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Botanic Gardens in Australia​

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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Picture
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:
  • Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan Narellan Road, Mount Annan NSW 2567 - a 416 hectares site which is part of the Royal Sydney Botanic Gardens. (visitor map pdf). Special collections of Grevillea, Bottlebrush, Banksia, Wattle, Eucalypt, Clonal collection of the wild Wollemi Pine colony. Plus it's also home to the Australian Plant Bank and will become home to the National Herbarium of NSW (currently located at the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney) at a brand new Centre for Innovation for Plant Sciences
  • Blue Mountains Botanic Garden at Mount Tomah -  28 hectares of rich acid clay loam. PDF about site including map. The diverse woodland, trees and plants that can found in these gardens are detailed on this page​
Picture
Proteaceae garden in Mt Tomah Botanical Garden, in the Blue Mountains

New South Wales - Arboretum

  • ​Pilot Hill Arboretum - Tumut, NSW - 3 hectares; The arboretum has plantings of more than fifty tree species from all over the world, with most planted in the 1920s and 1930s.
  • Demesne Farm Minor Arboretum - Coomba Park
  • Dulegal Native Plant Arboretum - Woolomin

Other Botanic Gardens in NSW

  • Albury Botanic Garden - est. 1887; 1,000 plus native and exotic plant species​​
  • ​Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum - Wellington NSW 
  • Burringbar Botanic Gardens - NSW 
  • Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens - Batemans Bay NSW
  • Fruit Spirit Botanical Gardens - Dorroughby NSW
  • Galaringi Botanic Parkland - Carlingford 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
  • North Coast Regional Botanic Garden - Coffs Harbour NSW 
Hunter Valley
  • Hunter Region Botanic Gardens - Motto Farm NSW - an area of 140 hectares, much of which has been preserved as natural bushland.
Lord Howe Island
  • Lord Howe Island Botanic Gardens - on Lord Howe Island off the coast of NSW which comprises the eroded remains of a seven-million-year-old shield volcano. It's a Lord Howe Island is a distinct terrestrial ecoregion known as the Lord Howe Island subtropical forests. Listed as a World Heritage Site of global natural significance by UNESCO. This is the official website for the Lord Howe Island Group. Also see ​Flora of Australia online: Norfolk and Lord Howe Islands
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fruiting Lepidorrhachis mooreana at 820 metres above sea level, Mount Gower, Lord Howe Island, Australia (via Wikimedia Commons)
Wentworth
  • Australian Inland Botanic Gardens - Mildura (Mourquong) NSW/VIC  - designed as a repository for a range of Australian native plant materials and a large collection of plant species found in many countries throughout the world. Includes the rare Wollemai Pine, Wollemai nobillis, planted relatively recently after its discovery.
  • Tamworth Regional Botanic Garden - NSW Tibooburra Outback Botanic Gardens - NSW
  • Tweed Shire Regional Botanic Gardens - Murwillumbah NSW
  • Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens - NSW
  • Wollongong Botanic Gardens - NSW

Other Gardens

  • ​Cook Park - Orange NSW 
  • ​E G Waterhouse National Camellia Garden - Caringbah, Sydney suburb NSW
  • Elizabeth Park - Dubbo NSW
  • Hunter Valley Gardens - Pokolbin NSW - 60 acres and 10 feature gardens in the Hunter Valley. Includes more than six thousand trees, one million ground covers and six hundred thousand shrubs
  • Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve - Sutherland NSW 
  • Ku-Ring-Gai Wildflower Garden - St Ives NSW
  • ​Stocks Native Nursery - Harden NSW 
  • ​Stony Range Flora Reserve - Dee Why NSW
  • Sylvan Grove Native Garden - Picnic Point NSW 
  • Wirrimbirra Field Study Centre and Sanctuary - Bargo NSW

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
  • George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens - Darwin - 42 hectares of Botanic Gardens established 130 years ago; Gardens were severely damaged during Cyclone Tracy in 1974, 89% of all plants were lost. Currently approx 30% of plants are native to Australia. Download Botanic Gardens map (pdf 4991Kb)
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

Bundaberg
  • ​Bundaberg Botanic Gardens - 27 hectares of land and feature a variety of 10,000 trees and shrubs.
Gold Coast
  • Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens : Rosser Park - Gold Coast QLD


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  • Benalla Botanical Gardens
  • Buninyong Botanic Gardens ​
  • Camperdown Botanic Gardens 
  • Castlemaine Botanical Garden 
  • Colac Botanic Gardens
  • Cooktown Botanic Gardens 
  • Cowra Japanese Garden
  • Cranbourne Botanic Gardens - see Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne 
  • Derby Botanic Gardens
  • Emerald Botanic Gardens 
  • Fairhill Native Plants & Botanic Gardens - Yandina QLD
  • Flecker Botanic Gardens - Cairns QLD
  • Gayndah Botanical Gardens & Pioneer Place 
  • Geelong Botanic Gardens
  • Gisborne Botanic Gardens
  • Goondiwindi Botanic Gardens of the Western Woodlands - Goondiwindi QLD
  • Great Sandy Region Botanic Gardens - Hervey Bay QLD
  • ​Ingham Memorial Botanic Gardens 
  • Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens - see Booderee Botanic Gardens
  • Keilor Botanic Gardens 
  • Kyneton Botanic Gardens 
  • Koroit Botanic Gardens 
  • Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens 
  • Malmsbury Botanical Gardens 
  • Mount Lofty Botanic Garden 
  • Mt Martin Regional Botanic Park Lagoons - Mackay QLD - see Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens 
  • Lake McDonald Botanic Gardens - Cooroy QLD
  • Maleny Botanic Gardens - QLD
    Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden - Tanawha QLD 
    Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens - see Brisbane Botanic Gardens
  • Myall Park Botanic Garden - Glenmorgan QLD
  • Noosa Botanic Gardens 
  • Norfolk Island Botanic Gardens 
  • Orange Botanic Gardens 
  • Penshurst Botanic Gardens 
  • ​Picton Botanical Gardens 
  • Portland Botanical Gardens 
  • Port Fairy Botanic Gardens 
  • Redcliffe Botanic Gardens - QLD
  • Rockhampton Botanic Gardens
  • ​Royal Botanic Gardens, Cranbourne ​
  • Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens - QLD
  • Tondoon Botanic Gardens - Gladstone QLD​
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

