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Talking with astro-inspired artist Pamela Bain about her newly formed cosmic nebulas.
Pamela Bain’s exploration of deep space phenomena is captured via photographic and digital processes that integrate with experimental methods of painting and paper sculpting.  Her artforms currently investigate the potential to convey metaphor as well as deep space anatomy underpinning the materiality of cosmic nebulae.
Art: https://fb.me/pamartology 
https://www.instagram.com/pamartology
https://www.pamelabain.com/  
 
Also spotlighting the symposium ANAT SPECTRA where Pam, and sound designer Jeff Hannam, will be sharing the innerworkings of their project CELESTIAL RESONANCE.
ANAT SPECTRA  -  MULTIPLICITY    
A multi-platform event, over six episodes. SPECTRAlive includes a symposium event hosted by the Science Gallery Melbourne asking artists, technologists, and scientists to imagine, experiment, and produce in ways which create fair, just and sustainable futures. Exhibition, film programs, talks, and discussions share and celebrate research, creative propositions, and artforms across multiple venues throughout Melbourne from April 21st – 23rd
Tickets to Spectralive – the onsite live event  https://spectra.org.au/spectralive/#day-1     
Tickets to Spectravision – the online event of 5 episodes running until May 6th  https://spectra.org.au/spectravision/
For more information about the event and presenters, please go to https://www.artshub.com.au/event/anat-spectra-2022-multiplicity-2538680/
 
The podcast artwork in this episode is DIAMOND NURSERY

Join us for the The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney podcast part five 
Catch up on each episode 
Part one of our tour of The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney 
https://eattmag.com/join-us-in-part-one-of-our-tour-of-the-royal-botanic-garden-sydney/?highlight=botanic%20gardens
Part two of our tour of The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney
https://eattmag.com/part-two-of-the-sydney-royal-botanic-gardens-podcast/?highlight=botanic%20gardens
Part three of our tour of The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
https://eattmag.com/sydney-royal-botanic-gardens-podcast-part-3/?highlight=botanic%20gardens 
Part four of our tour of The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
https://eattmag.com/australias-oldest-community-garden-part-4/

 
What's on The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
 
A Flash of Red




Visit The Calyx from Monday 25 April to see 'A Flash of Red ' Presented by artist Jean Dennis
 
Inside the Tide UNTIL 31 JULY 2022

Explore a marine dream of coral, kelp, and coast with Inside the Tide!





Step inside this spectacular world of aquatic delights in our new immersive exhibition.
 
7 MAY - 22 MAY 2022


Botanic Endeavour: The Florilegium Society celebrates the Banks and Solander Collections https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/
 




 

Welcome back to party 4 of our botanical podcast here in Australia's oldest community garden. Where we discover the story of the lost New Zealand Kauri tree and look at the role of the new horticultural display centre and find out who was at botany bay with Captain James Cook in 1770

Branching out into the gardens with Paul we continue our conversation from part 1

https://eattmag.com/join-us-in-part-one-of-our-tour-of-the-royal-botanic-garden-sydney/ 
Where we began our tour standing on the original footprint of the 1816 Botanic gardens a small section of what was known as the Governor’s domain to start this botanic garden. 
From there in part 2 https://eattmag.com/part-two-of-the-sydney-royal-botanic-gardens-podcast/
We hear how recently, archaeologists discovered a grinding stone from a place called Cuddie Springs, and that grinding stone had starch grains from kangaroo grass that was 32,000 years old.
How Vines introduced into the Colony of New South Wales.

Now in the Sydney Royal Botanic Gardens Podcast Part 3 we learn of how Vines introduced into the Colony of New South Wales by James Busby Esq.
After a most delicious European tour in 1832 sent back on the Lady Harewood in 1832, an extensive collection of over 500 vine cuttings selected from the different vineyards of France.
 
The experimental garden 
Charles Fraser and another early botanist, Alan Cunningham brought back seed and even seedlings of these trees and planted them in the experimental garden among others between 1824 and 1828. Looking to see how these trees would perform and how they could be used as timber trees. 
 
Cedar 
Red Cedar grew well and become one of the most valuable commodities coming out of the Australian colonies. 
So well in fact Red Cedar can be found in many old town halls or in old buildings, both here but also in places like Manchester and London, and also in places in India.
 
Into the Palm house
 
Charles Moore whom was born in 1820, in Dundee Scotland. 
Had arrived in Sydney on 14 January 1848 and took up the position of Director of the Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney, a position he held until 5 May 1896.
Where he had decided to start planting the palms out in the old experimental gardening 1862, and where we still have some of those original plantings. 
 
