Such a lovely Tuesday morning with the Brisbane City Sketchers. I really love this bunch of people, they are good hearted people and so much fun.
The Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha is a huge rambling place, loads of water features, and wildlife. It is 56-hectare, subtropical gardens featuring native & exotic plants.
The gardens, which were originally called the Mount Coot-tha Botanic Gardens and were established by the Brisbane City Council in 1970, and officially opened in 1976
The gardens feature more than 200,000 plants representing approximately 5000 species from around the world. Plants are displayed in subtly changing thematic and geographic communities.
In 1985, work commenced on the 27 hectare Australian Plant Communities collection. This area, starting with the magnificent Bunya Forest, offers visitors a wonderful opportunity to view Australian native plants.
The newest edition to the Brisbane Botanic Gardens Mt Coot-tha opened in May 2015. Delivered as part of the Legacy Way tunnel project, this four hectare area includes a conservation walk, kitchen garden, new lagoon and children's playground.
This Tropical Display Dome is a large lattice structure (geodesic) displaying plants from the tropics.
The dome provides a climate close to the natural growing conditions for range of shrubs, climbers, epiphytes and small trees that wouldn't normally grow in Brisbane.
There are several lagoons in the gardens, teeming with wildlife and water birds. This one had a class of school children and their teacher doing nature lessons. It was delightful to sit there drawing and listening to the lesson.
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