Authors ratings on gardens he has visited * to ****** No stars means the author has not yet visited the gardens. Some of the gardens were visited over 20 years ago.

* Poor native content.

** Native content good.

*** Layout and design good plus

**** People friendly facilities for the public access etc.

***** Educational.

****** People oriented with something very different and inspirational.

****** Is a garden that has good native content, well laid out, and is people oriented with something very different and inspirational.

To date Redland Shire “Indigiscapes” at Capalaba (11) and Cranburn Botanic Gardens (106) are the only Gardens in Australia that we have visited which have earned the 6 Green Stars.

Numbers at the end of each garden; in Bold Green, is a suggested visiting order for a trip around Australia starting in Grafton and ending in Coffs Harbour.

States by Alphabetical order

Below Numerical order for a Trip around Australia

Australian Capital Territory

Acton – Australian National Botanic Gardens. (90mm native plants on 90 hectares. Largest collection of Australian Natives in the world.) ****** 108

Yarralumla – Lindsay Pryor National Arboretum. (.) 109

New South Wales

Albury – Albury Botanic Gardens. (15mm Native plants on 4 hectares. Traditional garden settings utilizing native plants on 4 hectares) 86

Auburn – Auburn Botanical Gardens. (15mm Native plants on 9.7 hectares. Specializing in different microclimate gardens.) 123

Bankstown – Sylvan Grove Native Garden – Picnic Point (100mm native plants on 1.5 hectares.) 122

Batemans Bay – Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens. (100mm native plants on 42 hectares. Specializing in Local Native plants from the central southern coast of New South Wales.) 107

Bargo – Wirrimbirra Field Study Centre and Sanctuary (100mm native plants on 90 hectares.) 116

Bellingen – Bellingen Hospital Grounds.                         (Many ancient well developed trees.) ****** 140                                    

Blue Mountains – Mount Tomah Botanic Garden          (Traditional garden using a mixture of native and exotic on 4 hectares) ****** 131

Buronga – North of Mildura Australian Inland Botanic Gardens (Was Sunraysia Oasis Botanical Gardens. 80mm native plants on 152 hectares.) 65

Bulli / Illawarra– Grevillea Park. (100mm native plants on 15 hectares specializing in Proteaceae. $5.00 an adult.) ****** 117

Carlingford – Galaringi Botanic Parkland. (100mm Native privately owned on 23 hectares.) 121

Coffs Harbour – North Coast Regional Botanic Garden. (70mm native plants on 20 hectares. Specializing in rare & endangered natives from Northern New South Wales and Representative Continental plants.) ****** 141

Coomba Park – Demesne Farm Minor Arboretum. (90mm Native privately owned on 5 hectares. $2.00 adult) 139

Cowra – Cowra Japanese Garden. (Japanese style with mainly plants native to Asia.) 133

Dee Why – Stony Range Flora Reserve (100mm native gardens on 3.3 hectares. Entry fee 50 cents or donation.) 124

Dorroughby via Lismore – Fruit Spirit Botanical Garden. (Privately owned collection of tropical rainforest trees with fruit and potential food crop plants world wide on 32 hectares. $5.00 adult by appointment.) 2

Dubbo – Elizabeth Park. (5mm native plants on 10 hectares.) 135

Glenbrook – Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve. (100mm native plants on 2 hectares. Specializes in small native shrubs) 125

Grafton – The Pinnacles – Andrew Mellis Gardens (100mm native specializing in sand loving plants on 3 hectares.  1 With the sales from this book we have the expectations of securing the 1586 hectare property next door. The property with improvements and financial assistance from further sales will be donated to the Clarence Valley council to help develop a Memorial Botanic Garden on around 6 hectares which will incorporate features from the best gardens in Australia and reforestation of those portions not used in the gardens. The remainder of the land will be incorporated into the surrounding National Parks and a Floral Reserve.  1

Jervis Bay – Booderee National Park and Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 80 hectares. Formerly Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens specializes in Aboriginal food plants and those plants used in their daily lives.  Entry fee $10:00 $5:00 concession) 112

Mount Annan – Mount Annan Botanic Garden.   (100mm native plants on 416 hectares. A large collection comprising over 4,000 Australian Natives.) ****** 127

