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Gardens are at 1000 Ballarto Rd, Cranbourne. Access by private vehicle is via the South Gippsland Highway. Cranbourne is reasonably well served by public transportation, with a train line from Melbourne and a number of local bus routes. There is a free shuttle bus running from Cranbourne
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Australian Garden also has a visitor information service within the Visitor Centre, guided walks and educational programs, volunteer master gardeners to help with advice on the use of Australian plants, a gift shop and licensed café.
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aims to allow visitors to explore people's place in the
Australian environment and to learn more about Australian plants. It features about 100,000 plants spread across fifteen landscape displays and exhibition gardens.
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has won a number of design awards already, but is still a work in progress, with a second stage covering an additional ten hectares scheduled to commence construction in late 2007 and to be completed by late 2011.
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Gardens are open from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm every day of the year except for Christmas Day. Entry to the gardens is free. The bushland areas of the gardens are closed on days of Total Fire Ban.
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and crescent shaped mounds designed to echo the shapes and colours found in
Central Australia. The garden is designed to show seasonal flushes of wildflowers, as seen in the deserts of Central Australia.
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mining from as far back as the 1820s, largely to supply the building of
Melbourne and its suburbs. The military used the site from 1889 until 1953, with private licences also issued for sand mining,
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In 1970 the site was named as a division of the Royal
Botanic Gardens Victoria, with a focus on Australian plant research and conservation. The gardens were not opened to the public until 1989. The
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These gardens demonstrate the role of water in the
Australian landscape. Many parts of Australia are prone to alternating drought and flood. Thus plants have had to
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uses natural plant materials recycled into a children's play area rather than the common plastic and metal constructions commonly found in
Australian backyards.
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features a number of exhibition gardens, sculptures and displays aimed to bring the beauty and diversity of the
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was planned and developed over several years, finally opening to the general public on 30 May 2006, and attracting 15,000 visitors on the opening day.
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in an undercroft below the Visitor's Centre, the Serpentine Path, and a Desert Discovery Camp in the Arid Garden for children to play and learn.
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are an omnipresent feature of the Australian landscape, with around 700 species found in virtually all habitats. The
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people inhabited the area around Cranbourne in pre-European times. The site of Cranbourne Gardens was used for
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Railway station to the Royal Botanical Garden. Pre-booking is required and can be done through their website.
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was designed by Taylor Cullity Lethlean Landscape Architects with Paul Thompson (Plant Design Pty Ltd). The
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