Ballarat Botanical Gardens
- Ballarat Botanical Gardens
The Ballarat Botanical Gardens Reserve, located on the western shore of picturesque Lake Wendouree, in Ballarat, Victoria, Australia, covers an area of 40 hectares which is divided into 3 distinct zones. The central Botanical Gardens reserve in the 'gardenesque' style of the Victorian pleasure garden. On either side there are open parkland buffers known as the North and South Gardens. The Gardens celebrated it's sesquicentenary (150 years old) in 2007. [ [http://www.abc.net.au/ballarat/stories/s2046496.htm Ballarat botanical gardens sesquicentenary podtour. 28 Sep 2007. ABC Ballarat. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) ] ]
Features
The gardens feature a large modern conservatory, returned POW war memorial, and heritage statuary pavilion. The conservatory also houses the Stoddart Statue collection, that were once scattered around the park, but brought indoors due to vandalism in the 1980s.
A collection of bronze busts of all 25 Australian Prime Ministers named Prime Minister's Avenue is set within the magnificent Horse Chestnut Avenue. One of the founding fathers of Federation was Alfred Deakin who was the first Federal Member for Ballarat and the second Prime Minister.
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