Mount Tomah – Blue Mountains botanic gardens (14mm native plants on 28 hectares) 129

Mullumbimby – Brunswick Valley Heritage Park.  (100mm local natives) ****** 4

Mumbil – Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum . (Specializing in Native rainforest trees, ferns and mint bushes) 131

Murwillumbah – Tweed Heads Shire Botanical Gardens (100mm native plants on 158 hectares. Specializing in revegetation projects and education on) ****** 3

Newcastle – Hunter Region Botanic Gardens . (80mm native plants on 133 hectares. Specializing in natives from right across Australia.) ****** 138

Orange – Cook Park . () 130

Orange – Orange Botanic Gardens . (50mm native plants on 17 hectares. Mixture of Native and exotic plants.) ****** 132

Picton – Picton Botanical Gardens .     (50mm native plants on 4.1 hectares.) 114

Shoalhaven – Waraipendi Gardens (1005 native plants on ????? hectares) 113

St Ives – Ku-Ring-Gai Wildflower Garden . (100mm native plants on 123 hectares. Specializing in wildflowers and sandstone plants from the region.) 126

Sutherland – Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve .          (100mm Australian native plants on 2.2 hectares.) 119

Sutherland – E G Waterhouse National Camellia Gardens . (Specializing in Camelias within a native background) 118

Sydney – Royal Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 30 hectares.) 120

Tamworth – Tamworth Regional Botanic Garden (75mm native plants on 28 hectares.) 136

Tibooburra – Tibooburra Outback Botanic Gardens (While registered there appears to be no available data on the gardens except that it is 100mm native.) 148

Tumit – Pilot Hill Arboretum (0mm native plants on 3 hectares) 110

Wagga Wagga – Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 10 hectares.) 111

Wellington – Burrendong Botanic gardens and Arbortorium (100mm native plants on 167 hectares.) 134

Wollongong – Wollongong Botanic Garden (60mm native plants on 29 hectares.) 115

Woolomin – Dulegal Native Plant Arboretum . (100mm threatened native plants on 20 hectares) 137

Northern Territory

Alice Springs – Desert Park (100mm native plants on 52 hectares.) 39

Alice Springs – Olive Pink Botanic Garden (95mm Native plants on 16 hectares of land formally started by Miss Olive Pink who dedicated her last 20 years to the flora of central Australia.) ****** 38

Alice Springs – Pitchi Ritchi Sanctuary (100mm Native plants on ????? hectares.) ****** 37

Palmerston – George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 41 hectares.) 40 ******

Queensland

Alexandra Bay – Daintree Wilderness Refugium (90mm native plants from the Daintree area on 8 hectares.) 35

Atherton – Atherton Arboretum (100mm native plants on 3 hectares.) 32

Benowa – Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens /Rosser Park (80mm mainly local native plants on 31 hectares.) ******5

Brisbane – Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 20 hectares.) ****** 8

Brisbane – Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha (50mm native plants and increasing on 52 hectares.) ****** 9

Brisbane – Roma Street- (50mm native plants on 12 hectares.) 8a Photo. ******

Bundaberg – Bundaberg Botanic Gardens (90mm native plants on 27 hectares.) 21

Cairns – Flecker Botanical Gardens (10mm native plants on 38 hectares.) ****** 33

Capalaba – Indigiscapes (98mm native plants on 14.5 hectares. Specializing in local native plants with 14 small backyard demonstration garden layouts – Excellent and entirely different concept.) ****** 11

https://indigiscapes.redland.qld.gov.au/info/2/things_to_do/3/botanic_gardens

Cooktown – Cooktown Botanic Gardens (80mm native plants on 62 hectares. Specializing in History especially from 1776 onwards.) 36

Cooroy – Lake McDonald Botanic Gardens (50mmnative plants on 8 hectares.) 19

Emerald – Emerald Botanic Gardens (75mm native plants on 42 hectares.) 25

Gayndah – Gayndah Botanical Gardens & Pioneer Place (98mm native plants on 8.33 hectares.) 14