Fern mania, had also started at a similar time among the Victorians as a kind of obsession like that of the great fondness for palms as well. 
Find out more about Ferns at the Plant species in the woodland page on the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney website 
https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Science/Our-work-discoveries/Natural-Areas-Management/Ecology-of-Cumberland-Plain-Woodland/Plant-species-in-the-woodland/Vascular-plants/Ferns
 
And discover the work that goes into maintaining the Gardens and learn from horticulture staff, taking direction from the team.
Upcoming events include visits to the Australian Botanic Garden Mt Annan
and Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mt Tomah
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During the second part of our tour we learn how Aboriginal people had been managing the landscape for more than 40,000 years.
Paul hunts out one of the many grasses at the botanic gardens known as the kangaroo grass. 

One of the many birds having breakfast during our tour.
He explains enthusiastically that, kangaroo grass has a seed and that seed's been traditionally used and ground up to make a flour to make bread. 

And now, recently, archaeologists discovered a grinding stone from a place called Cuddie Springs, and that grinding stone had starch grains from kangaroo grass that was 32,000 years old, which makes Aboriginal people the oldest continuous bread making culture on the planet by 15,000 years.
As we walk through the garden we find ourselves surrounded by plants brought out by the first fleet, and we have tobacco and mulberries and citrus and then directly opposite is that kangaroo grass just coming into seed at the moment. 
We quickly learn that when first fleet arrived it was during an El Nino year.  

El Niño is a climate cycle in the Pacific Ocean with a global impact on various weather patterns. 
The cycle begins when warm water in the western tropical Pacific Ocean shifts and moves eastward along the equator towards the coast of South America. 
 
Normally, this warm water pools near Indonesia and the Philippines.
This can lead to Reduced rainfall.
The shift in rainfall away from the western Pacific, associated with El Niño, means that Australian rainfall is usually reduced through winter–spring, particularly across the eastern and northern parts of the continent. Nine of the ten driest winter–spring periods on record for eastern Australia occurred during El Niño years.
Learn more about what is El Niño and what might it mean for Australia?
http://www.bom.gov.au/climate/updates/articles/a008-el-nino-and-australia.shtml 
 
So, when the first fleet arrived it was a very dry period of time.
And also the soils here are very ancient and very low in nutrients, and the land proved difficult to clear. 
They ended up sowing crops between fallen trees and stumps. Due to  the low soil nutrition and because of the lack of water, the crop really failed, and they harvested less than they sowed.
And after these various experiments they found better land on the Hawkesbury River, the Parramatta river and the Hunter river, that agriculture really took off on the continent.
Many Scottish people also really built this garden between 1816 and the beginning of the 20th century.

So in this case though, this is a man whose name was Joseph Gerald and Joseph. 
Gerald was transported as a convict, and he was convicted essentially of political crimes. He was campaigning for more democratic freedoms for the people of Scotland.
And not coincidentally, the first superintendent of these gardens, the first colonial botanist was also a Scott.
Upcoming events: : 
Learn about the diverse history and culture of the Aboriginal people of the Sydney region with an Aboriginal guide in the heart of the city. Uncover the Royal Botanic Garden's rich Aboriginal heritage by exploring plant uses, culture, artefacts and tasting some bush foods.
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We begin our tour standing on the original footprint of the 1816 Botanic gardens.
Where in 1816 Governor Macquarie and his wife carved out a small section of what was known as the Governor's domain to start this botanic garden. 

Among the chorus of sulphur-crested cockatoo (Cacatua galerita) is a relatively large white cockatoo found in wooded habitats in Australia, Paul continues, our walk down the garden path below the parrots while looking out for a Rainbow Lorikeet.

Rainbow Lorikeets are Australia's fruity coloured birds. Brightly coloured blue, orange, yellow and green.
Our second stop is look back in time. And in this garden, what we're trying to do is really tell that early historical story through plants.
So, we're surrounded by grass trees, these remarkable Australian plants with long linear leaves and tall flower spikes covered in small creamy white flowers.A significant plant to the Gadigal people.

'Gal' means people, so the Gadigal literally means the people of Cadi. 
The name Cadi comes from the grass tree species Xanthorrhoea, a native plant that local Aboriginal communities would make sections of spear shaft from the stems and glue together with the resin. 
https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/visit/things-to-see-do/aboriginal-experiences
Across the path, we can also see some bananas, coffee, and there's tea. And they were the plants brought out by the first fleet. 
The kind of plants brought out by the first fleet were planted on this site around July 1788.

But where we're standing now, we're surrounded by the types of plants that grew here before European settlement.these are species of plants that we know grew here,  thanks to our ecological department that map the traditional Flora of Australia.
Learn more about the Royal Botanic Gardens In Sydney and stay tuned for our next episode. https://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/Support
Our tour guide is Paul Nicholson a Senior Horticulturist 
Upcoming events: 
The 2020 Garden Design Series, brought to you by Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens will be at the Tattersalls Club Hyde Park in Sydney’s CBD.
 
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