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Girgarre <strong>Gazette</strong> <strong>September</strong> <strong>2019</strong> Page 3<br />
GARGARRO GARDENS - working bees last Saturday of every month<br />
From front cover -<br />
Representatives of TCL, (Landscape Architects), the Gargarro Gardens Project, the Cranbourne branch of the Royal Botanic<br />
Gardens and an expert Horticulturist met on site at the Gardens on a beautiful morning, Friday 30 th August for a Design<br />
Development Meeting. Following a walk around and a look at the progress the local group have made over recent months,<br />
the group adjourned to the McDonald residence for a working meeting to design and plan the next stage of the project.<br />
Photo—L-R<br />
Clare Wood – Regional Development Victoria<br />
Nuon Lu – Landscape Architect TCL<br />
Doc McDonald - Chair of Gargarro Botanic Gardens Ltd.<br />
Lucas Dean- TCL (Taylor Cullity and Lethlean Associates)<br />
Paul Thompson – Horticulturist<br />
Bernie Ryan - Chair of the Friends of the Gardens (Gargarro Gardens Project)<br />
Jill Burness – Landscape Architect, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (Cranbourne Gardens)<br />
Red Letter Day For Gargarro<br />
The visitors were here to discuss the next stage of the Gargarro Botanic Garden design. Lucas Dean and Nuonan Lu from T.C.L.<br />
were accompanied by Paul Thompson. Paul is recognised as one Australia’s leading experts on native plants and worked with<br />
TCL on the design of the Australian Garden at Cranbourne. He is responsible for the species selection for Gargarro.<br />
Also travelling from Melbourne was Jill Burness, who is a Landscape Planner at the Cranbourne Gardens. It was Jill’s first visit<br />
to Girgarre, but a welcome one. When the idea of a Botanic Garden first germinated in the Girgarre community in 2012 the<br />
Cranbourne Garden was contacted for advice. Jill was nominated as the contact person, and after receiving encouragement<br />
from her, the Gargarro steering committee spent a day wandering around the Australian Garden in her company. Jill is providing<br />
technical and practical advice to the Girgarre community during the design process. Regional Development Victoria has<br />
provided funding for the design work, Clare Wood from the Bendigo office in the process, attended and joined in the discussion.<br />
Gargarro board members Jan Smith and Doc McDonald, as well as Bernie Ryan from the Friends of Gargarro provided<br />
the local input.<br />
T.C.L. is working on the detailed design of the northern part of the garden, which includes an open park like area around the<br />
Soundshell and the first of the sensory gardens, the See Garden. The design will be completed in the coming weeks and released<br />
to the public later in the year. The Melbourne visitors were full of praise for what had already been achieved by the<br />
Girgarre community and the bold vision that they had for the future. A C McDonald
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