Gladstone – Tondoon Botanic Gardens   (90mm native plants on 83 hectares.) 22

Glenmorgan – Myall Park Botanic Garden (100mm native plants on 128 hectares.) ****** 15

Goondiwindi – Goondiwindi Botanic Gardens of the Western Woodlands (100mm native plants on 25 hectares.) 16

Hervey Bay – Great Sandy Region Botanic Gardens (80mm native plants on 26 hectares.) 20

Ingham – Ingham Memorial Botanical Gardens   (50mmnative plants on 5.5 hectares.) 31

Mackay – Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens (Formerly known as The Lagoons. 80mm native plants on 48 hectares.) ****** 26

Maroochydore – Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden – Tanawha (100mm native plants on 112 hectares.) 17

Mossman – The Botanical Ark (?????mm native plants on ????? hectares. Private specialize in wild survival foods etc from primitive all areas of the world.) 34

Mount Tamborine – Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens   (50mm native plants on 9 hectares.) 6

Redcliffe – Redcliffe Botanic Gardens   (95mm native plants on ??????? hectares.) 7

Rockhampton – Rockhampton Botanic Gardens   (10mm native plants on 40 hectares.) 23

Rockhampton – Kershaw Gardens (85mm native plants on 38.5 hectares.) ****** 24

Sherwood – Sherwood Arboretum   (10mm native plants on 12 hectares.) 10

Townsville – Anderson Park (70mm native plants on 27 hectares.) ****** 30

Townsville – Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens (50mm native tropical plants on 5 hectares) 28

Townsville – Townsville Palmetum (50mm native plants on 16 hectares. Specializes in threatened plants of the world) 29

Townsville – Queens Gardens (10mm native plants on 4 hectares. Specializing in traditional cottage gardens.) 27

Toowoomba – Laurel Bank Park (100mm native plants on 4.4 hectares.) 12

Toowoomba – Queens Park Gardens – Toowoomba   (10mm native plants on 26.3 hectares.) 13

Yandina – Fairhill Native Plants & Botanic Gardens (100mmnative plants on 4 hectares.) ****** 18

South Australia

Adelaide – Beechwood Heritage Garden (10mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 55 *

Adelaide – Adelaide Botanic Garden (25mm native plants on 41 hectares.) 56 *

Adelaide – Black Hill Flora Centre (100mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 60**

Adelaide University – Waite Arboretum (60mm native plants on 30 hectares.) 59

Blackwood – Wittunga Botanic Garden (50mm native plants on 14 hectares.) 58

Hind Marsh Island – Currency Creek Arboretum (100mm native plants on 32 hectares. Dean is an avid collector of Eucalyptus.) ****** (Star rating based on an ABC Gardening episode. Facilities not known.) 62

Lake Albert – Nindethana (100mm native plants on 12 hectares.) 63

Nuriootpa – Barossa Bushgardens – Nuriootpa (100mm native plants on 7 hectares.) 54

Piccadilly – Mount Lofty Botanic Garden – Piccadilly (15mm native plants on 98 hectares.) 57

Port Augusta – Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden (100mm native plants on 250 hectares.) 52

Roxby Downs – Roxby Downs Arboretum (95+mm native plants on 2997 hectares.) 51

Terowei – Terowie Arid Lands Botanical Garden (100mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 53

Victor Harbour – Nangawooka Flora Park – Victor Harbour (80mm native plants on 2 hectares.) 61

Tasmania

Buckland – Tasmanian Bushland Garden (95mm native plants on ???????? hectares.) 94

Devonport – The Tasmanian Arboretum (30mm native plants on 58 hectares.) 98 *

Hobart – Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (70mm native plants on 13.5 hectares.) 93

Invermay – Heritage Forest (20mm native plants on 28 hectares.) 96

Kalorama – Karwarra Australian Plant Garden (100mm native plants on 2 hectares) 95

Launceston – Cliff Grounds Reserve (20mm native plants on 152 hectares.) 97

Victoria

Ballarat – Ballarat Botanical Gardens (10mm native plants on 20 hectares.) 76 *

Benalla – Benalla Botanical Gardens (25mm native plants on 5 hectares.) 84 *

Bendigo – Emu Creek Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 8 hectares.) 83 **

