Re: Australian gardens?

Chantal,
There are very good botanical gardens in Sydney and Perth.  I don't know about the other places you are visiting.  Australia does have the Open Gardens Scheme, (not nearly as comprehensive as England's) with open gardens described in a magazine type book, which probably can only be obtained in Australia.  Their website lists dates of garden openings, but no descriptions:


http://www.opengarden.org.au/regions.htm

A boolean search for "botanic garden" on the advanced search page of the Austrlian government Tourist info page,
http://www.australia.com/advanced_search/advanced_keyword_search/Advd_Search_ALL.aust?L=en&C=US
produced 143 hits.

Australia also has many national and state parks, and also nature preserves, which preserve the native flora.

You might also ask on the Gardening in Oz forum in the australian Garden Web website:
http://www.au.gardenweb.com/forums/


Richard Starkeson
San Francisco

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Chantal Guiraud wrote:

>Hi, every body, I'm planning a trip to Australia in february/march 2006 and would like to visit some 
>interesting gardens. I've never seen any australian member discussing on this forum, so 
>perhaps I'll have no answer at all. perhaps, too, somebody have visited good places and can give me the
>adresses? I know it's a huge continent, so I give you my itinerary :
>Sydney/Adelaide by car along the coastal road
>Adelaide/Perth by train
>Perth/Ayers Rock by plane
>Ayers Rock/Alice Springs by mobilehome
>Alice Springs/Cairns by plane
>Cairns/Sydney by car along the east coast.
>All this from the 5 of february to the 15 of march
>Do you know if a yellow book exists as in England 
>? This is a book of gardens to visit, edited each 
>year.
>Chantal
>Montpellier, France where we had 24°F 2 days ago! 
>Who's talking of worldwide warming up !
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