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This list of botanical gardens in South Africa is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in South Africa. Garden Province Date established
Wittunga Botanic Garden. The Wittunga Botanic Garden is one of three Botanic Gardens in Adelaide, South Australia administered by the Botanic Gardens of South Australia, a State Government statutory authority; the other two are the Adelaide Botanic Garden located in the inner city's parklands, and the Mount Lofty Botanic Garden.
Botanical gardens and arboreta in South Africa. Pages in category "Botanical gardens in South Africa" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ...
The Walter Sisulu National Botanical Garden, previously known as the Witwatersrand National Botanical Garden, is a 300 hectares (3.0 km 2) botanical reserve in western Roodepoort near Johannesburg. It was formally established in 1982 as the Transvaal National Botanic Gardens, at which time it was the 14th of South Africa's National Botanical ...
Oxford scholar Stephanie Dalley has proposed that the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were actually the well-documented gardens constructed by the Assyrian king Sennacherib (reigned 704 – 681 BC) for his palace at Nineveh; Dalley posits that during the intervening centuries the two sites became confused, and the extensive gardens at Sennacherib's ...
The gardens have been rearranged many times during their history; probably the only constants since the 1920s are the WWI Memorial Oak Tree and the statue of Sir Ross Smith. An undated aerial photo of the gardens (circa 2014) can be found on page 5 of the South Australian Heritage Council's description of The War Memorial Oak tree. [2]
Mount Lofty Botanic Garden Mount Lofty Botanic Garden Lake Type Botanical Location Crafers, South Australia Coordinates 34°59′21″S 138°42′50″E / 34.989116°S 138.713765°E / -34.989116; 138.713765 Area 97 ha (240 acres) Opened 1977 Owned by Government of South Australia Operated by The Botanic Gardens of South Australia Website Official webpage First opened in 1977, the ...
The garden is one of 10 National Botanical Gardens covering five of South Africa's six different biomes and administered by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI). Prior to 1 September 2004, the institute was known as the National Botanical Institute.