Bendigo – White Hills Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 25 hectares.) 80 *

Berwick – Wilson Botanic Park (30mm native plants on 39 hectares.) 99 *

Buninyong – Buninyong Botanic Gardens (20mm native plants on 2 hectares.) 77 *

Burronga – Australian Inland Botanic Gardens (Was Sunraysia Oasis Botanical Gardens. Mixture of native and Exotic.) 65

Camberdown – Camberdown Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 8 hectares.) 73 *

Castlemaine – Castlemaine Botanic Gardens – Castlemaine (10mm native plants on 23.8 hectares.) 81

Colac – Colac Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 12 hectares.) 74

Cranborne – Royal Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 363 hectares.) 104 ******

Daylesford – Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens (1mm native plants on 11 hectares.) 78

Dimboola – Wail Arbortorium (100mm native plants on 13 hectares.) 68

Frankston – George Pentland Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 7.5 hectares.) 103

Geelong – Geelong Botanic Gardens (20mm native plants on 7 hectares.) 75

Gisborne – Gisborne Botanic Gardens (5mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 87

Hamilton – Hamilton Botanic Gardens – Victoria (10mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 67

Horsham – Horsham Rural City Council Botanic Gardens (50mm native plants on 3.5 hectares.) 66

Kalimna – East Gippsland Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 2 hectares.) 105

Keilor – Keilor Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 10 hectares.) 88

Kalorama – Karwarra Australian Plant Garden (100mmnative plants on 2 hectares) 91

Kyneton – Kyneton Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 15 hectares.) 79

Malmsbury – Malmsbury Botanical Gardens (10mm native plants on 6.3 hectares.) 82

Melbourne – Royal Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 38.9 hectares.) 89

Melbourne – St Kilda Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 6.5 hectares.) 90

Midura – Australian Inland Botanic Gardens (50mm native plants on 120 hectares.) 64

Narre Warren Wilson Botanic Park (30mm native plants on 36 hectares.) 102

Penshurst – Penshurst Botanic Gardens – Penshurst (15mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 69

Portland – Portland Botanical Gardens (20mm native plants on 3.2 hectares.) 70

Port Fairy – Port Fairy Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 9 hectares.) 71

Sale – Sale Botanic Gardens (0mm native plants on 4.5 hectares.) 106

Sherbrooke – George Tindale Memorial Gardens (20mm native plants on 3.5 hectares.) 101

Wangarratta – Warby Ranges (100mm native plants on 0.5 hectares.) 85

Warrambool – Warrnambool Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 8 hectares.) 72

Werribee Park – The Mansion Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 120 hectares.) 91

Williamstown – Williamstown Botanic Gardens (0mm native plants on 4.5 hectares.) 92

Yarra Ranges – Karrawarra Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 2 hectares.) 100

Western Australia

Albany – Mount Martin Regional Botanic Park (100mm native plants on 403 hectares.) 47

Derby – Derby Botanic Gardens (40mm native plants on 0.375 hectares.) 41

Esperence – Esperance (Helms) Exotic & Indigenous Arboretum

(20mm native plants on 28 hectares.) 48

Kalgoorlie – Coolgardie Arboretum (100mm native plants on 30 hectares.) 49

Kalgoorlie – Kalgoorlie Arboretum (100mm native plants on 26.5 hectares.) 50

Narrogin – Dryandra Inland Arboretum (100mm native plants on 6 hectares.) 44

Pemberton – Big Brook Forest Arboretum (80mm native plants on 316 hectares.) 46

Pemberton – Forest Arboretum (60mm native plants on 9 hectares.) 45

Perth – Kings Park and Botanic Garden (90mm native plants on 400 hectares.) 43

Roleystone – Araluen Botanical Park – Roleystone (20mm native plants on 59 hectares.) 42 

External Territories

Lord Howe Island – Lord Howe Island Botanic Gardens.     (99mm indigenous plants from Lord Howe Island on 2 hectares.)

Norfolk Island – Norfolk Island Botanic Gardens.     (Specializing in native plants from Norfolk Island on 5.5 hectares.)

Numerical order of Gardens travelling around

Australia Trip direction staring at 1. Grafton and finishing at 141. Coffs Harbour.

