Ballarat Botanical Gardens
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into 3 distinct zones. The central Botanical Gardens preserve the 'gardenesque' style of the Victorian pleasure garden. On either side there are open parkland buffers known as the North and South Gardens.
[edit] Features
The gardens featre a large modern conservatory, museum, war memorial, water feature and heritage pavillion. The pavillion houses examples of statuary that were once scattered around the park, but brought indoors due to vandalism in the 1980s.
A collection of bronze portraits of all 25 Australian Prime Ministers is set within the magnificent Horse Chestnut Avenue. One of the founding fathers of Federation was Alfred Deakin who was the first Federal Member for Ballarat and the second Prime Minister.
 |
This Victorian geography article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
