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Your VisitAll the information you need if you are planning to visit the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Mount Tomah - and all about what there is to see and do when you get here.
The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden - set high on an ancient mountainscape, an enchanted place of colourful seasons and cloud-wrapped valley vistasAs you enter this cool climate paradise through a stately avenue of Australian Antarctic Beech and Chilean Roble, you’ll encounter rare and beautiful plants from the southern hemisphere. See Wollemi Pines and colourful displays of proteas, waratahs, banksias, and ancient southern hemisphere conifers, set against a backdrop of 45-metre-tall Brown Barrel eucalypts, with panoramic views over the Wollemi wilderness. Wander through the displays of rhododendrons, heaths and heathers, maples, Tibetan Tree Peonies, and deciduous Dogwoods in the Eurasian Woodland; the North American Woodland’s breathtaking autumn colours of Ash, Oak and Maple will delight you. Take a stroll along the Lady Fairfax Walk amongst towering Blue Mountains rainforest trees. Visit the Wollemi Pine Grove, planted in 1998, in the lush rainforest along the Gondwanan Forest Walk and be inspired by the prehistoric beauty of one of the world’s rarest plants. Take the Plant Explorers Walk, tracing the adventures of intrepid plant collectors who discovered some of our bestknown garden plants. The rich botanical landscape of Mount Tomah also provides habitat for an array of marsupials, reptiles and birds. If you are patient you may see Brush-tailed and Ring-tailed Possums, Sugar and Greater Gliders, and rarely you may catch a glimpse of a Diamond Python or Eastern Tiger Snake. Look out for more than 150 native bird species including the Satin Bower Bird, Eastern Whip Bird, Superb Fairy Wren, Superb Lyrebird, Wonga Pigeon, Yellow-tailed Black Cockatoo and Gang-gang Cockatoo. Why not visit one of our other two botanic gardens? |
Audio tourUnique stories of Australian Plants - Blue Mountains World Heritage
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