1. Grafton – The Pinnacles – Andrew Mellis Gardens (100mm native specializing in sand loving plants on 3 hectares. Specialists in the Dodonea genus. With the sales from this book we have the expectations of securing the 1586 hectare property next door. The property with improvements and financial assistance from further sales will be donated to the Clarence Valley council to help develop the largest Memorial Botanic Gardens which will incorporate features from the best gardens in Australia and reforestation of those portions not used in the gardens. The 1586 hectare property is surrounded by National Parks and a Floral Reserve.
2. Dorroughby via Lismore – Fruit Spirit Botanical Garden. (Privately owned collection of tropical rainforest trees with fruit and potential food crop plants world wide on 32 hectares. $5.00 adult by appointment.) ******   
3. Murwillumbah – Tweed Heads Shire Botanical Gardens (100mm native plants on 158 hectares. Specializing in revegetation projects and education on)
4. Mullumbimby – Brunswick Valley Heritage Park. (100mm local natives)
5. Benowa – Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens/Rosser Park (70mm native plants on 31 hectares.) ******
6. Mount Tamborine – Tamborine Mountain Botanic Gardens (50mm native plants on 9 hectares.)    
7. Redcliffe – Redcliffe Botanic Gardens (95mm native plants on ??????? hectares.) 
8. Brisbane – Brisbane City Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 20 hectares.)
9. Roma Street – (50mm native plants on 12 hectares.) ******
10. Brisbane – Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha (60mm native plants and increasing on 52 hectares.) ******      
11. Sherwood – Sherwood Arboretum (10mm native plants on 12 hectares.)    
12. Capalaba – Indigiscapes (98mm native plants on 14.5 hectares. Specializing in local native plants with 14 small backyard demonstration garden layouts.) ******
13. Toowoomba – Queens Park Gardens – Toowoomba (10mm native plants on 26.3 hectares.)      
14. Toowoomba – Laurel Bank Park (100mm native plants on 4.4 hectares.)
15.  Gayndah – Gayndah Botanical Gardens & Pioneer Place (98mm native plants on 8.33 hectares.) 
16. Glenmorgan – Myall Park Botanic Garden (100mm native plants on 128 hectares.) ******      
17. Goondiwindi – Goondiwindi Botanic Gardens of the Western Woodlands (100mm native plants on 25 hectares.)     
18. Maroochydore – Maroochy Regional Bushland Botanic Garden – Tanawha (100mm native plants on 112 hectares.)   
19. Yandina – Fairhill Native Plants & Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 4 hectares.) ******  
20. Cooroy – Lake McDonald Botanic Gardens (50mm native plants on 8 hectares.) 
21. Hervey Bay – Great Sandy Region Botanic Gardens (80mm native plants on 26 hectares.)      
22. Bundaberg – Bundaberg Botanic Gardens (90mm native plants on 27 hectares.)   
23. Gladstone – Tondoon Botanic Gardens (90mm native plants on 83 hectares.) 
24. Rockhampton – Rockhampton Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 40 hectares.)      
25. Rockhampton – Kershaw Gardens (85mm native plants on 38.5 hectares.) ******   
26. Emerald – Emerald Botanic Gardens (75mm native plants on 42 hectares.) 
27. Mackay – Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens (Formerly known as The Lagoons. 80mm native plants on 48 hectares.) ******  
28. Townsville -Queens Gardens (10mm native plants on 4 hectares. Specializing in traditional cottage gardens.) ******
29. Townsville – Dan Gleeson Memorial Gardens (50mm native tropical plants on 5 hectares) ******  
30. Townsville – Townsville Palmatum (50mm native plants on 16 hectares. Specializes in threatened tropical plants of the world) ******
31. Townsville – Anderson Park (80mm native plants on 27 hectares.) ******
32. Ingham – Ingham Memorial Botanical Gardens (50mm native plants on 5.5 hectares.) 
33. Atherton – Atherton Arboretum (100mm native plants on 3 hectares.)    
34. Cairns – Flecker Botanical Gardens (10mm native plants on 38 hectares.) ******
35. Mossman – The Botanical Ark (?????mm native plants on ????? hectares. Private specialize in wild survival foods etc from primitive all areas of the world.)  
