| Opening times | Closing times |
|---|---|
| Monday - Friday December - January: 7pm Weekends and public holidays October - March: 7pm |
Free
Shepherds Hill Road, Blackwood SA 5051, Australia
Entrance: Shepherds Hill Road or Sherbourne Road.
Bus & Train: Check Adelaide Metro for bus services to Blackwood and train services to Coromandel Station.
Walk: 5-10 minute walk from Blackwood.
Free parking is available in the car park off Shepherds Hill Road.
There are wheelchair and pram-friendly paths in the garden, picnic tables and rotundas, as well as disabled toilet facilities.
Garden entrances from the car park are wheelchair accessible for visitors who arrive in a vehicle.
For wheelchair access from the street, the Sherbourne Road entrance on the eastern boundary is accessible for wheelchairs. It has flat surfaces and bitumen paths.
There is also access from the footpath off Shepherd's Hill Road that leads to the new nature playspace, however visitors are advised there is a air-lock child safety gate; some people may require assistance to unlatch this gate. This pathway is compacted gravel and has a gentle gradient.
The nature playspace has a wheelchair accessible in-ground trampoline.
Enjoy a new nature playspace suitable for 2-12 year olds. Featuring equipment inspired by nature, children will delight in the climbing frames, swings, a giant bench, wodli (cubby), a dry, sandy billabong and more.
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.
The Botanic Gardens of South Australia are home to a huge variety of bird and animal life that are attracted to the Gardens’ flora. We do, however, ask that you do not feed the wildlife. Find out more about animal welfare and the Botanic Gardens of South Australia.
09 July 2022
Kangaroo Island’s threatened flora is being given a life-line thanks to a new Seed Production Garden.In a bid to safeguard plants from extinction, the Threatened Flora Seed Production Garden will grow multiple populations of the island’s at-risk species, then collect their seed for banking and biodiversity recovery projects on the island.
03 May 2022
Adelaide Botanic Garden has been shrunk down to fun-sized flowers, teensy trees and a petite Palm House for a new ABC TV show, Tiny Oz.
