Gardening in Australia

Gardening in Australia reflects the different styles of Australian art, including influences from Roman, Islamic, Italian, French, and English gardens. Modern Australian gardening emphasize gardens and their surroundings, focusing heavily on both urban horticulture and landscape architecture.

There are many historical parks and gardens in Australia.

Auburn Botanical Gardens, with a view of its lake

The first botanical gardens in Australia were founded early in the 19th century. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 1816; the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, 1818; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 1845; Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 1854; and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 1855. These were established essentially as colonial gardens of economic botany and acclimatisation.^[1] The Auburn Botanical Gardens, 1977, located in Sydney's western suburbs, are one of the popular and diverse botanical gardens in the Greater Western Sydney area.^[2]

Australian garden design

Early colonial gardens were normal Australian native gardening are popular now.^{[clarification needed]}^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7]

Common plants

Some common plants are:^[8]

Events

Floriade is the largest flower festival in the Southern Hemisphere, with over 400,000 visitors each year Almond Blossom Festival, Carnival of Flowers, Kings Park Festival, Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show and Tesselaar Tulip Festival are some others.

Organizations

Media coverage

A range of books, magazines^[10]^[11] and television programmes^[12] are dedicated to the topic in Australia.

Printed works

Australian House & Garden
Better Homes and Gardens
Gardening Australia
NZ Gardener
South Australian Vigneron and Gardeners' Manual

Television

References

^ Looker in Aitken & Looker 2002, p. 98
^ "Plan of Management for Auburn Botanic Gardens Precinct" (PDF). Retrieved 12 December 2012.
^ Jo Hambrett (28 July 2004). "Rise of the Australian Plant Garden" (PDF). Australian Native Plants Society.
^ "Creating a Contemporary Australian Garden". 10 September 2023.
^ "Features of Contemporary Australian Garden Design".
^ "Does an Australian garden style exist? |".
^ "Garden Style & Design Ideas: Native Australian Gardens". 18 July 2022.
^ "Australia's native plants - Tourism Australia". 23 May 2023.
^ "Scientists rush to save Australia's loneliest tree from extinction". ABC News. 30 September 2023.
^ https://www.isubscribe.com.au/magazines/home-&-garden/gardening/
^ https://www.magshop.com.au/Products/CategoryCenter/MAMGHM!GAR/Gardening-Magazine-Subscription
^ "Plant it and they will come: Why are gardening shows so popular?". 6 December 2021.