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Book your wedding in the Garden

Each season in the Garden offers something special from warm autumnal tones, the emerging colour of spring, the cool greens of summer or the bare delights of winter. Explore everything the Garden has to choose from below.
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Nature Therapy Walks

This guided experience is designed to increase your mental and physical health by reducing stress levels and lowering your pulse and blood pressure.
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Seedlings Nature School

Join experienced Early Years Nature Educators from the Garden who will facilitate play-based activities and nature experiences with you and your little one.
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Explore your Garden

The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden is one of a kind. The only botanic garden anywhere in the world located within a United Nations World Heritage Area.
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Magical Rainforest in a Jar

Get up close with some of the Garden's richest rainforest plants and learn what your mini forest needs to grow and thrive! Create your very own unique Rainforest in a Jar to take home.
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Gardening at home

Want to get growing in your garden? Join our team for some quick tips and you’ll be blooming in no time!
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Name a plant competition

Imagine not having a name... that’s exactly what's happened to one mystery plant that's held in our Herbarium. It was discovered decades ago, yet never named. Now is your chance to give it a name it can keep forever.
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Plants with Bite

Insects are lured with promises of sweet nectar, delightful smells and captivating colours by killer plants.
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No Plants No Animals

A two-metre-tall dinosaur bird roams the rainforests of north-east Queensland looking for its next meal to swallow whole. A meal that keeps itself, rainforests, and us alive.
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Mistletoe: a festive & freaky parasite

Mistletoe is in love potions, ancient medicines to ward off epilepsy and ulcers, and even a Justin Bieber Christmas song.
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What The Flora!?

Last summer, about 7 billion trees were impacted by the bushfires. Discover how scientists are using seed-banking to guard our endangered native plant species against extinction in our debut episode of What the Flora!?
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Hold your enchanting Australian wedding at the scenic Blue Mountains.

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Researchers trekked for three days in a crocodile infested river to find a threatened carnivorous plant that captures its prey with a trapdoor.