CONTENTS

Editorial insights

2 Rebecca Harcourt, Managing Editor

Feature interview

4 Nathan Emery: fighting the extinction battle seed‑by‑seed

Feature garden

13 Saving threatened species at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan – one ecological community at a time

Dr Peter Cuneo, Honorary Research Associate, Australian PlantBank, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan and David Khoury, Supervisor Natural Areas & Open Spaces, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan

Feature articles

18 From the nursery to the field: horticulture informs translocation of Small Purple Pea Swainsona recta

Zoe Knapp, Peter Bredell, Emma Cook (ACT Government), Bek Hyland and Tom North, Australian National Botanic Gardens

23 Joining forces: aligning ex situ and in situ threatened plant conservation programs to support regional priorities

Emma Simpkins, Senior Regional Advisor Flora at Auckland Council and Ella Rawcliffe, Botanical Records and Conservation Specialist at Auckland Botanic Gardens

Pollinating great ideas

27 Perennial management and garden design

Meg Awatea Spittal, Horticultural Apprentice, Auckland Botanic Gardens, Aotearoa New Zealand

30 Hidden assets

Lorraine Perrins, former staff member and current volunteer, Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens

Notes from the nursery

33 The role of botanic gardens in fighting the extinction battle

Matthew Nicholson, volunteer editor, Notes from the Nursery

Specialist groups

38 News from BCARM, the BGANZ Collection and Record Management group

Sheree Parker, BCARM Chair and Supervisor, Geelong Botanic Gardens

40 We speak for the trees. The role of arborists in botanic gardens and the value of our trees

Ian Allan, Chair BARB and Supervisor Natural Areas & Arboriculture, Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, Mount Tomah

What’s new?

43 Botanic news: from home and abroad

Cassandra Nichols, CEO, BGANZ Ltd

The theme of the next edition of The BOTANIC GARDENer is Botanic gardens – people and plants for a sustainable future. The deadline for contributions is 1 April 2025. Please contact the Managing Editor (managing.editor@bganz.org.au) if you are intending to submit an article or have a contribution to other sections.