Adelaide Botanic Gardens 2


Here are a few more shots of some of my favourite parts of the Botanic Gardens. I remember as a little girl going there every school holidays with my mother and a group of here friends with their children. We would picnic on the lawns and play in a long paddling pool which was later closed down - I think perhaps during the days of the poliomyelitis scare.

This beautiful glasshouse is now under renovation, but it is lovely example of 19th century construction.


The fern house is more recent, but still full of beautiful plants





And even more recent is the glasshouse for tropical plants. Initially it was heated and misted to give it a humid tropical atmosphere, but that proved very expensive to run and  now it just relies on the sun.








More next time. As you can tell the Botanic Gardens is one of my favourite places to spend time.

Liz Needle

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  1. SandiMay 31, 2018 at 10:10 AM

    Gorgeous!

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  2. Phil SladeJune 1, 2018 at 12:35 AM

    That must be a beautiful and interesting place to visit Liz. You can read about our moss roads below. The roads aren't moss but rather, they are roads which cross our ancient mosses

    https://www.lancswt.org.uk/chat-moss-project

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