
36:12As a canopy cover, it's just beautiful, isn't it? And of course they're about 80 years old,
36:17these particular ones. All are planted in the 40s. Wowee. Liz and Hugh have both had stellar careers
36:26in medical science and academia. They're retired now and the garden revival is their labour of love.
36:33Could 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 25 years
36:46ago. And so we've been working in the garden for the last 25 years or so. Wow. And what was it like
36:53when you came? Edna Walling was known for over planting. And when we took over the garden,
36:59there was a lot of very big trees that blocked all the light from anything below it. And there were
37:05some roadies and camellias and azaleas and stuff, but a lot of the understory had died or disappeared.
37:12So we've essentially started from scratch in some ways, but very cognisant of the way that Walling
37:21would have wanted it to look, we hope, but obviously added different plants. It is a true shade garden,
37:30but I find the green and the peace just wonderful. Look at this. It's wonderful, isn't it? It's a beautiful
37:40copper beach. And you can see why it's called copper beach. Oh, it's beautiful. It's got a pinkness even to
37:47the trunk, hasn't it? Yes. Yes. That's lovely. What a tree. But you really need a very big garden.
37:52Yeah. Yeah. So this particular room is probably most like the woodland that Walling would have
37:59really have loved to create it. And so it's got the open area and then these wonderful trees.
38:06And each one is embracing, I think. And these trees just fold you in and wellness is all around us.
38:17Very true. Let's take a very deep breath of oxygen.
38:22I 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?
38:28We were encouraged to start slowly and do one bit at a time. Some parts of the garden are absolutely
38:35Edna Wallings and we try to keep them like that. And other parts of the garden, we've developed a
38:40little bit more along our own interpretation of the way she would like to have it. So it fits together.
38:46Yes. As a coherent whole.
38:50You didn't tell me about the mossy paths. Well, this is one of the beautiful mossy paths.
38:54Oh, it's just gorgeous. Yes, they are lovely. Wow. I feel guilty walking on it. No,
39:00and it's perfectly okay to walk on. This is a signature Edna Walling Aquilegia.
39:06Yeah, good old Granny's bonnets. Yes, Granny's bonnets. And there's numbers of them through
39:10the garden. Oh, it's lovely. Yes. And I spotted a little bit. Oh, yes. We love the lily of the valley.
39:16Yeah, it's lovely. Oh, gosh. It's all very Englishy, isn't it? And down here, Jane,
39:21we have some unusual things, which are the Aracemas. See all the flowers in there? Oh,
39:26my goodness. Oh, they're so strange, aren't they? Golly. Oh, this has to be a special one,
39:33doesn't it? It's a hawthorn. And we've been told it's a Mexican hawthorn. So it's, you know,
39:40could be up to 100 years old. You can see how it's twisted and turned and it's showing its age.
39:47And I call it the magic faraway tree. Yes, that's true. It's lovely. It is. It's wonderful.
39:53We're now walking down the birch walk. Yep. And there's some of the original birch trees
39:58here still. And some have died over the years and fallen down. So we've replanted them. But this was
40:06very much a Ned and Walling feature. Yes, silver birches were really her main characteristic tree,
40:12weren't they? Yes, they really were. And then if you look down here, there's the rock garden that's
40:19got beautiful colours. That's pink and purple. Oh, that's lovely. So we can sit and admire the view.
40:26Sit and admire the view. Yes, beautiful. It's just, it is so pretty. Gosh. It's the sunniest spot in the garden,
40:31so that's why the rockery was so successful, really, because it soaks up that sun. But this
40:37is still such a lovely place to sit in the sun and to look at the view, to look at the garden,
40:43and to think nice thoughts. Owning a historic garden, which is really important for Australia,
40:51and because she was really a mighty sort of landscaper and very busy lady. And the thing is,
40:57there's not that many gardens of Edna Wallings around anymore. It's true. Yours would be one
41:02of the very few. Yes. Yes. So do you feel that it's really important for you as a couple to keep
41:08this going as best you can? Oh, I certainly want to. And I hope my parents, and particularly my
41:14grandparents, would be proud the way the garden is looking today. It does have history. And so it's
41:20something of a responsibility, but it's a joyful responsibility. And it means that we can share
41:27that garden. Yeah. Because people are interested in it. And I think we really love to share it,
41:34don't we? But it's also a privilege to have it. Yes. And to have the space and the views and the
41:40garden rooms that you suddenly walk into and the mossy paths. I mean, it's just lovely to be here.
