Re: Australian gardens?

Chantal,
I've been in Sydney Botanical Garden in March and thought it was fabulous. Also walks through bush outside the city. Everything was new to an American, and even without the wonderful displays of annuals, I was quite happy meeting the banksias et al in their native habitat. And my recollection of the weather in early March was that it was already cooling down and heading into fall. Warm enough to swim in the ocean, not hot enough to need air conditioning. I say you are in for a treat.

Kay Dreher
Berkeley, CA

On Nov 27, 2005, at 6:53 PM, Tony and Moira wrote:

Chantal,

I dunno whether you realise it, but Australia in Feb/March will be /appallingly/ hot and there will hardly be any gardens worth seeing at that time of year anyway!!

There are some good Spring gardens, but spring there is much earlier - Sept-Oct - after that it "stokes up" and everything dries out.

West Australia has the best wild flowers, but there again, the time to see them is Aug-Sept.

Victoria (the State that Melbourne is in) has fairly good wildflowers, but nothing like those in the far west.

Sorry to give such negative info!!!

Tony Ryan

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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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