The Gardens is an inner suburb of the city of Darwin,

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. It is the traditional country and waterways of the

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History

The suburb's name derives from the

George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens The George Brown Darwin Botanic Gardens is a botanical garden located 2 km north of the CBD of Darwin, Northern Territory, Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. History The gardens were established on their present site in 1886; this wa ...

(named after the former Lord Mayor of Darwin who was formerly the gardens' curator) which began with the appointment of Maurice Holtze in 1878 and has grown to have one of the largest known collections of palms. Holtze used the Gardens area to investigate the possibility of growing sugar cane and cotton in the Territory. A small residential area adjacent to the Botanical Gardens was called Palmerston Gardens in 1968, but to avoid confusion with the 'new' Palmerston, the Palmerston appellation was discarded in 1984 when the suburb was officially named.

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