41:46I mean, Jane has been around for as long as I can even remember. Watching her from when I was teeny
41:59tiny till now. Jane Edmondson was one of the first faces of gardening that I encountered when I emigrated
42:07to Australia in 1992. And I immediately wanted to listen to everything that she said. I think what
42:14our viewers love about Jane is her no-nonsense approach to gardening. It's just simple, straightforward,
42:19and you know you're going to get it right because, I mean, she's a safe pair of hands.
42:23I really appreciated her taking me under her wing. Jane, I hope you never get asked another question
42:31about lemons.
42:39Oh, go. Here we go. Are you going to do an Oscar piastry?
42:45Exactly. Jane, 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 100, I'd say.
42:55Wow. Yeah, so it really has become my backyard. It really is. And then this cacti garden here,
43:02that's a collection that was donated. It's wonderful. People's love continues on.
43:07Yeah, and like a life's passion. And to think that it wasn't just bulldozed.
43:13No, what on earth is happening here? Oh. Oh, you embarrass me. Oh, Costa, you sneaky person.
43:38Oh. Yeah. Now I'm crying. Oh, dear. Lovely Sophie. Oh, good to see you. Hello, darling.
43:53Oh, hello, little one. You've got to get down the peak. Oh, my goodness.
44:02How old is your cake? Hey, the young girl. Who's this?
44:05Oh, such a shock. That's lovely to see you all. Really lovely. Oh, my goodness.
44:13Jane, you have been a lighthouse shining bright
44:21for over 38 years as part of our Gardening Australia family. You've been a gardening presenter
44:29for close to four decades. Shh. Don't tell anyone. Stop harping on us.
44:34All right, all right, all right. We knew that you didn't want any fuss.
44:38Oh, yeah. That went a long way, didn't it?
44:41So it did. But we just want to say how much...
44:46What? How much what?
44:56We want to say how much your ethos is part of the very fabric of this show. So
45:04even though you're moving on to more, more things in gardening,
45:13your storytelling, your passion for what we love
45:18is embedded in the very DNA of Gardening Australia forever. And on behalf of all of us,
45:25we want to say we love you. You're with us forever. And we wish you well in all the new chapters ahead.
45:32Thank you. Thank you. We want to have a look at some wonderful memories.
45:52Ah, made it. But it's really startling because I was on the very first show all those years ago,
46:00and it makes me feel ancient. Hello there. I'm Jane Edmondson with Victoria's part of Garden Australia.
46:12I was hoping to have a lovely relaxing time on this beautiful green grassy spot.
46:16It's part of the Ornamental Plant Collections Association, run by volunteers, and they've got
46:21a massive amount of things to look at. Many of the salvias have got grey leaves.
46:26I don't like looking at myself on the telly. It's weird, isn't it? I sometimes go,
46:31oh, what am I doing now, you know? They really are a very special bloom, very different than the
46:36bedding begonias that are so popular. If you're considering coming to Ballarat, think about coming
46:41next March. It has been a real honour to show gardens that are so lovely, and all the gardens are so
46:49generous in their time and their spirit, you know. They're gardeners, and they just love it, and that's
46:55been really a pleasure to be able to show some of their creative work. This is a wonderland,
47:02absolutely amazing. How many plants have you got here? Could be around 10,000 approximately, yeah.
