Cameron Tasker

Horticulture Ranger Team Leader ,trained by @TheBotanics, Event First Responder and trainer 🚑, all views my own, Scottish 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 in Melbourne 🇦🇺

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Just a few plants that have been propagated in the last few months. These will grow on in the nursery before planting out in the park later this year.

Dicondra repens
Correa reflexa
Goodenia ovata

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New Year’s Day festival at work, always love working the evening shift. The music, lights and the atmosphere, you can really see why events return to the Park each year

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Lots of new foliage in the glasshouse at Werribee Park @ParksVictoria, amazing what a bit of sun and heat does for the plants 🪴

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Now that we have had some warmer weather the first flush of rose flowers have burst into bloom @ParksVictoria Victoria State Rose Garden, Werribee Park

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Dicksonia tree ferns putting on their spring flush of new fronds

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Nestled in amongst the ferns, Corrigan Suspension Bridge hangs over the fern gully below

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@ryangnels Thanks Ryan it’s my happy place 🌴🌿🌱🪴

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With this weeks stormy and wet conditions it was a great opportunity to get the glasshouse cleaned up and ready for summer. This included planting out several plants which were about to break out of there pots being planted in garden beds.

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@Andyfern13 Ah yes, sad to see the tree ferns leaving the glasshouse

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Moses and bryophytes living on Dicksonia antartica trunks and rocks around the Erskine Falls

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Drosera species which is a type of carnivorous plant growing in the regional bushland surrounding Melbourne

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Rhododendrons starting to bloom @ParksVictoria Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden

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Lots of interesting fungi growing out in Australia bush

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@gardeninchemist It has quite the plant collection and it’s very peaceful

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The silverbeet harvest at Werribee park continues, only a few more harvest to go before removal. The partere will then be allowed a couple of weeks of rest before the summer floral display will be planted

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Love this hidden gem just outside Melbourne. Open to the public with an extensive collection of plants 🪴

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Wildflower hunting in rural Victoria with Horticulturalists and Botanists from @ParksVictoria @mobotgarden and Argentina. Great way to strengthen connections and network after the 7th Global Botanic Garden Congress @bgci @BGANZ1

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@ryangnels I was so surprised to see them, the horticulturalists amongst us were in awe. I’m glad the visitors from Missouri and Argentina got to see them

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Amazing to see these native orchids in rural Victoria Caladenia major, Diuris pardina and Caladenia carnea

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@ryangnels Must have just missed you, I passed through Daylesford with some guests today

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@ryangnels @ParksVictoria @bgci @BGANZ1 Thanks Ryan

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The horticulture ranger team from @ParksVictoria Werribee Park had a great time attending the 7th Global Botnaic Garden Congress @bgci @BGANZ1 lots of networking opppertunities and attending inspiring presentations. Looking forward to 2024 in Singapore.