Gardening in Australia reflects the different styles of Australian art, including influences from Roman, Islamic, Italian, French, and English gardens. Modern Australian gardening emphasize gardens and their surroundings, focusing heavily on both urban horticulture and landscape architecture.
There are many historical parks and gardens in Australia.
The first botanical gardens in Australia were founded early in the 19th century. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, 1816; the Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens, 1818; the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne, 1845; Adelaide Botanic Gardens, 1854; and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, 1855. These were established essentially as colonial gardens of economic botany and acclimatisation.[1] The Auburn Botanical Gardens, 1977, located in Sydney's western suburbs, are one of the popular and diverse botanical gardens in the Greater Western Sydney area.[2]
A range of books, magazines[3][4] and television programmes are dedicated to the topic in Australia.
Early colonial gardens were normal Australian native flowers are popular now.[5][6][7]
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Floriade is the largest flower festival in the Southern Hemisphere, with over 300,000 visitors each year Almond Blossom Festival, Carnival of Flowers, Kings Park Festival, Melbourne International Flower and Garden Show and Tesselaar Tulip Festival are some others.
Some organizations are Australian Garden History Society, Australian Native Plants Society, Australian Organic Farming and Gardening Society, National Rose Society of Western Australia, Royal Agricultural and Horticultural Society of South Australia, The Seed Savers' Network, Victorian College of Agriculture and Horticulture, Village Community Co-operative and Wildflower Society of Western Australia