47:09This is Wayne's World. It's fantastic. How many orchids have you got here? Oh, it must be nearly
47:13quarter of a million now. How lucky are you, eh? It's wonderful. What goes into designing a garden
47:20that makes you feel something? Oh, yes, please. Oh, great. Let's go. This is a treat. Isn't it gorgeous?
47:28It really is the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness. Wait until you see what is on the other side of this house.
47:34Wow. I'm going to be cheeky and ask if I can have a little cutting of it. I'll get you some seed.
47:46Would you? Oh, most exciting. Well, this grows well, and I love that. That's that tree marigold.
47:53Take it as lemon. Yeah, beautiful. Isn't it gorgeous? Ooh. Lovely colour. Isn't that a bright, vibrant thing?
47:58And then this one. What is this? I have spotted something here that looks absolutely phenomenal.
48:05And that's beautiful. I love this little space. Oh, 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. You sure can.
48:16It's an honour to come into people's gardens, but I really have liked the way that Gardening
48:22Australia has combined the inspirational and the practical. But how do you attract more bees into your
48:30garden? How do you go about killing slugs and snails organically? We talk simple common sense,
48:36not gobbledygooky. Now, there's a real myth about growing them in hothouses. Is that true or what?
48:42And out near the hills hoist, why not dry your handkerchiefs or your tea towels on them?
48:46It makes them still nice. And this one dappledawn makes a really nice thick hedge. It stops the kids
48:52and dogs walking on the garden bed and cattle too from straying into your garden. This one here is a
48:58schlumbergera. Isn't that a wonderful name? It used to be called the zygo cactus, but it's got a new name,
49:03schlumbergera, and if you can remember that, you're doing well. Have a look at this bountiful supply of
49:07miniature tomatoes. It's called the jade tree. It's often called the lucky plant, because if you grow
49:13it by your front door in a pot, it may well bring you luck. Or you can just let them rot on the garden
49:18bed. They really are nature's carpet. Here they are, the patio and miniature roses, perfect for growing
49:25in a pot on a veranda, a patio, or even a pocket handkerchief courtyard garden. Gardening's good for
49:32you, you know, good physically, mentally, all that type of thing. I think we sit too much and watch our
49:37iPads and all that sort of stuff and get out, put them down and go out into the garden.
49:44But I'm going to show you right now how simple it is to lay this stuff.
49:51Have a look at that. Whoa! That is really, oh, juicy. Nearly good enough to put on your muesli.
49:59Ooh! Caught me! How are you going? I'll buy you one. I'll get you one.
50:06Wow! Wow! Good to see you! Do you want to share my ice cream? No.
50:12Very juicy. It is. It's got a sort of slightly limey flavour. One of the most common questions that we get
50:18asked is, what is wrong with my lemon tree? Many people have a lemon tree in their backyard. What's wrong
50:24with my citrus? What's eating the skin of all my lemons? Can you put orange peel into a compost?
50:30Why does this citrus have flowers but no fruit? What the lumpy bits are that have suddenly appeared
50:36on their lemon trees? What on earth is going on? And people say, oh, it must be lovely this wandering
50:41in and sort of walking around someone's garden. Well, sometimes it is always good, but sometimes the
50:46weather is against you. You've got wind that's blowing your hair, you know, rain that no one cares about.
50:51You just do it rain, hail, or shine. It doesn't matter. When do you prune your wisteria?
50:57Here we go.
50:59Ooh!
51:01Oh!
51:04Oh, my goodness gracious, I can't move. This is like a quagmire.
51:09You're the first lady that I've been in a pond with. I haven't even been a pond with my wife.
51:14Nearly every time I film, there's something strange.
51:18Ooh! While it might be nice to wave your magic wand and say,
51:24Natus! Expelliarmus!
51:26I've recently had a very exciting time flying around Victoria in a helicopter.
51:31We dropped right onto the school ovals.
51:33Coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo-coo!
51:36So that's the Providence Petral.
