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Carlton Gardens
1-111 Carlton Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053 Phone: 03 9658 9658About
The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage.A popular picnic and barbecue area, the heritage-listed Carlton Gardens are home to an array of wildlife, including brushtail possums.Dramatic tree-lined avenues, a majestic fountain, formal flowerbeds and miniature lakes are features of these late nineteenth century Gardens.The Carlton Gardens are of scientific (botanical) significance for their outstanding collection of plants, including conifers, palms, evergreen and deciduous trees, many of which have grown to an outstanding size and form. The Garden contains a rare specimen of Acmena ingens, only five other specimens are known, an uncommon Harpephyllum caffrum and the largest recorded in Victoria, Taxodium distichum, and south west of the Royal Exhibition Building."Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens are "of historical, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific (botanical) significance to the State of Victoria."Wildlife includes brushtailed possums, ducks and ducklings in spring, Tawny Frogmouths, Kookaburras.
