Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria - Melbourne Gardens

This guide to the Royal Botanic Gardens in Melbourne opens in April 1873, when the director Ferdinand von Mueller named a new plant genus, Guilfoylia, after a young gardener named William Guilfoyle, only to lose his own job to that same man three months later. It follows the feud that followed, as Mueller accused his successor of scientific ignorance and questioned how he landed the post. Listen for how the two men's very different ideas about these gardens still shape the paths around you.