51:39It was the Providence Petral.
51:41Mine 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. Making a lovely little poppy like this
52:00looked 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.
52:15Edmundson in.
52:16Landing forward.
52:17Oh, she's had a cut like that one!
52:19Oh, that's gone!
52:20That's gone!
52:21That's out of here!
52:22That's a six!
52:23I knew I should have stuck to footy.
52:27My most memorable, that's very hard because there's been a lot of them,
52:31a community garden down in Springvale.
52:33Now, Springvale is known for its Vietnamese, Asian, Serbian, Croatian, Russian, Australian,
52:40all sorts of nationalities.
52:42It was fantastic.
52:44And that was a real treat because, you know, just to get people together like that
52:47around a garden makes all the difference.
52:50We 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.
53:04Oh, shanty, shanty.
53:07It was really moving, you know.
53:09It was really nice.
53:10If 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.
53:36It really touched me.
53:38Amazing.
53:39And it's finished.
53:40Yay!
53:41Yay!
53:42Sayonara.
53:42Yay!
53:48That's brought up such a lot of memories that, you know, you just forget.
53:52It's just time's gone.
53:53Boom!
53:54Gardening Australia, you know, has been part of people's lives for so long,
53:58and 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.
54:10That was really, really good.
54:11I'm very, very pleased.
54:13But there's one other person I would like to thank,
54:15and that is Elizabeth, who has worked with me since the very beginning.
54:19Yay!
54:21I could keep on going, but it's just lovely that you were all here.
54:26Jane Edmondson.
54:30Cheers.
54:30Cheers, Jane.
54:31Thanks, guys.
54:32Cheers.
54:32Thank you very much.
54:34That's why I'm...
54:35Oh, hello.
54:36You've done it, and it's great.
54:37Yay!
54:38Yeah!
54:44Oh, sneaky.
54:45Really sneaky.
54:48Hello.
54:49Hello.
54:50Hello.
54:51Hello.
54:53Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
54:55Yeah!
54:57Hey, Trick.
54:57Go Saiters!
54:59Go Saiters!
55:00Oh, look at that.
55:01Do you recognise that?
55:02Oh, yes.
55:02Yes.
55:04Oh, that's lovely.
55:05Yeah.
55:06It's beautiful.
55:07I love cards like that.
55:08I love that.
55:09Oh, ha, ha, ha, ha.
55:10Oh, thank you, Clarence.
55:12Nice to see you.
55:13Oh, my God.
55:14I couldn't believe what I saw in the standing there.
55:19Look at this.
55:20Look at that.
55:20From the very final 11.
55:22I didn't.
55:24Like, Adam's a blue-pambered there.
55:26No, that's not good.
55:27Yeah, it's quite much soft.
55:28No, no, I'm good.
55:29Are you okay?
55:30Yep, I'm good.
55:30I'm good.
55:31I'm good.
55:31I'm good.
55:32I'm good.
55:33Okay.
55:33Well, it's so nice to see you.
55:35You cut out his wine out tomorrow.
55:38While we continue to celebrate the amazing Jane Edmondson, of course, we've got plenty brewing for next week.
55:46It's our final episode for the year, and we're pulling out all the stops.
55:50I'll see you then.
55:51Anyone for cake?
55:56I visit a garden on a steep, challenging site, using native plants to hold it all in place.
56:02And all done by a first-time gardener.
56:06I'm making a floral ice bucket, a cool centrepiece to show your favourite tipple at your next soiree.
56:12How beautiful is this?
56:14This is the butterfly house at Melbourne Zoo.
56:16Today, I'm going to learn from the experts how we can all entice more of these absolute beauties
56:22into our gardens.
56:24And I'm hanging out in a flourishing market garden that's growing traditional produce
56:30for a surprising variety of communities in south-western Sydney.
56:36Well, this is it.
56:37The last goodbye.
56:38I've enjoyed every moment with you.
56:40Happy gardening.
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