The joys of science

Could this be Australia’s slowest growing garden (take my word for it, it IS a garden)? If you look with the eye of faith, you can identify, clinging to these slabs of sandstone rescued from demolished colonial buildings, a variety of cructose lichens planted there by the Mt Annan PlantBank researchers. Considering lichens grow at the rate of about a centimetre every ten years, it’s going to be a long wait for coverage.

February 2020