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.
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.
• 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.
COMMON NAME |
BOTANIC NAME |
Knife-leaf Wattle |
Acacia cultriformis |
Deane’s Wattle |
Acacia deanei |
Western Silver Wattle |
Acacia decora |
Streaked Wattle |
Acacia lineata |
Weeping Myall |
Acacia pendula |
Mudgee Wattle |
Acacia spectabilis |
Awl-leaved Wattle |
Acacia subulata |
Spur-wing wattle |
Acacia triptera |
Varnish Wattle |
Acacia verniciflua |
She-oak |
Allocasuarina diminuta |
Slender Bamboo Grass |
Austrostipa verticillata |
Red-leg Grass |
Bothriochloa macra |
Kurrajong |
Brachychiton populneus |
White Cypress Pine |
Callitris glaucophylla |
Black Cypress Pine |
Callitris endlicheri |
Yellow Buttons |
Chrysocephalum apiculatum |
Tall Sedge |
Carex appressa |
River She-ak |
Casuarina cunninghamiana |
Umbrella Sedge |
Cyperus exaltatus |
Blue-anther Flax-lily |
Dianella revoluta |
Hop Bush |
Dodonaea cuneata |
Common Spikerush |
Eleocharis acuta |
Common Wheat Grass |
Elymus scaber |
Green Mallee |
Eucalyptus viridis |
Ironbark |
Eucalyptus sideroxylon |
Wite Box |
Eucalyptus albens |
Blakelys Red Gum |
Eucalyptus blakelyi |
False Sarsaparilla |
Hardenbergia violacea |
Common Rush |
Juncus usitatus |
Violet Kunzea |
Kunzea parvifolia |
Tantoon |
Leptospermum polygalifolium |
Wattle Mat-rush |
Lomandra filiformis |
Slender Mat-rush |
Lomandra hystrix |
Spiny-headed Mat-rush |
Lomandra longifolia |
Thyme-leaf Honey Myrtle |
Melaleuca thymifolia |
Prickly Paperbark |
Melaleuca styphelioides |
Winter Apple, Amulla |
Eremophila (Myoporum) debile |
Grey Tussock Grass |
Poa seiberiana |
Silver Cassia |
Senna artemisioides |
Nodding Blue Lilly |
Stypandra glauca |
Kangaroo Grass |
Themeda australis |
Bronze-backed Bluebell |
Wahlenbergia luteola |
Forest Grass Tree |
Xanthorrhoea johnsonii |
Sticky Everlasting |
Xerochrysum viscosum |