Australian Botanic Gardens

The following list is based on the Directory of Australian Botanic Gardens. 
  • National Botanical Gardens are identified first
  • Gardens are then listed under States and Territories with short descriptions for the significant gardens
  • Arboretum have been separated out. 
  • Official websites have been linked to the name - where available
  • Summary details about all the gardens can be found in the DABG ( see above link)
Issues of The Botanic Gardener - the Newsletter of Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand - are available on Issuu 

National

Australian National Botanic Gardens - Canberra ACT - Founded in 1949. 90 hectares lying at the base of the Black Mountain in central Canberra. It includes 40 hectares of botanical gardens. Part of the National Parks Australia. The mission of the ANBG is to study and promote Australia's flora and the gardens include the largest living collection of native Australian flora.  95% of plants are labelled.

A.C.T. Arboretum

National Arboretum, Canberra - A huge 250 hectare (618 acre) site which features 
  • 94 forests of rare, endangered and symbolic trees from around Australia and the world. Two of the forests are nearly 100 hundred years old.
  • Over 44,000 trees from over 100 countries
  • one of the world’s largest living collections of rare, endangered and significant trees.
In 2003, the ACT Government dedicated a large area to the west of Canberra - devastated by the 2003 bush fires - to being the site for an innovative new national arboretum. The master plan for the National Arboretum Canberra has been progressively implemented since 2005

A.C.T.

Booderee Botanic Gardens - Jervis Bay ACT
Westbourne Woods - Yarralumla, ACT

New South Wales
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The Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney is in the centre of town - immediately adjacent to the CBD and the Opera House and curling around Farm Cove

The Botanic Gardens Trust

The Botanic Gardens Trust is a statutory body responsible for
  • Centennial Park
  • Moore Park
  • Queens Park
  • Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
  • The Domain
  • Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
  • Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah

Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, Mrs Macquaries Rd, Sydney. - a 30 hectare site (map of the garden). Established in 1816, this is the oldest botanic garden and scientific institution in Australia.

Despite the status of the gardens, the RBGS website is very odd - it appears to be all about events and shopping and wildlife - with extremely little information about plants and plant collections to be seen within the gardens!
Other gardens associated with the Botanic Gardens Trust are:
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Proteaceae garden in Mt Tomah Botanical Garden, in the Blue Mountains

New South Wales - Arboretum

Other Botanic Gardens in NSW

Glasshouses in the North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia
Glasshouses in the North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia (via Wikimedia Commons)
​​Coffs Harbour
Hunter Valley Lord Howe Island
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fruiting Lepidorrhachis mooreana at 820 metres above sea level, Mount Gower, Lord Howe Island, Australia (via Wikimedia Commons)
Wentworth

Other Gardens

Northern Territory
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Alice Springs
  • Alice Springs Desert Park ​- Desert Wildlife Park & Botanic Gardens​. Three carefully recreated desert habitats - Sand Country, Woodland and Desert Rivers. Special Collection: Bush tucker garden. English, French, German and Italian map (pdf 995Kb)
  • Olive Pink Botanic Garden - Alice Springs NT - includes special sollection of Native plants of Central Australia. Founded in 1956 by Miss Olive Muriel Pink as the Australian arid regions flora reserve and opened to the public in 1985. Includes over 600 central Australian plants, 145 of these occur naturally within the rocky hill habitat. 40 rare or threatened species present. Online garden map.
​Darwin
Entrance to the George Brown Botanic Gardens, Darwin NT
Entrance to the George Brown Botanic Gardens, Darwin NT

Queensland

Botanic Gardens in Queensland

Brisbane's Botanic Gardens from Parliament House to the Brisbane River, ca. 1889
Brisbane's Botanic Gardens from Parliament House to the Brisbane River, ca. 1889
Brisbane
  • Brisbane Botanic Gardens ­ Mt-Coot-tha - Founded in 1970 and officially opened in 1978; 56 hectare botanic gardens. Feature more than 20,000 plants - representing c. 5000 species. Plants are displayed in thematic and geographic communities. In 1985, work commenced on the 27 hectare Australian Plant Communities collection.
  • City Botanic Gardens - Established 1855. Brisbane's original botanic gardens. The gardens' plant collections include the first Queensland native plants to be formally planted. Special Collections: Palms and Cycads, Figs, Bamboo

BundabergGold Coast

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Adansonia grandidieri tree in the arid plants section of the Mount Coot-tha Botanical Gardens
Adansonia grandidieri tree in the arid plants section of the Mount Coot-tha Botanical Gardens. (via Wikimedia Commons - Photo taken in October (mid spring) of 2012 by Craig Franklin)

Arboreta in Queensland

Other Gardens in Queensland

South Australia
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Palm (or Tropical) house, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia
Palm (or Tropical) house, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia
AdelaideBlackwood SAPort Augusta SATerowie, SA

South Australia - Arboreta

Other Gardens

Athelstone SAStirling SAVictor Harbor SA

Tasmania

A weir in the Tasmanian Arboretum
A weir in the Tasmanian Arboretum
Hobart TAS 
  • Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens - Focus is on concentrate on plant collections with valid regional connections, essentially provenance collections that play an incredibly important role in the areas of biodiversity conservation and natural sciences. Special Collections: Conifers, Epacrids, Japanese and Chinese gardens
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Tasmania - Arboretum

 Devonport TAS 
  • The Tasmanian Arboretum - Incorporated on the 16th of May 1984. The world's largest collection of Tasmanian living woody plants; Southern Hemisphere Conifers and plants from northern hemisphere forests, in an extensive park.​
Invermay TAS
  • Heritage Forest - The park has introduced vegetation featuring an arboretum of all 27 of Tasmanian's Eucalyptus species

Other Gardens
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Lomatia tasmanica in Hobart Botanical Garden - This is a critically endangered plant. All of the existing plants are genetically identical - collectively considered to be one of the oldest living plant clones (for the last 43,600 years)

Victoria

Melbourne
Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne ​
BallaratBenalla Berwick Greater BendigoFrankstonHamilton
  • Hamilton Botanic Gardens - The site for the gardens was set aside in 1853 and first planted out in 1870, making the gardens amongst the earliest provincial botanic gardens
HorshamKaloramaMelton VIC 

Victoria - Arboreta


Victoria - Other Gardens

Balwyn
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Western Australia

Albeny

Western Australia - Arboreta