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The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden, originally known as the Mount Tomah Botanical Garden, is a public botanic garden located approximately west of the
The garden was established in 1972. It includes an additional of land dedicated to conservation. The garden is , and it specializes in cool-climate plants that would not grow well in Sydney's warmer conditions. The gardens are managed by the Botanic Gardens Trust trading the Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands, that also has responsibility for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and the
Sydney central business district
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at in the Blue Mountains, in New South Wales, Australia
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. The garden is heritage-listed
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and is located on the boundary of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Greater Blue Mountains Area and can be accessed via the Bells Line of Road.
Description
The garden was established in 1972. It includes an additional of land dedicated to conservation. The garden is , and it specializes in cool-climate plants that would not grow well in Sydney's warmer conditions. The gardens are managed by the Botanic Gardens Trust trading the Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands, that also has responsibility for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney and the Australian Botanic Garden
The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan is a botanical garden located in a hilly area of the South-western Sydney, southwestern Sydney suburb of , between Campbelltown, New South Wales, Campbelltown and Camden, New South Wales, Camden, New So ...
at . The Trust is a division of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.
History
The land was originally granted to Susannah Bowen, the mother of George M. C. Bowen, in 1830. She had arrived in the colony in 1828.See also
* Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan * Auburn Botanical Gardens *Macquarie Culvert
The Macquarie Culvert is a double brick culvert under the original Mrs Macquarie's Road (also known as Lady Macquarie's Road) in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney, Australia. The culvert was probably built at the same time as the original roa ...
* National Herbarium of New South Wales
* Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney
* The Domain, Sydney
References
External links
* Blue Mountains Botanic Garden Botanical gardens in New South Wales 1972 establishments in Australia Tourist attractions in the Blue Mountains (New South Wales) {{Australia-garden-stub