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FLORA SECTION The rainforest gully displays assorted ferns Fitzmauric Str The native flora section features scattered and rainforest trees. The gully is kept moist eet and humid by an automatic spray system that trees in lawn areas, with native plantings e operates throughout the day to create the Johnston around the perimeter. Many of the shrubs eet Str located on the borders of the garden have conditions required to grow rainforest plants eet in a very hot and dry climate. not been pruned, giving an insight into their Gurwood Str Visitor et natural growth and shape. Information Morrow Stre 9 WATERWISE GARDEN Baylis Str Centre WAGGA WAGGA 2 MODEL RAILWAY The Waterwise Garden was developed to Tarcutt ee t The Wagga Wagga Society of Model Engineers demonstrate and provide practical advice on a Str Forsyth Street BOTANIC GARDENS has created a miniature world of rail, which landscaping and irrigation to reduce water eet

delights thousands of visitors each year. A usage. The garden displays are all hands- ee t railway station and working controls feature on and systems can be seen and touched, Best St re City Centre along the extensive track, which weaves incorporating both native and exotic plants. Docker Str through the gardens. Trains run on the first and To et To Sydney third Sunday of every month. Melbourne Edward Street Wagga Wagga Railway Station 10 ROSE GARDEN Base Hospital 3 TREE CHAPEL The David Jones Memorial Rose Garden is The tree chapel provides a venue for open ablaze with colour when in full bloom. Wagga air services and weddings in a natural, Wagga provides ideal growing conditions for ee t Edmondson Str simplistic and rustic setting. roses. Mitchelmor Str ee t

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Bourke Str for renovations Urana Street 4 CAMELLIA GARDEN 11 ISLAND & BAMBOO GARDEN This garden was established to celebrate This beautiful garden area overlooks a pond Wagga Wagga’s Sister City relationship with that creates a peaceful setting, with a gazebo Kunming, China. Craftsmen from the City that is surrounded by a spectacular bamboo of Kunming, using tools and materials that garden and is popular for weddings. have hardly changed in a thousand years, constructed the Entrance Gate, Pavilion and a marble Chinese lantern. Image: Ben Blackburn Photography ZOO & AVIARY WAGGA WAGGA VISITOR 12 MUSUEM OF THE RIVERINA Currently closed for renovations. Open daily INFORMATION CENTRE 9am to 4pm 183 Tarcutta Street WAGGA WAGGA SHAKESPEARIAN GARDEN Closed Christmas Day Ph: 1300 100 122 5 13 ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND visitwagga.com BOTANIC GARDENS The Shakespearian garden is designed in Model Railway - Trains run on the line with the Elizabethan period. The small & PICNIC AREA first and third Sunday of every CITY OF WAGGA WAGGA month and on special occasions Explore and enjoy the wonders of the Wagga Wagga formal beds are planted and trimmed to Suitable for all ages, children can enjoy the Cnr Baylis & Morrow Street form what is known as a Knot Garden, which cable ride, lose each other in the labyrinth 10:30am to 4pm Botanic Gardens situated within the Willans Hill Reserve. (Closed for lunch break PO Box 20 is a style typical of the time. maze and climb until their hearts content on Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 the massive climbing net. 12.30pm – 1.30pm) Construction of the Botanic Gardens started in in 1961, Covered shoes compulsory Ph: 1300 292 442 with the first trees planted in 1962. The gardens were Ph: (02) 6925 2249 [email protected] wagga.nsw.gov.au officially opened in 1968 by the Director of Botanic 6 CACTI & SUCCULENT GARDEN This garden features drought-resistant plants 14 KIDSVILLE TODDLERS PLAY AREA Gardens, Adelaide, Mr T. R. N. Lothian. from Africa and America. All plants within the Ideal for young children, this area is fully garden originate from areas with low rainfall fenced, shaded, close to toilets and zoo. Today, the Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens feature and have adapted succulence as a strategy WEDDINGS/FUNCTIONS IN THE GARDENS nine distinct garden areas, a Chinese pavilion, three to withstand drought. The Wagga Wagga Botanic Gardens provides the perfect backdrop playgrounds, a free zoo and aviary, a tree chapel and a 15 PROTEA GARDEN for weddings/fuctions. Contact [email protected] for model railway that weaves throughout the gardens. more information. 7 ZOO & AVIARY This garden displays a range of proteas THE WAGGA WAGGA BOTANIC GARDENS Walking through the free-flight aviary is a suitable for growing in Wagga Wagga + highlight of visiting the zoo. More than 90 Surrounds. ADVENTURE TOUR species of animals and birds, both native Take a self guided tour to discover hidden treasures, rare and exotic, live here including the stunning 16 MUSIC BOWL peacocks that roam freely within the zoo. The plants and surprising facts about the gardens. Download This fantastic outdoor concert area has a children’s farmland, with chooks, ducks and covered stage and is suitable for small or large the app from the museumriverina.com.au/app rabbits is always popular. concerts. fire trail steam & vintage museum

3 TREE CHAPEL 5 SHAKESPEARIAN 6 GARDEN 12 4 CACTUS AND CAMELLIA SUCCULENT GARDEN GARDEN 15 7 protea ZOO AND GARDEN AVIARY CURRENTLY CLOSED chinese FOR RENOVATIONS pavilion 2 model railway BRIDGE

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LORD BADEN POWELL DRIVE BAMBOO GARDEN 13 PLAYGROUND 13 ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND AND PICNIC AREA

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