Australian National Botanical Gardens

The capital of Australia, Canberra has a beautiful attraction in the form of a national botanical garden, which is simply impossible not to visit. It is administered by the Environmental and Cultural Heritage Service of the Australian Government.

These gardens represent the most complete flora of the region. Their main task is to preserve and study it. In the botanical garden, a wide variety of botanical resources is maintained and developed, quite rare plant species are bred that are on the verge of extinction.

The place for the future gardens was chosen on the Black Mountain. Back in the 30s, this was the first thought. The first trees were planted in September 1949, but since tourist services and development of the site itself were slow, the official opening took place in 1970.

Currently, about 40 hectares of land are occupied by botanical gardens. They are divided into thematic zones, and the flora is represented there on the principle of ecosystems, which in this form exist in natural conditions. In total, on the territory of the botanical garden you can see 5500 species of all kinds of plants.

Among the presented exposition is the flora of tropical forests, deserts and alpine meadows, and other systems.