Australia's parks and gardens celebrate the nation's incredible botanical diversity. As well as plants native to Australia, they have been cultivated with a wide selection of exotics that have been imported from the rest of the world, contributing to a rich palette of forms and colours.

Canberra Floriade
Floriade is Canberra's colourful spring festival, when the parks and gardens surrounding the lake explode with the colourful rhythms of many thousands of massed tulips, commencing in mid-September.

Sydney's botanic bounty
Sydney's Royal Botanic Gardens - a serene, green wonderland, crammed with tropical and temperate plants on the site of the earliest convict gardens, and set in magnificent lawns near the Sydney Opera House.

Botany in Darwin
Darwin Botanic Garden is a wonderland of tropical plants set on a beautiful site near the waterfront. Don't miss the plant display house, with Asia/Pacific species, and the tropical palm collection.

Exotica in Melbourne
Just south of the city centre, the sprawling, 40 hectare Royal Botanic Gardens has a vast collection of exotic and native plants set among lawns and ornamental lakes landscaped in the 19th century.

Perth park of paradise
In a commanding position above the city and the Swan River, the sprawling Kings Park has natural bushland, walking trails and a 12 hectare botanical garden, famous for its spring wildflower displays.