St Kilda Botanical Gardens

This guide to St Kilda Botanical Gardens in Melbourne centres on Alister Clark, a wealthy grazier's son who spent decades breeding roses at his family estate and then refused to sell a single one. You'll hear how he gave his flowers away to charities and garden clubs instead, and how a site that started as a gravel pit and rubbish tip was set aside for a public garden back in 1859. The guide follows the garden's transformation into a memorial planted in Clark's honour, its beds rebuilt once since the original planting wore out.