36. Alexandra Bay – Daintree Wilderness Refugium (90mm native plants from the Daintree area on 8 hectares.)   
37. Cooktown – Cooktown Botanic Gardens (80mm native plants on 62 hectares. Specializing in History especially from 1776 onwards.) 
38. Alice Springs – Pitchi Ritchi Sanctuary (100mm Native plants on ????? hectares.) ****** (Visited in 1973)
39. Alice Springs – Olive Pink Botanic Garden (95mm Native plants on 16 hectares of land formally started by Miss Olive Pink who dedicated her last 20 years to the flora of central Australia.) ****** 
40. Alice Springs – Desert Park (100mm native plants on 52 hectares.)   
41. Palmerston – George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 41 hectares.)      
42. Derby – Derby Botanic Gardens (40mm native plants on 0.375 hectares.) 
43. Roleystone – Araluen Botanical Park (20mm native plants on 59 hectares.)
44. Perth – Kings Park and Botanic Garden (90mm native plants on 400 hectares.)  ******
45. Narrogin – Dryandra Inland Arboretum (100mm native plants on 6 hectares.) 
46. Pemberton – Forest Arboretum (60mm native plants on 9 hectares.) 
47. Pemberton – Big Brook Forest Arboretum (80mm native plants on 316 hectares.) 
48. Albany – Mount Martin Regional Botanic Park (100mm native plants on 403 hectares.)      
49. Esperence – Esperance (Helms) Exotic & Indigenous Arboretum (20mm native plants on 28 hectares.)    
50. Kalgoorlie – Coolgardie Arboretum (100mm native plants on 30 hectares.)
51. Kalgoorlie – Kalgoorlie Arboretum (100mm native plants on 26.5 hectares.)
52. Roxby Downs – Roxby Downs Arboretum (95mm+ native plants on 2997 hectares.)
53. Port Augusta – Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden (100mm native plants on 250 hectares.)   
54. Terowei – Terowie Arid Lands Botanical Garden (100mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 
55. Nuriootpa – Barossa Bushgardens – Nuriootpa (100mm native plants on 7 hectares.) 
56. Adelaide – Beechwood Heritage Garden (10mm native plants on 4 hectares.)
57. Adelaide – Adelaide Botanic Garden (25mm native plants on 41 hectares.) 
58. Piccadilly – Mount Lofty Botanic Garden – Piccadilly (15mm native plants on 98 hectares.)      
59. Blackwood – Wittunga Botanic Garden (50mm native plants on 14 hectares.) 
60. Adelaide University – Waite Arboretum (60mm native plants on 30 hectares.) 
61. Adelaide – Black Hill Flora Centre (100mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 
62. Victor Harbour – Nangawooka Flora Park – Victor Harbour (80mm native plants on 2 hectares.)   
63. Hind Marsh Island – Currency Creek Arboretum (100mm native plants on 32 hectares. Dean is an avid collector of Eucalyptus.)  ******
64. Lake Albert – Nindethana (100mm native plants on 12 hectares.) 
65. Buronga – North of Mildura Australian Inland Botanic Gardens (Was Sunraysia Oasis Botanical Gardens. 80mm native plants on 152 hectares.) 65
66. Horsham – Horsham Rural City Council Botanic Gardens (50mm native plants on 3.5 hectares.)   
67. Hamilton – Hamilton Botanic Gardens – Victoria (10mm native plants on 4 hectares.) 
68. Dimboola – Wail Arbortorium (100mm native plants on 13 hectares.)
69. Penshurst – Penshurst Botanic Gardens – Penshurst  (15mm native plants on 4 hectares.)     
70. Portland – Portland Botanical Gardens (20mm native plants on 3.2 hectares.) 
71. Port Fairy – Port Fairy Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 9 hectares.) 
72. Warrambool – Warrnambool Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 8 hectares.) 
73. Camberdown – Camberdown Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 8 hectares.) 
74. Colac – Colac Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 12 hectares.)
75. Geelong – Geelong Botanic Gardens (20mm native plants on 7 hectares.) 
76. Ballarat – Ballarat Botanical Gardens (10mm native plants on 20 hectares.)     
77. Buninyong – Buninyong Botanic Gardens (20mm native plants on 2 hectares.) 
78. Daylesford – Wombat Hill Botanical Gardens (1mm native plants on 11 hectares.)
79. Kyneton – Kyneton Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 15 hectares.) 
80. Bendigo – White Hills Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 25 hectares.) 
