Editorial Committee HELEN VAUGHAN Managing Editor DALE ARVIDSSON Curator, Brisbane Botanic Gardens ALAN MATCHETT Team Leader/Curator, Dunedin Botanic Garden TOM McCARTER Wildlife Garden Manager, The Natural History Museum, London JANET O’HEHIR Vice-President, Camperdown Botanic Gardens and Arboretum Trust Inc. EAMONN FLANAGAN Chief Executive Officer, BGANZ SIOBHAN DUFFY Graphic Designer
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COVER: Wellington Botanic Garden, Founders gate entrance – Innovation Garden (scroll) has Impatiens walleriana. Photo: Clare Shearman
CONTENTS 2 President’s view Chris Russell, BGANZ President
5 Editorial insights Helen Vaughan, Managing Editor
7 9th BGANZ Congress – Wellington, New Zealand Janet O’Hehir, Camperdown Botanic Gardens and Arboretum
Feature Interview 10 Outstanding in the field Tom McCarter, Wildlife Garden Manager, Natural History Museum, London
What’s New 15 Botanic news: from home and abroad
Pollinating great ideas 21 Plants for a passion, in pursuit of a dream Sharyn Veivers, Horticulture Assistant, Orange Botanical Gardens
24 The Amazing Case of Dr Ward – music and storytelling in the Williamstown Botanic Gardens Jackie Kerin, Author and Storyteller, Loraine Callow, Program Development Officer, Williamstown Botanic Gardens
28 Pocket-sized brochures for visitor convenience Clare Fraser, Adult Education, Dunedin Botanic Garden
The hort. section 30 Regional botanical gardens can join the conservation conversation, too Donna Thomas, Gardens Collections Officer, Ballarat Botanical Gardens
36 Caring for Melbourne Gardens’ grand old trees Eleni Vassiliadis, Digital Assistant, Development, Marketing and Communications, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria THE BOTANIC GARDENer | ISS 53 SUMMER 2019/20