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Geelong Botanic Gardens to allow mains water to be used, this was mainly due to the fact that the gardens house heritage trees and collections of plants used for scientific
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Geelong botanic gardens and its surrounding Eastern Park are listed on the Victorian Heritage Register for their vast assortment of plant life. Furthermore, the gardens also contain singular trees listed under the National Trust of Australia (Victoria) Register of Significant Trees, as well as
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Despite being cleared for public use in 1850, a committee of management wasn't formed until 1852, and its first curator wasn't appointed until 1857. The first appointed curator was a 19th-century explorer known as Daniel Bunce who tended to it for 14 years before his death in 1872. In that time,
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Geelong Botanic Gardens is home to plants from around the world, their water requirements can differ vastly. Furthermore, the Geelong Botanic gardens is situated in the middle of eastern park, a large public space close to the Geelong waterfront and home to a vast
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Geelong Botanic Gardens can be traced back to as early as 1850, the land it was built upon has an even richer history. This history of the land dates back over 25,000 to 60,000 years ago when it was under the care of the
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1887, taking the total length to 300 feet (91 meters). By 1920 the ferns were becoming overgrown, and the fernery was demolished some time after World War II because the wooden structure was falling into disrepair.
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landscape surrounding the gardens has a much lower water requirement then a majority of the imported and indigenous plants which reside within its walls, as these plants have originated from differing
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system that would connect to the 250,000 litre storage tanks that would be placed at the edge of the gardens. While this reconstruction was underway, all plant life previously connected to the old
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Eastern Park. The botanic gardens were later isolated to a fenced-off area in the centre of the park.
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Queensland Bottle Trees (
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