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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria (RBGV) are botanic gardens across two sites–Melbourne and Cranbourne. [1] Melbourne Gardens was founded in 1846 when land was reserved on the south side of the Yarra River for a new botanic garden. It extends across 38 hectares (94 acres) [2] that slope to the river with trees, garden beds, lakes and lawns.
The Carlton Gardens is a UNESCO World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne, Australia. A popular picnic and barbecue area, the heritage-listed Carlton Gardens are home to an array of wildlife, including brushtail possums .
The Treasury Gardens consist of 5.8 hectares (14 acres) on the south-eastern side of the Melbourne central business district, East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. The gardens are bounded by Wellington Parade, Spring Street , Treasury Place, and by the Fitzroy Gardens across Lansdowne street to the west.
Melbourne is Australia's second largest city and widely considered to be a garden city, with Victoria being nicknamed "the Garden State". [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Renowned as one of the most livable cities in the world , there is an abundance of parks , gardens and green belts close to the CBD with a variety of common and rare plant species amid landscaped ...
[130] [131] [132] There is an abundance of parks and gardens in Melbourne, [133] many close to the CBD with a variety of common and rare plant species amid landscaped vistas, pedestrian pathways and tree-lined avenues. Melbourne's parks are often considered the best public parks in all of Australia's major cities. [134]
An avenue of English Elms in the Gardens. The most notable feature of the Gardens is the trees that line many of the pathways. The land was originally swampy with a creek draining into the Yarra River. The gardens were initially designed by Clement Hodgkinson and planted by park gardener, James Sinclair, as a dense woodland with meandering ...
Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is a botanical garden incorporating two separate sites in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, namely the Melbourne Gardens and Cranbourne Gardens. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Aerial view of the Carlton Gardens, where the building is located. The Royal Exhibition Building is a UNESCO World Heritage-listed building in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, built in 1879–1880 as part of the international exhibition movement, which presented over 50 exhibitions between 1851 and 1915 around the globe.