Corporate Body

Kings Park and Botanic Garden (1872 - )

From
1872
West Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Functions
Botanic garden, Conservation or Environment and Horticulture
Website
http://www.bgpa.wa.gov.au/
Location
West Perth, Western Australia

Summary

Most of the area now designated as Kings Park and Botanic Garden was set aside for 'public purposes' in 1829 by Lieutenant Governor James Stirling and Surveyor General John Septimus Roe. An additional 175 hectares was added in 1872, and in 1890 more land was added again, bringing it up to its current size of 400 hectares.

Further development of the park under John Forrest, Premier of Western Australia, occurred between 1892 to 1895, when the park was named 'The Perth Park'. The name was changed in 1901 to 'Kings Park' to mark the accession of King Edward VII to the British throne.

The Botanic Garden opened in 1965. With a focus on local flora, it shows the phenomenal diversity of Western Australian wildflowers growing nowhere else on earth.

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Published resources

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Books

  • Erickson, Dorothy, A Joy Forever: the Story of Kings Park and Botanic Garden (West Perth : Botanic Gardens and Parks Authority, 2009), 360 pp. Details

Resources

See also

  • Cowley, K. J.; West, J. G, Resources of Australian Herbaria: a Guide to Herbaria Located in Australia (Canberra: Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 1999), [84] pp. Details
  • Cowley, K. J.; West, J. G, Resources of Australian Herbaria [online], with Council of Heads of Australian Herbaria, Centre for Plant Biodiversity Research, 2002, http://www.anbg.gov.au/chah/resources/intro/index.html. Details
  • Keighery, Greg, 'Grosvenor Selk - Kings Park Curator and Volunteer', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter (2010), 6-8. Details

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