Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens

Covering a 15-hectare site, the Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens are home to various flora and fauna. This includes the Birch Grove, home to a collection of 22 types of silver birch trees, the Winter Garden, a haven for blue fairy wrens, Eastern spinebills and thornbills, and the Foundation Walk, a collection of crab apples. The Oak Rondell also features a circle of oaks and weeping boxwoods. A number of sculptures are scattered throughout the gardens and two wheelchair-accessible picnic shelters, an all ability playground and the plant nursery which is open on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The gardens, planned by landscape architects Taylor Cullity Lethlean, are community funded and operated.