Melbourne University garden tour: the System Garden

This week on The Horti-Culturalists, the last of our four part series looking at the wonderful grounds and gardens of the University of Melbourne. This week we're going to take a look at the System Garden and meet head gardener Virginia McNally who'll explain JUST what a system garden is and what it's used for! The university grounds are open to the public so do take a look if you are in Melbourne and the System Garden is open during the week only. Many thanks to The University of Melbourne and to head gardener Virginia McNally for taking the time to explain the garden to us. The plants and plan groups we cover in this video are:
Cycads
Cephalotaxus - Japanese Plum Yew
Taxodium distichum
Agathis moorei
Phyllocladus aspleniifolius - celery pine
Dyckia rariflora
Puya mirabilis
You can watch our other videos featuring the grounds of the University of Melbourne here:    • UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE GARDEN TOUR  
0:00 introduction to the System Garden
1:30 interview with Head Gardener Virginia McNally
9:47 moss, lichen & ferns
10:16 Cycads
13:06 Cephalotaxus - Japanese Plum Yew
13:58 Taxodium distichum
15:50 Agathis moorei - Kauri pine
17:40 Phyllocladus aspleniifolius - celery pine
19:45 Angiosperms
21:11 Dyckia rariflora
21:43 Puya mirabilis
22:09 Bee & insect hotel
23:17 Asteraceae - the daisies