Growing a community.

Meet the faces of the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Growing Friends’ who are helping plant collectors, enthusiasts and green thumbs to transform their backyards one plant at a time and transforming lives, and the environment, in the process.

Joyce Cameron getting some Vireyas (Rhodondendrons) ready for sale. Joyce is smiling at the camera, wearing a blue jumper and holding small seedlings in black points on a red tray.
Three signs tucked into the garden point to a gate in a fence. The signs say plant sale and Growing Friends' nursery with a directional arrow.
A handwritten note on a chalkboard sign shows the way to the Growing Friends nursery. It is written in coloured chalk with a smiley face and arrows.
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Connecting with nature.

Meet the friends

“Every plant has different needs and each plant has a little bit of me in it. I send it off to the world and hope that I have given it every chance to succeed.” - Jasmine Yan, Volunteer