The Geelong Botanic Gardens is a Botanical garden in the city of Geelong, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are located within Eastern Park on the eastern outskirts of the central business district. The gardens were established in 1851 and are the oldest botanic gardens in Australia. Inside the United States Botanic Garden Inside the Rio de Janeiro Botanic Garden (Brazil), 1890 Botanical gardens (in Latin, hortus botanicus) grow a wide variety of plants primarily categorized and documented for scientific purposes, but also for the enjoyment and education of visitors, a consideration that has become essential to... Moorabool St, Geelong A view of Corio Bay from Moorabool Street. ... The central business district of Melbourne, Australia. ...
This is a garden that is using plants that are reliable in dry temperate climates, and that is a very important consideration today with water conservation such a big issue in many parts of Australia.
Geelong has just come out of four years of very serious drought, and that was the driving force to come up with the planting theme of low, or no water horticulture.
This new garden may be very different to what is expected of botanicgardens, but gardens should break the boundaries and challenge our perceptions.
Geelong'sbotanicgardens have been doubled in size to about nine hectares with the addition of a sunken "21st century" garden designed to complement the existing 19th century gardens.
The new garden showcases plants indigenous to the Geelong region as well as species from the arid zones of Australia, South America and southern Africa, providing a stark contrast to the lush green lawns and European species contained in the old gardens.
Although the old botanicgardens and the 21st century garden occupy about the same space, the latest garden uses only about 5 per cent of the water needed for the old.
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