Corporate Body

Mount Lofty Botanic Garden (1977 - )

State of South Australia

From
1977
Crafers, South Australia, Australia
Functions
Botanic garden, Conservation or Environment and Horticulture
Website
https://www.botanicgardens.sa.gov.au/visit/mount-lofty-botanic-garden

Summary

Mount Lofty Botanic Garden is one of two regional gardens of the Adelaide Botanic Garden (ABG). Located in the Mount Lofty Ranges, it is a cool-climate garden, the idea for such a garden having first been mooted in 1911. Land was purchased in 1958 and the Garden was opened to the public in 1977. The Garden showcases plants from temperate regions, including New Zealand, China and the Himalayas, New Guinea and Australia. Special collections include rhododendrons, flowering cherries and a fern gully. Much of the original planning was the work of Noel Lothian, Director of the ABG 1948 - 1980. The Garden was damaged in severe bushfires in 1983. Since then there have been continued efforts to restore and upgrade the Garden.

Published resources

Books

  • Adelaide Botanic Gardens, Catalogue of plants 2010: Adelaide, Mount Lofty and Wittunga Botanic Gardens (Adelaide: Board of the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium, 2010), 297 pp. Details
  • Lethelan, Taylor Cullity, Botanic Gardens of Adelaide: Draft Site Master Plan Report, Adelaide Botanic Garden and Botanic Park, Mt Lofty Botanic Garden (Adelaide: Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, 2005), 189 leaves pp. Details

Helen Cohn

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