Adelaide Botanic Gardens

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Adelaide's Botanic Gardens is a 125 acre area of land inside the north east corner of Adelaide's parklands, encompassing a fenced garden, open parklands and the Adelaide Zoo.

Botanic Gardens

First set aside in Colonel William Light's city plan for Adelaide in 1838, it wasn't until 1854, after a public appeal to Governor Sir Henry Young that gardens were established at the current location.

First opened in 1857, the gardens are influenced by the Royal Gardens at Kew, England and Versailles, France and receives 1.3 million visitors per annum.

One of the garden's nineteenth-century directors was the botanist Dr Richard Schomburgk, brother to the German naturalist Robert Schomburgk. He was a major advocate for the establishment of forest reserves in the increasingly denuded South Australian countryside.D.W. Meinig, On the Margins of the Good Earth, Rigby, 1962, 72

Amongst other scientific and educational displays of native and international horticulture, the gardens hold one of the world's only propagated Wollemi Pine trees.

Palm House

Imported in 1875 from Bremen, Germany, opened in 1877 and restored in 1995, the palm house is a Victorian glasshouse located to the west of the main lake. It currently holds a collection of Malagasy arid flora.

Rose Garden

Begun in 1996, the Adelaide Rose Garden is a trial garden where roses are tested for their suitability for Australian climates.

Bicentennial Conservatory

Built in 1987, to celebrate Australia's Bicentenary, Adelaide's Bicentennial Conservatory is 100 m long and almost 30 m high making it the largest single span conservatory in the southern hemisphere. The conservatory houses at risk or endangered tropical rainforest plants from northern Australia, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and south Pacific Islands.

Notes

See also

• Botanic Park, Adelaide

External links

• [Adelaide Botanic Gardens]

 

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