Adelaide Botanic Garden wins international tourism award
21 November 2023
Adelaide Botanic Garden has been announced as a 'Garden of the World Worth Travelling For in 2024' at the International Garden Tourism Awards.
Date posted: 29 January 2016
Welcome to the first Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden Blog of 2016! While our Visiting Program sessions took a break over the festive season, by no means did action in the Garden stop. Horticultural Curator Pip has been busy making sure the Garden copes with the summer heat and it's looking positively a-maz-ing. Our huge pumpkins, "Moon and Stars" watermelon and eggplants are all popular with visitors right now.
Construction of Stage 2 of the Garden has begun and when finished it'll include a hand-washing and drink station, tables with seating, raised garden beds, the completion of water pumps and a new planting plan – but more on that in a future blog!
Let’s take it back to late spring now, where we made a very exciting observation in the Kitchen Garden – the arrival of native blue-banded bees! We have been spotting them (Amegilla cingulata) mainly around the Sacred Basil and Borage flowers.
Here are few facts about this wonderful bee:
Don’t forget bookings for the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden Visiting Program are now open. The general public are welcome to visit the Garden when sessions aren’t being held.
Image credit: By Vengolis (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
21 November 2023
Adelaide Botanic Garden has been announced as a 'Garden of the World Worth Travelling For in 2024' at the International Garden Tourism Awards.
18 July 2023
Have you ever driven past the beautiful heritage-listed Goodman Building when passing the Garden on Hackney Road? Did you know this building was formerly the base for the Municipal Tramways Trust but now serves as the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium administration building.