"A long view" video by Ernie Althoff and John Campbell

 

"A long view" - video by Ernie Althoff and John Campbell

Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens, founded in 1846, displays almost 50,000 individual plants, representing 8,500 different species. It also contains the State Botanical Collection, housed in the National Herbarium of Victoria. The collection has 1.5 million preserved plants, algae and fungi, and also includes Australia's most comprehensive botanical library. Visitors to the Gardens exceed 2 million per year. rbg.vic.gov.au Just by chance, this video is being released on Botanic Gardens Day (Australia and New Zealand). https://www.https://www.bganz.org.au/botanic-gardens-day-2020-2/ You may like to hear 'Sonica Botanica: Stories and Sounds from the Gardens', by Patrick Cronin. https://www.https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/melbourne-gardens/sonica-botanica/

Link: https://youtu.be/-4bJWv-GXtY