Botanic Gardens Trust, Sydney, Australia

 

Your Visit

The sensation of the late 18th century in the field of botany was the discovery of a new continent filled with exotic plants unknown to the rest of the world. The Australian Botanic Garden displays over 4000 of those species set in 416 hectares of hills and lakes. The Garden also features outdoor sculptures, free gas barbecues, a restaurant and a gift shop which sells plants. The Australian Botanic Garden is a major event venue and the most popular visitor attraction in the Camden district.

All the information you need if you are planning to visit the Australian Botanic Garden - and all about what there is to see and do when you get here.

Melaleuca House Cafe-Restaurant is now open weekdays 10 am to 5 pm, weekends 8 am to 5 pm.

Please note the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan is closed on Christmas Day.

The Australian Botanic Garden - spread your wings and take in the fresh air at Australia’s largest botanic garden 

This expansive garden and parkland will delight your senses with the sights, sounds and smells that are the essence of Australia: the eucalypt fragrance of gum trees, the wild profusion of yellow wattle blossom in August, the unique calls of our native birdlife, the glimpse of the timid wallaby.

This is the place for a walk, a picnic and communing with nature. This is the place to go wild. Discover Bunyah Pines, banksias, bottle trees and coolabah trees, Wollemi Pines, waratahs and Kangaroo Paws. Enjoy the placid lakes rippled by black swans; and grassland and forest, home to shy wallaroos, swamp wallabies and spiny echidnas. Settle in at the bird hide to spot some of the 180 different bird species: Kookaburras, Clamorous Reed Warblers, Sacred Kingfi shers, Silvereyes and Superb Fairy-Wrens, Yellow-Faced Honeyeaters, Yellow-Rumped Thornbills and melodious Magpies and Currawongs.

This is the place to relax with the family. Lakeside lawns and informal theme gardens with strangely shaped grevilleas and banksias provide havens for picnicking. Bring your bikes to explore along quiet roads and cycling routes. Meandering tracks will take you to places reminiscent of pre-European settlement, interrupted only by the chatter of teeming birdlife.

Are you interested in conservation and horticulture? Don’t miss the Cumberland Plain Woodland, serene remnant bush that preserves distinctive eucalypts such as the Narrow-leaved Ironbark, Forest Red Gum and Grey Box, and understorey treasures such as the Austral Bugle with its exotic violet flowers; the fine yellow starburst of native Buttercup, and the sumptuous clusters of the rust-red flower spikes of Kangaroo Grass.

View time-lapse video of the Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan: 8-9 November 2011

Why not visit one of your other two botanic gardens?

 

 

Connections Garden

Paper daisies

Picnic

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