Unique amongst Australian botanic gardens, the Australian Inland Botanic Gardens displays its plants by geographic region. However, plants from a very broad range of latitudes and environments thrive in Sunraysia’s warm, dry climate and well-drained soils.

Since 1988, more than 20,000 plants have been planted in Stage 1, a 48-hectare development in former mallee-chenopod (saltbush) woodland, features species from the floras of Africa, Europe, Asia, North and South America, New Zealand and Australia.

Mature mallees (Eucalyptus dumosa, E. oleosa E. socialis, E. gracilis and E viridis), Murray pines (Callitris preissii ssp murrayensis), belah (Casuarina pauper) and other significant remnants of the original vegetation community have been preserved. The garden beds are being developed around these living treasures which lend character, shelter new plantings, and stabilise the soil. Based on trunk girth and known growth rates, some mallees may be up to 2500 years old.

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