81. Castlemaine – Castlemaine Botanic Gardens – Castlemaine (10mm native plants on 23.8 hectares.)   
82. Malmsbury – Malmsbury Botanical Gardens (10mm native plants on 6.3 hectares.) 
83. Bendigo – Emu Creek Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 8 hectares.)
84. Benalla – Benalla Botanical Gardens (25mm native plants on 5 hectares.)
85. Wangarratta – Warby Ranges (100mm native plants on 0.5 hectares.) 
86. Albury – Albury Botanic Gardens. (15mm Native plants on 4 hectares. Traditional garden settings utilizing native plants on 4 hectares)   
87. Gisborne – Gisborne Botanic Gardens (5mm native plants on 4 hectares.)
88. Keilor – Keilor Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 10 hectares.)   
89. Melbourne – Royal Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 38.9 hectares.) 
90. Melbourne – St Kilda Botanic Gardens (10mm native plants on 6.5 hectares.) 
91. Werribee Park – The Mansion Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 120 hectares.)      
92. Williamstown – Williamstown Botanic Gardens (0mm native plants on 4.5 hectares.)
93. Hobart – Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens (70mm native plants on 13.5 hectares.)
94. Buckland – Tasmanian Bushland Garden (??????mm native plants on ???????? hectares.)      
95. Kalorama – Karwarra Australian Plant Garden (100mmnative plants on 2 hectares) 
96. Invermay – Heritage Forest (20mm native plants on 28 hectares.)   
97. Launceston – Cliff Grounds Reserve (20mm native plants on 152 hectares.) 
98. Devonport – The Tasmanian Arboretum (30mm native plants on 58 hectares.) 
99. Berwick – Wilson Botanic Park (30mm native plants on 39 hectares.) 
100. Yarra Ranges – Karrawarra Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 2 hectares.) 
101. Sherbrooke – George Tindale Memorial Gardens (20mm native plants on 3.5 hectares.) 
102. Narre Warren Wilson Botanic Park (30mm native plants on 36 hectares.)    
103. Frankston – George Pentland Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 7.5 hectares.) 
104. Cranborne – Royal Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 363 hectares.)   
105. Kalimna – East Gippsland Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 2 hectares.) 
106. Sale – Sale Botanic Gardens (0mm native plants on 4.5 hectares.) 
107. Batemans Bay – Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens. (100mm native plants on 42 hectares. Specializing in Local Native plants from the central southern coast of New South Wales.) 
108. Acton – Australian National Botanic Gardens. (90mm native plants on 90 hectares. Largest collection of Australian Natives in the world.) ******  
109. Yarralumla – Lindsay Pryor National Arboretum. (??mm native plants on ?? hectares)     
110. Tumit – Pilot Hill Arboretum (0mm native plants on 3 hectares)
111. Wagga Wagga – Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 10 hectares.) 
112. Jervis Bay – Booderee National Park and Botanic Gardens (100mm native plants on 80 hectares. Formerly Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens. Specializes in Aboriginal food plants and those plants used in their daily lives.  Entry fee $10:00 $5:00 concession)    
113. Shoalhaven – Waraipendi Gardens (1005 native plants on ????? hectares) 
114. Picton – Picton Botanical Gardens. (50mm native plants on 4.1 hectares.)   
115. Wollongong – Wollongong Botanic Garden (60mm native plants on 29 hectares.) 
116. Bargo – Wirrimbirra Field Study Centre and Sanctuary (100mm native plants on 90 hectares.)   
117. Bulli / Illawarra – Grevillea Park. (100mm native plants on 15 hectares specializing in Proteaceae. $5.00 an adult.) ******
118. Sutherland – E G Waterhouse National Camellia Gardens. (Specializing in Camelias within a native background) 
119. Sutherland – Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve.          (100mm Australian native plants on 2.2 hectares.)    
120. Sydney – Royal Botanic Gardens (30mm native plants on 30 hectares.) 
121. Carlingford – Galaringi Botanic Parkland. (100mm Native privately owned on 23 hectares.)       
