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What glorious winter flowering plant is this?? Well join us Friday 13th for all the magical mystical details!!
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Spring has finally sprung here in Australia but join us this Friday for a look at a fabulous winter flowering shrub....Edgeworthia! This is one of the MANY plants along Stephen's nursery drive which is so diverse we made a video about it; you can it see here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kevk_... So join us Friday for a closer look at this joyous winter flowering shrub!
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Well this week on The Horti-Culturalists we're braving the FREEZING Mt Macedon winter to look at group of wonderful winter flowering plants - the Hamamelis or Witch Hazels! Stephen has a magnificent specimen in his nursery garden and we have a few other cultivars in bloom to look at. So join us Friday for some winter colour!
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It's still VERY wintery here in Melbourne so join us this Friday as we go in search of some miniature colour! Yes...we'll be looking at miniature species and hybrid Narcissus, we'll talk about how to grow them in the garden and in pot culture and find out JUST why Stephen prefers them! See you Friday!
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In deepest mid-winter there are always some stunning Australian native plants in bloom so join us this Friday for a visit to the Maranoa Botanic Gardens where we dodge the rain and take in the fabulous blooms...see you Friday!
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If you love Aloes....then Friday's video is for you! We're visiting the most incredible private collection in a glorious dry climate garden to the south west of Melbourne and meeting with specialist grower Sue Davis. It is a breathtaking collection and a really beautifully designed garden so join us Friday to see all! And if you want to do some homework before Friday yo can watch the video we made in Sue's garden about her Agave collection here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBnn_...
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This week on The Horti-Culturalists quite an EPIC video we've been making over the last year: Stephen's drive! Now it might not sound that exciting but this is the entrance to Stephen's nursery that everyone walks down so it has to perform. It's about the width of an average suburban driveway and there is ALWAYS something of interest to look at throughout the year! So join us on Friday for a year's worth of visits to Stephen's drive to see it in each of it's seasonal incarnations!
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What magical isle is THIS?? Join us Friday to find out as Stephen takes us on another tour of a remote Atlantic outpost full of wonderful endemic plants - some charming feral ones! - and endless waterfalls! See you Friday!
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This week we were fortunate enough to visit a sensational dry climate garden to the south west of Melbourne and amongst other things look at the sensational collection of Agaves there! So join us Friday for an Agave spectacular!
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Just WHAT are we up to in Stephen's poly tunnel??? Other than it being deliciously warm on a VERY wintery day...we are actually going to be doing some Serpentine layering. This is a technique that is ideal for climbers that are difficult to propagate in any other way and Stephen uses this method on his Lapageria collection particularly. So join us Friday to learn everything you ever wanted to know about serpentine layering!
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The Horti-Culturalists is a channel dedicated to growing unusual and rare plants, trees and shrubs in an outdoor garden setting, visits to interesting rare and unusual plant gardens and 'how to' lessons on various gardening techniques that are a little more advanced!
Stephen Ryan is a horticulturalist, owner of Dicksonia Rare Plants nursery , a garden consultant and former host of the TV program Gardening Australia. Matthew Lucas is an amateur who knows nothing but tries to keep up!
Together they create videos based in Stephen's Macedon garden in Victoria, Australia, where the climate is cool Mediterranean: cold wet winters and warm/hot dry summers occasional light frosts and wild parrots! They also visit other interesting gardens and specialist growers.
Videos are posted once a week and please leave a question or tell the Horti-Culturalists what you might want them to cover!