Adelaide Botanic Garden - Adelaide, Australia
The Adelaide Botanic Garden was founded in 1855 and opened in 1857. It features a glorious Victorian-garden landscape, including avenues of mature trees, particularly Araucaria and figs, and important garden buildings, i.e. Museum of Economic Botany, Palm House and Victoria House, and statuary.
You must see the International Rose Garden which takes visitors on a journey of discovery through a series of garden spaces each revealing a comprehensive collection of different types of roses used in different garden styles.
Planting commenced in August 1999, and the rose garden displays over 5,000 roses including sections devoted to Australian-bred roses, single roses, heritage roses and pillar roses. It includes a walkway highlighting roses selected for specific Australian causes (Olympic Gold, The Children’s Rose etc.) a sunken garden, a circular garden. There are so many photo opportunities.
The garden isn’t just plants either. There are amazing sculptures everywhere too. One of the most memorable combination of plants and structure is the one of a kind Palm House. This glass greenhouse is a restored Victorian glasshouse imported from Bremen in Germany in 1875. The plants (mostly palms) inside are from the Madagascan arid flora.
More Australian Gardens
The Royal Botanic Garden in Melbourne is over 90 acres of plants, paths, ponds, and pleasure. The whole time I was training in Melbourne, I was wishing I had a walk to work like so many Aussies have every day when they walk through the garden.
The garden is organized into sections that feature specific plants. Make sure to check out Australia’s most famous plant export: the gum tree, or eucalyptus. A range of native wildflowers from across Australia can also be viewed in season around the Australian Eucalypt Lawn.
The fragrance of the herb garden, which displays a wide variety of culinary plants in a traditional Elizabethan setting, was also one of my favorite sections.
The Royal Botanic Garden is well-known for its water conservation techniques. The Water Conservation Garden teaches ways to conserve this precious resource while creating a pleasing display of flowering and foliage plants which can thrive with minimum watering.
The Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary in Brisbane, Australia, is the world’s first and largest koala sanctuary, with over 130 koalas.
You must get your picture taken while you’re cuddling a koala. It’s an amazing experience.
You can walk around with and handfeed kangaroos in their habitat. They let you walk right up to them and take pictures. You can also handfeed lorikeets.
The sanctuary is the home to a large variety of Aussie wildlife, all in beautiful, natural settings. The demonstration of Australian cattle dogs in action to corral sheep is quite a sight to see.
Many, many thanks to my guest author Terri Sinclair, coach, motivational speaker and publisher of Develup - a website dedicated to helping people develop & realize their potential.
Websites: Adelaide Botanic Garden, Royal Botanic Garden of Melbourne, Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
Adelaide Botanic Garden
North Terrace
Adelaide SA 5000
Australia
Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne
Private Bag 2000
Birdwood Avenue, South Yarra
Victoria, Australia, 3141
Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary
Jesmond Road, Fig Tree Pocket
Qld 4069, AUSTRALIA
Telephone +61 7 3378 1366
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