The Benalla Botanic Gardens, is a heritage listed
botanic garden
A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...
located in
Benalla
Benalla
is a small city located on the Broken River gateway to the High Country north-eastern region of Victoria, Australia, about north east of the state capital Melbourne. At the the population was 10,822.
It is the administrative cent ...
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Victoria
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Australia. The gardens, originally designed by Alfred Sangwell in 1886, was listed on the
Register of the National Estate in 1995. The gardens include a rose garden established in 1959, which is the focus of the annual Benalla Rose Festival.
Amongst the extensive mature tree collection are 3 specimens of ''
Ulmus x viminalis
The field elm cultivar ''Ulmus minor'' 'Viminalis' (:'willow-like'), occasionally referred to as the twiggy field elm, was raised by Masters in 1817, and listed in 1831 as ''U. campestris viminalis'', without description. Loudon added a gene ...
'' which are the only specimens of this particular elm cultivar in Australia and are listed on the
National Trust of Australia's significant tree register.
References
Botanical gardens in Victoria (state)
1886 establishments in Australia
Victorian places listed on the defunct Register of the National Estate
Victorian Heritage Register
Victorian Heritage Register Hume (region)
Rural City of Benalla
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