The

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Botanic Gardens are located in

Rove Rove may refer to: Places * Le Rove, a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in southern France * Rove, Honiara, a suburb of Honiara, Solomon Islands * Rove, Vojnik, a settlement in the hills east of Frankolovo in the Municipality of Vojnik ...

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. They are about west of the main center off the Tandai Highway on Garden Drive (opposite the Iron Bottom Sound Hotel). Garden Drive meanders around the prison complex and is just past the Solomon Islands Broadcasting buildings. The Rove Botanical Gardens is located immediately behind th
Rove Prison
Once a showpiece of Whitmore's collection and Geoff Dennis gardening the gardens deteriorated in the 1980s. Following
publication by C.P Henderson and I.R Hancock
in 1988, a

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volunteer David Glenny, Geoff Dennis, and Myknee Qusa Sirikolo rehabilitated the collections in 1990.

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