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Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens part 4

1 Comment »6th July, 2006; Category: Adelaide Hills, Botanic Gardens, Parks and Gardens, Photos

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

The lower part of the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens features a large artificial lake as shown in the above photo. Around this lake many people enjoy picnics and barbecues when they come to visit. A feature of this lake is the abundant bird life, especially the water birds.

Black Swan, Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

These beautiful gardens are a very pleasant half hour drive from the Adelaide CBD. It is worth visiting at different times of the year. Not everything flowers in the spring and summer months. In autumn the deciduous trees put on a magnificent display.

Related posts:

Butterfly in the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens part 3

1 Comment »5th July, 2006; Category: Adelaide Hills, Botanic Gardens, Parks and Gardens

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

Parks and gardens are usually very relaxing places to visit. We are fortunate living in South Australia because we have many beautiful and well kept parks and gardens. Foremost amongst those are the various sections of the historic Adelaide Botanic Gardens. Featured in the photos here, however, are sections of the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens, an easy half hour drive from the CBD.

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

On a visit last October we walked through the upper section of the gardens. We particularly enjoyed looking at the vast collection of rhododendrons in flower. They made a spectacular display on that magnificent spring day. In January of this year I had the delight of walking through naturally occurring rhododendron forests on my trek in the Everest region of Nepal. Unfortunately it was winter in Nepal, so I didn’t get to see them flowering.

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

To read my journal written on my trek in the Himalayas go the Archives section of this blog.

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens part 2

1 Comment »4th July, 2006; Category: Adelaide Hills, Botanic Gardens, Parks and Gardens

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

A beautiful part of the Adelaide Hills near the capital city of South Australia is the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens. On several recent visits I have taken quite a few photos which I am featuring here on my travel bog.

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

This garden is a part of the very historic Adelaide Botanic Gardens which are within ten minutes easy walk from the Adelaide CBD. A third section of the gardens is at Wittunga in another section of the Adelaide Hills.

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

To see more photos of this park and other places I have been visit my photo gallery here.

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

5 Comments »3rd July, 2006; Category: Adelaide Hills, Botanic Gardens, Parks and Gardens, South Australia

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

The parks and gardens of Adelaide are a delight to visit. We have, over the years, visited quite a number of them. One of our favourites would have to be the Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens. These gardens are under the care of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens which are right next to the CBD in Adelaide. The Mt Lofty section is in the wonderful Adelaide Hills, about a half hour very pleasant drive from the CBD.

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens

Steep Climb

The gardens have been established on the sides of Mt Lofty, the highest mountain near our state capital, Adelaide. There are two car parks, one at the top and another at the bottom. So the less fit will arrange to go with friends, leave one car at the lower level, drive to the top in the other car and walk down to the lower level. One then only has to walk downhill before repeating the process with the car shuffle in the reverse order.

Photos

Over coming days I plan to post more photos taken in these beautiful gardens.

Related articles:

Going Botanical (click here).

Mt Lofty Botanic Gardens part 2

Mt Lofty Botanic gardens part 3

Mt Lofty Botanic gardens part 4

Pangarinda Arboretum – more photos

2 Comments »2nd July, 2006; Category: Birds, Parks and Gardens, Photos, Plants

Red Capped Robin

One of favourite picnic spots is the Pangarinda Arboretum at Wellington, South Australia. Not only do we enjoy wandering around admiring the vast range of flowering Australian native plants, the bird life is also quite wonderful. Birds like the stunning Red Capped Robin shown above and the noisy New Holland Honeyeaters zipping around everywhere from flower to flower. I have seen beautiful Superb Blue Wrens, dainty and quite cheeky Zebra Finches and a male Golden Whistler lighting up the green-grey foliage of the bushes with his bright golden breast feathers.

Eucalyptus flowers

The arboretum is a very peaceful place to wander around, have a picnic or just sit quietly listening to and watching the passing parade of birds. The River Murray is only a few hundred metres away, complete with a new marina and housing estate, and there are many dairy farms in the nearby vacinity. Pelicans and Ibis are sometimes seen flying overhead, adding to the beauty of this special place.

Eucalyptus macrocarpa