Melbourne University garden tour: ten amazing trees & plants!

This week on The Horti-Culturalists, part three of our four part series looking at the wonderful grounds and gardens of the University of Melbourne. This week we're going to take a look at ten interesting trees and plants that struck our fancy as we wandered around the incredible environment that the buildings of the university are situated in. Some rare, some you wouldn't think stood a hope in hell of surviving in Melbourne and others that are just plain spectacular! The university is open to the public so do take a look if you are in Melbourne and many thanks to The University of Melbourne and to head gardener Virginia McNally for taking the time to explain the garden to us. The plants we cover in this video are:
Ficus dammaropsis
Brachychiton acerifolius - the Illawarra Flame Tree
Rhododendron viriosum
Eucalyptus deglupta - the Rainbow Gum
Dioscorea elephantipes
Brachychiton rupestris - the Queensland Bottle Tree
Dendrobium speciosum
Ginkgo biloba
Cussonia spicata - the Cabbage Tree
Castanospermum australe - the Black Bean tree - the Moreton Bay Chestnut
We have a playlist with all the videos from this University of Melbourne tour which you can see here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxtRBwKf75CU3hWuf1HaDPJnXgd8dwd8X
0:00 introduction to The University of Melbourne gardens
1:15 Ficus dammaropsis
2:51 Brachychiton acerifolius - Illawarra Flame Tree
4:11 Rhododendron viriosum
5:14 Eucalyptus deglupta - the Rainbow Gum
8:27 Dioscorea elephantipes
10:59 Brachychiton rupestris - the Queensland Bottle Tree
12:15 Dendrobium speciosum
13:27 espaliered Ginkgo biloba
15:20 Cussonia spicata - the Cabbage Tree
18:07 Castanospermum australe - the Black Bean tree - the Moreton Bay Chestnut

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