Where propagating can take you

摘要

The gardens have two sites one in Melbourne and one in Cranbourne. The Melbourne site sits on 38 Ha and is 171 years old, it also contains the National Herbarium of Victoria. The gardens have 1.6 million visitors a year and this is expected to doubleby 2070. The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria has over 50,000 plants in their collection representing over 8,000 taxa. The gardens have 30 living collections including; Southern Africa,' Southern China and Californian collection. The Cranbourne site is 363Ha and was built in 1970. The Australian Garden takes up 10 Ha and the remaining 353 Ha is remnant bush land.The nursery produces approximately 50% natives and 50% exotics by various methods including; cuttings, seed, grafting, layering, spore and tissue culture.Plants are grown to order for horticulturists, botanists, research students, Government Department of Environment, Regional Botanic Gardens and local government.The garden has contracts to grow rare and threatened species for reintroduction to the wild as well as for seed orcharding for the Victorian Conservation Seedbank.