This week on the Horti-Culturalists we visit a wonderfully romantic garden in Mount Macedon to look at a new multi-purpose structure built to harmonize with the 19th century existing house. An enclosure both beautiful AND practical housing fruit trees, a rose garden, herb beds, vegetables AND a chicken house! We also look at medlar and quince trees and discover an infestation of pear & cherry slug - which actually isn’t a slug at all but the larvae of a Sawfly!
The plants mentioned in this episode are:
Medlar: Mespilus germanica, now know as Crataegus mespilus
Quince: Cydonia oblonga
0:00 introduction
2:52 growing roses enclosed
4:40 the medlar tree
6:12 Mespilis germanica, the medlar tree
6:20 Crataegus mespilus, the new medlar name!
7:01 Cydonia oblonga, fruiting quince
7:06 Pear & cherry slug infestation
8:28 treatment for pear & cherry slug infestation

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