Childrens Garden
One of the great things about the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is that they have a Children’s Garden.
Children's Garden Entrance.
Children absolutely love this place. For active kids there’s lots of things to climb over, paths that weave their way through bamboo groves and also a winding Melaleuca arbour. There’s also water fountains, a small stream and pond and lots of unusual plants that the kids find interesting.
On a busy day the Children’s garden is full of families with kids playing and enjoying the many places to hide (from their parents).
This Bamboo Grove has a group of Bangalow Palms, Archontophoenix cunninghamiana, growing in the middle of it.
Melaleuca quinquenervia grows into a large tree but these have been pruned into a long arbour. What a great idea!
From a gardeners point of view this garden has lots of interesting plants ranging from a vegetable garden with fruit trees, the bamboo grove, Australian native plants and lot’s lot’s more. So if you’ve got kids this is a great place to take them and even if you haven’t then I’m sure you can find something of interest.
Banksia Giant Candles
Brachychiton rupestris
Corymbia ficifolia "Summertime", flowering in mid-winter?
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Geelong Botanic Gardens
The Geelong Botanic Gardens is well over one hundred years old. A new addition to the gardens though is a very contemporary water wise garden full of some very drought tolerant plants.
The garden is made of drought tolerant plants from both here in Australia and around the world. These include cactus and succulent species, Agaves and Aloes etc.
Some of the feature plants are some water wise Brachychiton rupestris (bottles trees), a large Dracaena draco, (Dragon Tree) as well as palms, cycads and pine trees.
Many of these plants are nowadays very common in contemporary water wise gardens as they are quite architectural. The only problem is that many of them are slow growers so you either have to be patient or spend the extra money to buy advanced plants.
I have lots of these types of plants growing in my front garden and will write about them in future posts. In the meantime though have a look at some of my photos from the Water Wise Garden at the Geelong Botanic Gardens.
The Geelong Botanic Gardens located at Geelong, Victoria, Australia.
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