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U3A on Gardening Australia

On Saturday night, August 23, the ABC's Gardening Australia featured a segment about the Redlands Community Garden—part of which is maintained by the local U3A gardening group.

The Internet transcript begins as follows:

The Redlands Heritage Garden has soil that is a rich, red volcanic type. That’s how the Redlands district got its name. They tell me that you can push a dead stick in the ground and it will grow. I don’t know whether that’s true or not but the garden is full of fascinating, interesting plants.

The garden celebrates the Indigenous and European settlement of the region and is a fabulous educational resource. Larry Cooper is a centre leader at the Redlands research station.

“The garden was actually themed to celebrate a hundred years of horticulture. We have also included a bush food section to celebrate the Aboriginal contribution to horticulture; the more traditional English gardening; and then the salad bowl concept. The Redlands area was the salad bowl of Brisbane – that’s where the fruit and vegies come in,” he said.

Larry said the community gardens associations and the U3A (University of the Third Age looked after the vegetable and fruit section of the garden.

To read the whole transcript on the ABC site, please CLICK THIS LINK.