122. Bankstown – Sylvan Grove Native Garden – Picnic Point (100mm native plants on 1.5 hectares.)   
123. Auburn – Auburn Botanical Gardens. (15mm Native plants on 9.7 hectares. Specializing in different microclimate gardens.)
124. Dee Why – Stony Range Flora Reserve (100mm native gardens on 3.3 hectares. Entry fee 50 cents or donation.)      
125. Glenbrook – Glenbrook Native Plant Reserve. (100mm native plants on 2 hectares. Specializes in small native shrubs)   
126. St Ives – Ku-Ring-Gai Wildflower Garden. (100mm native plants on 123 hectares. Specializing in wildflowers and sandstone plants from the region.)
127. Mount Annan – Mount Annan Botanic Garden. (100mm native plants on 416 hectares. A large collection comprising over 4,000 Australian Natives.)
128. Blue Mountains – Mount Tomah Botanic Garden. (Traditional garden using a mixture of native and exotic on 4 hectares) ****** 
129. Mount Tomah – Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens (14mm native plants on 28 hectares)
130. Orange – Cook Park. (??mm Native plants on ?? hectares)    
131. Mumbil – Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum. (Specializing in Native rainforest trees, ferns and mint bushes)
132. Orange – Orange Botanic Gardens. (50mm native plants on 17 hectares. Mixture of Native and exotic plants.) ******    
133. Cowra – Cowra Japanese Garden. (Japanese style with mainly plants native to Asia.)
134. Wellington – Burrendong Botanic Gardens and Arbortorium (100mm native plants on 167 hectares.)    
135. Dubbo – Elizabeth Park. (5mm native plants on 10 hectares.)
136. Tamworth – Tamworth Regional Botanic Garden (75mm native plants on 28 hectares.)
137. Woolomin – Dulegal Native Plant Arboretum. (100mm threatened native plants on 20 hectares)    
138. Newcastle – Hunter Region Botanic Gardens. (80mm native plants on 133 hectares. Specializing in natives from right across Australia.) 
139. Coomba Park – Demesne Farm Minor Arboretum. (90mm Native privately owned on 5 hectares. $2.00 adult)      
140. Bellingen – Bellingen Hospital Grounds. (Many ancient well developed trees.) ******
141. Coffs Harbour – North Coast Regional Botanic Garden. (70mm native plants on 20 hectares. Specializing in rare & endangered natives from Northern New South Wales and continental plants.) ******
142. Tibooburra – Tibooburra Outback Botanic Gardens (While registered there appears to be no available data on the gardens except that it is 100mm native.) 
143. Lord Howe Island – Lord Howe Island Botanic Gardens. (99mm indigenous plants from Lord Howe Island on 2 hectares.)
144. Norfolk Island – Norfolk Island Botanic Gardens. (Specializing in native plants from Norfolk Island on 5.5 hectares.) 

Further Comments from Members:

All information is included in good faith and has been thoroughly researched prior to printing. The website or the author does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy of any information on these pages, nor does the website or the author accept any responsibility for any loss arising from the use of the information found within. The views and opinions are strictly those of the author or those members who chose to actively participate in the contents herein.

“Hi reader, it seems you use The Bible of Botany a lot. That’s great as we have great pleasure in bringing it to you! It’s a little awkward for us to ask, but our first aim is to purchase land approximately 1,600 hectares to link several parcels of N.P. into one at The Pinnacles NSW Australia, but we need your help. We’re not salespeople. We’re amateur botanists who have dedicated over 30 years to saving the environment in a practical way. We depend on donations to reach our goal. If you donate just $5, the price of your coffee this Sunday, We can help to keep the planet alive in a real way and continue to bring you regular updates and features on Australian plants all in one Botanical Bible. Any support is greatly appreciated. Thank you.”

In the spirit of reconciliation we acknowledge the Bundjalung, Gumbaynggirr and Yaegl and all aboriginal nations throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their Elders past, present and future for the pleasures we have gained.