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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