Download A3 print files:
Timaru Botanic Gardens-Hunt-.pdf
Download A3 print files:
Timaru Botanic Gardens-Hunt-.pdf
This is a map of Timaru and the Timaru Botanic Gardens from 1875. Just one pond existed then. The gardens were established in 1864 making it one of the oldest botanic gardens in New Zealand.
Source: From waste land to a garden of national significance: Timaru Botanic Gardens 1864-2014. By Keith Bartholomew
The main entrance is in Queen Street near the corner of King Street. To enter you pass through the ornate Gloucester Gates which were opened by the Duke of Gloucester in 1935.
The Timaru Botanic Gardens are located on 19 hectares of land in south Timaru. This land has been used for gardens and recreation since 1864, when the site was first gazetted as a public reserve. In 2014 the Timaru Botanic Gardens was recognised as a Garden of National Significance by the New Zealand Gardens Trust. In 1938 land for the Timaru Hospital was subdivided from the Botanic Gardens providing patients and visitors with a lovely environment for rest, recuperation and reflection.
Key features: Graeme Paterson Conservatory and Fernery, Ornamental ponds, Interpretive centre, Aviary, Cenotaph and War Memorial Wall, Anderson Rose Garden, Band rotunda, Children's playground, Species Rose Garden, Native plant collections, Threatened plant collections, Ornamental plantings, Pinetum, Queen Victoria Garden, Many plant collections. The Timaru Botanic Gardens provides some very attractive vistas as well as a year round interest for plant lovers. It is a photographer's delight. A highlight for children is feeding the ducks on a Saturday as by Sunday they are usually too well fed to be interested.
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Here are the answers for "Can You Read The Signs" from our Timaru Botanic Gardens Scavenger Hunt
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GRAB A COPY FROM COUNCIL FACILITIES: Scavenger Hunt Maps that have been kindly printed by the Timaru District Council are available at the Timaru Information Centre, The Aigantighe Art Gallery, Timaru District Library, Timaru Museum, Council Reception and the Timaru Botanic Gardens Conservitory.
SPONSOR YOUR OWN PRINTING: If you would like copies to hand out at your accommodation, business, group, club, organisation, please contact us. We can email a .pdf file that you can print off yourself, or if you would like to sponsor your own print run, we can help arrange printing with Corporate Print in Timaru.
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Make art in the park. Take some paper and crayons to the Timaru Botanic Gardens, find some fallen leaves, trace the outline and draw the veins on or try a leaf rubbing. This is one if the challenges on the #WuHooTimaru Bucket List. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Chat to a Cockatoo. Will the sulphur crested cockatoo watch you with it's beady eyes as you bob up and down? Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Point to pine cones in Pintum. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Spy pollinators that buzz. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Hide Painted Rocks in the Victorian Sunken Garden. The Queen Victoria Jubilee Fountain amongst the garden beds used to reside in front of the Timaru District Council unti lit was shifted in 1960.
Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the Metasequoia Dawn Redwood. Thought to be extinct 2 million years ago, the last 100 trees were discovered in China, and seeds made it all the way to little ol' Timaru, where this beautiful tree was established and stands today. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Sizzle a feast. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the chocolate tree. Have you found the chocolate tree? It was planted in 1946 by the Glouster Gates. Not only are the seeds used as a substitute for chocolate, but the seeds formed the basis of the carat weight system still used by Jewelers today! Mmmmmm carob! Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the cabbage tree that pre dates Europeans. Did you know this cabbage tree at the Timaru Botanic Gardens is so old, it could be pre the arrival of Europeans to Timaru! Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Spot the Dutch Elm that's over 150 years old. Yep as old as the Timaru Botanic Gardens - when Timaru become a borough! Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru
Botanic Gardens Challenge: Find the John Lennon Tree. Have you seen the John Lennon tree at the Timaru Botanic Gardens? It was gifted by Classic The Hits and 98 Port FM Radio in his memory. Take a photo and post to our Facebook / Instagram #WuHooTimaru