Date posted: 02 December 2020
Adelaide, Mount Lofty and Wittunga Botanic Gardens are open.
When visiting, please be sure to adhere to the state government’s up-to-date guidelines, which are available at https://www.covid-19.sa.gov.au. Please also ensure you maintain social distancing and stay home if you are at all unwell.
If you are feeling unwell, please stay home and do not come to a botanic garden or public space.
Please follow safe practice when at a botanic garden by:
The Simpson Kiosk at Adelaide Botanic Garden is open every day from 9am - 3pm.
Botanic Gardens Restaurant at Adelaide Botanic Garden is open for lunch Thursday-Sunday, and dinner Thursday-Saturday.
Café Fibonacci is currently open every day from 9am - 2pm.
A pop up food truck by Bracegirdles at Mount Lofty Botanic Garden is open every weekend from 10am-3pm.
There are no refreshments available at Wittunga.
The Diggers shop at Adelaide Botanic Garden is open every day from 10am - 5pm.
Our indoor botanical collection spaces are currently open every day. This includes the Bicentennial Conservatory, the Palm House, the Amazon Waterlily Pavilion.
The Santos Museum of Economic Botany is open every Wednesday - Sunday from 10am - 4pm.
Visitors will be asked to provide their contact details upon entry to the Museum. This information will only be used for the purpose of contact tracing in relation to COVID-19.
As part of our COVID-safe plan, the number of people allowed in each venue will be restricted to allow for the government social distancing requirement of 1 person per 2 square metres. For everyone's safety, please respect the capacity limits, which will be displayed on the outside of each building.
The Visitor Information Centre in the Schomburgk Pavilion and North Lodge (by the Friends' Gate) are currently closed.
The Simpson Shade House remains closed for repair until further notice.
The Schools Education Program is now accepting bookings for 2021!
Workshops are taking place as scheduled.
Volunteer-related activities including the free guided walks have been temporarily put on hold, however, Self-guided walks are available for each garden.
We have put in place additional cleaning of public toilets and visitor facilities throughout each of the gardens.
Some toilets will remain open, with the exception of those in the Tram Barn opposite the Little Sprouts Kitchen Garden and the those in the Schomburgk Pavilion at Adelaide Botanic Garden.
Botanic Gardens are different from public parks in that they're living museums, filled with valuable living collections. For this reason some activities - such as allowing dogs to roam the Garden - have the potential to damage or destroy valuable plants.
Botanic Gardens are also internationally-regarded as places for visitors to seek peace beauty and tranquillity, so activities that impede this (such as the use of drones) are also discouraged. You must not:
Thank you for contributing to the safety of our community.
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More information on COVID-19
The most recent update from SA Health can be found here.
If you would like to find out more about COVID-19, please visit sahealth.sa.gov.au/covid2019 or call the Australian Government Department of Health Coronavirus Health Information Line on 1800 020 080.
03 September 2021
Following the devastating 2020 bushfires on Kangaroo Island, scientists at the SA Seed Conservation Centre have visited the island a number of times to investigate what botanical treasures have regrown, and to collect seeds and plant specimens with a conservation aim.
17 August 2021
Repatriation of a rare pea from the UK Seed Bank for bushfire recovery in the Adelaide Hills.
