Biodiversity Garden

The Biodiversity Garden has been designed to display local plants in settings that replicate their natural habitats. Visitors have the opportunity to examine the fascinating adaptations that local plants have evolved to survive in our sometimes harsh climate. 

Attracted by the food, refuge and habitat provided by the native plants, the local native birds flock to this garden making it one of the best places for bird watching.

HISTORY

The Biodiversity Garden was opened in 2006 and was designed to be a living model of the major vegetation communities that thrived in this region before European settlement. The trails take visitors through grassy white box woodlands, past wetlands and climbs up a rocky, volcanic slope via a boardwalk. The boardwalk climb is not accessible by wheelchairs.

ELEMENTS OF THE GARDEN INCLUDE:

• A cross section of the regions vegetation communities with interpretative signage that include:
    o Grassy Box Woodland – an Endangered Ecological Community
    o A billabong and wetlands with reed and sedge beds
    o Stands of sheoaks, redgums green mallee, ironbark and red stringy bark
• A boardwalk up to the top of the hill. Please note that he boardwalk is not wheelchair accessible.
• Over 48 species of local plants.

PLANTS IN THE GARDEN INCLUDE: