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The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, originally known as the Mount Tomah Botanical Garden, is a 28-hectare (69-acre) public botanic garden located approximately 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of the Sydney central business district at Mount Tomah in the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, Australia.
The village of Mount Tomah is located approximately 40 kilometres (25 mi) west of Richmond, on the Bells Line of Road. Its most distinguished feature, the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, is located on the north side of that road. The garden was established in 1972. Apart from the gardens, the area is a low-density residential area.
Ivanhoe Park Botanic Garden - Manly, New South Wales; Joseph Banks Native Plants Reserve, Kareela - Sutherland; Ku-ring-gai Wildflower Garden - St Ives; Mayfield Garden - Oberon; Mount Annan Botanic Garden - Mount Annan; Mount Tomah Botanic Garden - Blue Mountains; North Coast Regional Botanic Garden - Coffs Harbour; Orange Botanic Gardens - Orange
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)
As director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney, Entwisle managed Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens, the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden, in the Blue Mountains and the Mount Annan Botanic Garden, near Camden, [13] and at Kew, he was responsible for Kew Gardens, Wakehurst Place, and the Millennium Seed Bank. [13]
Gardens of Stone National Park; Glenbrook, New South Wales; Glenbrook rail accident; Glenbrook railway station; Glenbrook Tunnel (1892) Glenbrook Tunnel (1913) Glen Davis, New South Wales; Glen Davis Shale Oil Works; Govetts Leap Falls; Greater Blue Mountains Area; Greaves Creek Dam; Grose River; Grose Valley
Bowen is remembered by the naming of Bowenfels (originally known as Bowen's Hollow), Bowen Mountain, Bowen’s Creek near Mount Irvine, [22] and the Parish of Bowen, all in the Blue Mountains area. Bowen's mother's former land, at Mount Tomah, is now the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden. [23] His house, 'Bowen Mount', burnt down in a fire in 1914.
Vegetation on these basalt based soils are associated with rainforest, moist eucalyptus forest and the tourist attraction gardens at Mount Wilson and the Blue Mountains Botanic Garden. These basalt cap soils have a higher level of moisture retention and fertility than the more common sandstone based soils in the Blue Mountains. [5]