  • Atherton Arboretum Tropical Forest Research Centre QLD
  • ​​Sherwood Arboretum 
  • Coolgardie Arboretum ​​
  • Dunkeld Arboretum Development Group Inc. 
  • Esperance (Helms) Exotic & Indigenous Arboretum 
  • Kalgoorlie Inland Forest Arboretum ​
  • Townsville Palmetum - QLD

Other Gardens in Queensland

  • Anderson Park - Townsville QLD
  • Barossa Bushgardens
  • Bellingen Hospital Grounds
  • Botanical Ark, The - Mossman QLD
  • Daintree Wilderness Refugium - Mossman QLD
  • ​Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens - Thuringowa, near Townsville QLD
  • Kershaw Gardens - North Rockhampton QLD 
  • Kholo Botanic Gardens - Ipswich QLD 
  • Laurel Bank Park - Toowoomba QLD 
  • Queens Gardens - Townsville QLD
  • Queens Park - Mackay QLD 
  • ​Queens Park Gardens - Toowoomba QLD 
  • Brunswick Valley Heritage Park 
  • Burnley Gardens
  • Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve 
  • Illawarra Grevillea Park 
  • Kirk's Water Wise Garden - Ballarat VIC
  • Toowoomba Queens Park - QLD

South Australia
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Palm (or Tropical) house, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia
Palm (or Tropical) house, Adelaide Botanic Gardens, South Australia
Adelaide
  • Adelaide Botanic Garden - Includes National Rose Trial Garden, Botanic Gardens of Australia Rose Garden.
  • Mount Lofty Botanic Garden - cool temperate hill garden - part of the South Australia Botanic Gardens
Blackwood SA
  • Wittunga Botanic Garden - specialises in ericas and proteas
Port Augusta SA
  • Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden
Terowie, SA
  • Terowie Botanic Gardens

South Australia - Arboreta

  • Currency Creek Arboretum - Morphett Vale SA 
  • Roxby Downs Arboretum - SA
  • Waite Arboretum - University of Adelaide SA

Other Gardens

Athelstone SA
  • ​Black Hill Flora Centre
Stirling SA
  • Beechwood Heritage Garden
Victor Harbor SA
  • Nagawooka Flora Park

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

  • Cliff Grounds Reserve - West Launceston TAS
  • Tasmanian Bushland Garden - Buckland

Picture
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 
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  • Alfred Nicholas Memorial Gardens - Sherbrooke VIC 
Ballarat
  • Ballarat Botanical Gardens 
Benalla 
  • Mansfield Botanic Park
Berwick 
  • Wilson Botanic Park
  • Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens - Daylesford VIC 
Greater Bendigo
  • Bendigo Botanic Gardens, White Hills 
Frankston
  • George Pentland Botanic Gardens
Hamilton
  • 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
Horsham
  • Horsham Rural City Council Botanic Gardens 
Kalorama
  • Karwarra Australian Plant Garden
Melton VIC 
  • Melton Botanic Garden

  • St Kilda Botanical Garden - VIC
  • Warrnambool Botanic Gardens - VIC
  • Williamstown Botanic Gardens VIC


Victoria - Arboreta

  • Dame Elisabeth Murdoch Arboretum - Langwarrin (Frankston) VIC
  • Emu Creek Arboretum - Bendigo VIC
  • Mount Dandenong Arboretum - Sherbrook VIC
  • Peter Francis Points Arboretum - Coleraine VIC ​
  • R J Hamer Arboretum - Olinda VIC
  • Wail Arboretum - Dimboola VIC
  • Warbys Arboretum, Friends of - Wangarrata, VIC

Victoria - Other Gardens

Balwyn
  • Maranoa Garden
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  • George Tindale Memorial Gardens - Sherbrooke VIC 
  • ​National Rhododendron Garden - Olinda VIC
  • Denbly - Killarney VIC
  • East Gippsland Species Garden - Kalimna West VIC
  • Nindethana - Lake Albert SA
  • Pirianda Garden - Olinda VIC
  • Phillips Gardens - Maryborough VIC
  • Queen Mary Gardens - St Arnaud VIC 
  • ​Queen Victoria Park - Beechworth VIC
  • Werribee Park, The Mansion at - VIC
  • Sale Botanic Gardens - VIC
    Savill's Garden - Heywood VIC

Western Australia

Albeny
  • Mount Martin Regional Botanic Park - Albany

  • Araluen Botanic Park - near Perth WA
  • Kings Park and Botanic Garden - Perth WA

Western Australia - Arboreta

  • Big Brook Forest Arboretum - Pemberton WA
  • Dryandra Inland Arboretum - Narrogin WA
  • Forest Arboretum - Pemberton WA
  • Golden Valley Tree Park - Balingup WA



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