ARS Victoria Newsletter – August 2022

• Date: 18th August 2022
• author: Andrew Rouse

7th GLOBAL BOTANIC GARDENS CONGRESS

The Australian Tropical Herbarium, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne, Australian Rhododendron Society and other partners will give a presentation on the Tropical Mountain Plant Science Project at the 7th Global Botanic Gardens Congress which is being held in Melbourne 25-29 September this year. I will present on behalf of the Australian Rhododendron Society and will talk about the Society’s role in the establishing the project, the important reference collection of R. viriosum and R. lochiae we look after at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens, and the plans for a Cloud Forest Garden at the gardens to showcase our native rhododendrons and the other endemic plants of the tropical Queensland mountain-tops collected by the project partners.

To read about all the action for the next few months in Victoria including PLANT SALE Saturday 17th September at DRBG in Olinda and GARDENS VISIT Saturday 8th October in the Dandenong Ranges, please download the newsletter!