Royal Botanic Gardens (Sydney)

The Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia, is the largest of the three botanical gardens of Sydney. The garden is open daily and admission is free.

Location

The botanical garden overlooks the Farm Cove and is located directly east of the Sydney Opera House and Circular Quay. At the southern end it is limited by the Cahill Expressway. Its area is about 30 hectares.

History

The first farm in Australia, erected in 1788 at the Farm Cove. Although the court was not successful, the ground has since been built and thus made more fertile.

The botanical garden was founded in 1816 at this point, he was a part of the garden of the governor. With the first botanist of the fledgling colony, Charles Frazer, who grew nearly 3000 plants from Great Britain succeed in 1817 began a long history of collecting and study of plants. The botanical garden of Sydney is the oldest scientific institution in Australia and played an important role in the colonization of plants from other regions. Charles Moore, director of 1848-96 has, much to the development of the botanical garden, as we know it today, contributed. So he solved the problems surrounding poor soil, water and lack of money.

1862, the first zoo in Sydney was opened in the middle of the botanical garden. 1879 a fairly large part of the garden for the construction of the Garden Exhibition Palace was used during the Sydney International Exhibition ( 1879) impressed more than one million visitors with a 30-meter high dome. The building was destroyed in 1882 by fire. By the end of the 19th century, the garden was well established.

During the First World War and especially the depression of the 1930s, the botanical garden fell into disrepair. It was not until 1945, the garden under director Robert Anderson was rebuilt. Since 1959, the garden adds the suffix ' Royal '. Since 1965, many parts of the garden was redesigned and expanded, such as the tropical greenhouse, the rose garden, oriental garden, fern garden and many more. Today, the botanical garden of the Friends of the Royal Botanic Gardens and the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation is supported.

The final scene of The Matrix Revolutions was taken in the Botanic Gardens Sydney.

Areas

• Begonia Garden
• Cadi Jam Ora - First Encounters: plants that originally grew on the grounds of the botanical garden
• Government House Grounds
• Herb Garden
• HSBC Oriental Garden
• Walk through the rainforest
• Mrs Macquarie's walk through the bushland
• Old Mill Garden & Greenway Terrace
• Palm grove
• Garden of the Pioneers
• Collection of rare and endangered plants
• Rock garden with native plants
• Rose Garden
• Succulent garden
• Fern garden
• Tropical House
• Wollemia ( Wollemia nobilis) - one of the oldest and rarest plants in the world. Less than 100 free -growing trees are in the Blue Mountains.