Australia's Native Terrestrial Orchids

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🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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There's a type of orchid you may have never heard of - terrestrial orchids. They're one of Marion's absolute favorite plants to spot in the wild - learn all about them in today's show. Connect With Marion Whitehead: Marion Whitehead is the Supervisor of Ornamental Gardens at the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden in Mount Tomah, Australia. She has an extensive background in cool climate plant species, with a specific interest in ephemeral and heathland plants. Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Shop the Store As an exclusive for listeners, use code EPICPODCAST for 5% off your entire first order on our store, featuring our flagship Birdies Raised Beds. These are the original metal raised beds, lasting up to 5-10x longer than wooden beds, are ethically made in Australia, and have a customizable modular design. Shop now and get 5% off your first order. Get Our Books Looking for a beginner's guide to growing food in small spaces? Kevin’s book, Field Guide to Urban Gardening, explains the core, essential information that you'll need to grow plants, no matter where you live! He also wrote Grow Bag Gardening to provide you with specialized knowledge that can bring you success when growing in fabric pots. Order signed copies of Kevin’s books, plus more of his favorite titles in our store. More Resources Looking for more information? Follow us: Our Blog YouTube (Including our Epic Homesteading and Jacques in the Garden channels) Instagram (Including Epic Homesteading, Jacques, and Chris) TikTok Facebook Facebook Group Discord Server Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Here is a category of plants that, first of all, I haven't really grown much of at all
0:18.5	and certainly have grown none of the ones we're about to talk about in today's episode
0:23.3	here.
0:24.3	We have Marion Whitehead back on the show.
0:25.9	She's the supervisor of ornamental gardens at the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden in
0:30.2	Mount Toma, Australia, and so she's got a great background in cool climate plant species
0:35.4	and all sorts of different things, including Australia's native terrestrial orchids.
0:40.8	Marion, my only real experience here is just growing, I guess, what you'd call the commercialized
0:46.5	standard orchid.
0:47.8	I haven't done too much in this world and so maybe a little background on these would
0:51.9	be great.
0:53.2	Well, native terrestrial orchids, these are also one I haven't grown a lot of myself,
1:00.2	but they do grow wild all over our site here at the Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens and
1:06.2	as we're one of the only Botanic gardens in the world that sits within a world heritage
1:11.5	wilderness, the gardens part of our Botanic Gardens actually is about 200 hectares of wild
1:19.6	bushland that we look after that the public don't enter and we keep it pristine and it's
1:24.9	full of these native terrestrial orchids.
1:29.1	I'm also in my spare time a trail runner and on in like the native terrestrial orchid sort
1:36.9	of flowering season, which is often winter for some of my favorite ones, I become an incredibly
1:42.0	slow runner because I'm looking for these little guys in the bush.
1:47.3	I've had a go at growing some of the easier to grow ones and they're a bit finicky, but
1:54.0	they're an absolutely phenomenal plant.
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