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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.
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 NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, an agency of the Government of New South Wales. The Domain is used as a venue for outdoor concerts, open-air events ...
2.1 Location of Sydney. ... 2.4.7 Parks and gardens in Sydney. ... Bicentennial Park The Royal Botanic Garden View across Queen's Square. Parks in Sydney.
Completing Sydney's wide array of green spaces, the leader is the Royal Botanic Garden, with its large amount of green spaces, lush plants and colourful flowers. Although Sydney developed organically after the arrival of the First Fleet , the city parks and open spaces were a part of early town planning to provide relief from the bustle and ...
There are more than 140 botanical gardens in Australia, some like the Australian National Botanic Gardens have collections consisting entirely of Australian native and endemic species; most have a collection that include plants from around the world.
Botanic Gardens Botanic Gardens Sydney NSW TGGA [2] No. 79 pp. 196–201 Public Royal Botanic Garden; Royal Botanic Garden and the Domain; Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney – Wikipedia. Temperate, Cool climate Associated Gardens: Mount Annan Botanic Garden; Mount Tomah Botanic Garden (Blue Mountains)
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 Macquarie Culvert is a double brick culvert under the original Mrs Macquarie's Road (also known as Lady Macquarie's Road [1]) in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia. [2] The culvert was probably built at the same time as the original road, between 1813 and 1816, [1] making it almost certainly the oldest bridge in Australia. [2]