Right next to Adelaide Botanic Garden is the glorious Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla, a 34-hectare, green oasis a short walk from the Adelaide CBD.
Adelaide Botanic Garden purchased the land for the park in 1866. From 1890 onwards, lively public debate was to be had at Speaker's Corner on a Sunday. This gave Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla a reputation as Adelaide's version of Hyde Park, the celebrated locale for free speech in London.
Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla is adjacent to Adelaide Botanic Garden, separated by a stately avenue of plane trees planted in 1874, and on the northern side by the River Torrens and Adelaide Zoo.
Many a lazy afternoon has been wiled away, staring up into the canopy of the century-old Moreton Bay Fig trees, with their huge trunks and gnarled buttress roots.
Not just a popular venue for picnics, Botanic Park/Tainmuntilla is also an outstanding venue for major events including WOMADelaide and Moonlight Cinema.
Find out how we care for the park before and after events.
Guided walks
Free guided tours, taking in the history and significant plantings of the Park, take place every Monday at 2pm (except Christmas Day and Good Friday), departing from the Friends' Gate, Plane Tree Drive (in front of North Lodge).
For more information or to organise special interest or private walks visit the Friends of the Botanic Gardens website.
Please note all guided walks are cancelled on days forecast to reach 36 degrees or more.
Maps
Public Safety reminder: Visitors to Botanic Park are being reminded not to handle bats and be mindful especially around Speakers' Corner.
During high temperatures, heat-stressed bats and pups can fall to the ground. Contact with a bat can be very dangerous and the animals must only be handled by appropriately trained and vaccinated bat handlers.
If you come across a bat that appears to be dead, injured or in distress, contact Fauna Rescue’s 24-hour bat phone: 08 8486 1139.
Find out more about the bats - which are actually Grey-headed flying foxes.
