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The Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney is a heritage-listed major 30-hectare (74-acre) botanical garden, event venue and public recreation area located at Farm Cove on the eastern fringe of the Sydney central business district, in the City of Sydney local government area of New South Wales, Australia.
The kitchen garden is now part of the Royal Botanic Gardens. [1] Official plantings. To the west of the driveway is a large paperbark (Melaleuca leucadendra) and peppermint (Eucalyptus nicholli) planted by Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh in 1954 during the first visit of a reigning monarch to Australia. [1]
The Domain is a heritage-listed 34-hectare (84-acre) area of open space on the eastern fringe of the Sydney central business district, Australia. [1] Separating the central business district from Woolloomooloo, The Domain adjoins the Royal Botanic Garden and is managed by The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust, a division of the Office of Environment & Heritage.
The National Herbarium of New South Wales was established in 1853. The Herbarium has a collection of more than 1.4 million plant specimens, making it the second largest collection of pressed, dried plant specimens in Australia, [1] including scientific and historically significant collections and samples of Australian flora gathered by Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander during the voyage of HMS ...
The Royal Botanic Garden in Sydney is the second-oldest botanic garden in the southern hemisphere. Hyde Park contains well-kept gardens and approximately 580 trees; a mixture of Moreton Bay figs, palms and other varieties. It is famed for its magnificent fig tree lined avenues, a peaceful haven in the business heart of the city.
He was New South Wales’ Government Botanist in 2007 and 2008, [8] [9] and for eight years was the executive director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney (2003–2011). [ 10 ] [ 11 ] Subsequently, he was director of Conservation, Living Collections and Estates, Kew, London from 2011, [ 12 ] [ 13 ] and from 2013 to 2023 he was director and ...
The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan is a 416-hectare (1,030-acre) botanical garden located in a hilly area of the southwestern Sydney suburb of Mount Annan, between Campbelltown and Camden, New South Wales. It is the largest botanical garden in Australia, specializing in native plants, with a collection of over 4000 species.
Mrs Macquarie's Chair (also known as Lady Macquarie's Chair [1]) is an exposed sandstone rock cut into the shape of a bench, on a peninsula in Sydney Harbour.It was hand carved by convicts in 1810, for Elizabeth Macquarie, the wife of Major-General Lachlan Macquarie, Governor of New South Wales.