Saturday 15th April, 2017

We spent a very pleasant day at the Botanical Gardens in Mildura. We had a tractor ride around the gardens with an excellent commentary by a very knowledgeable guide and driver.

In these gardens there is a rotunda which has the most amazing ceiling. Apparently a local lady had been collecting seed pods for many years, and had some 4,000 of them. She offered to make the ceiling of the rotunda from these seed pods and it is just stunning. She glued each pod with liquid nails onto a triangle cut-out for each section of the roof.

It would have been a labour of love and I can't imagine how long it look. I have never seen anything like it.

The gardens are very fortunate to have a lot of volunteers with varying skills, so the building of the rotunda and the roof was all achieved by them.

We enjoyed a local art show of photography and paintings, and had lunch in a café at the park, also run by volunteers. And it was a hoot - the ladies kept getting mixed up with what we wanted, how much it would cost, etc, etc.

I think they had had a very busy day, but handled it all well, with a few giggles along the way.