| Geelong Botanic Gardens | Pages: one two three | |||
| We love going to these gardens and have so for over 20 years. Things have changed a lot in this time. Most recently is the addition of the 21st Century Garden. This is the new entrance - built on a grand scale. Strangely the entrance seems to be a stylized boat with steel palm trees acting as sails - very impressive indeed. This new area was added around 2000, with the main gardens opening in 1851. This makes it the fourth oldest gardens in Australia. |
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| Map of the Gardens | The new entrance from afar | Bottle trees closer to the doors. | ||
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| View from the boat. | A grasslands favourite - Blue Devils. | Cacti plants in a bold planting. | ||
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| Cacti close-ups. | The old entrance - quite traditional | Bollard figures greeting you | The Avenue | A Fountain at the end. |
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| The Rose Garden - weeds in heaven. | A favourite - the glass hot house | This year even better as an epiphyte orchid greets you at the entrance. | ||
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| A statue - just how do people carve such amazing things | Amazing colour | |||
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| Outside again | The Aussie section. | |||
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