Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens is spread over an area of ​​14 hectares close to the center of Hobart. Founded in 1818 on the east bank of the River Derwent, the Botanical Garden is the second oldest in Australia. Some of his collection of plants and trees date back to the 19th century. There is a unique collection of plants Tasmania endangered. Its most interesting exhibits are the royal Lomat and the world's only sub-Antarctic Plant Pavilion. This pavilion contains the plants high southern latitudes, which created special climatic conditions that reproduce their natural habitat - dank dense fog. Most of these plants are brought to Macquarie Island. And just in the botanical garden you can see about 6, 5 thousand plants!

While walking among all this floristic diversity, you can see the largest in the southern hemisphere collection of conifers, a quiet Japanese garden, a spectacular conservatory with a fountain, a garden, spice plants, maddening their unique smell, and garden "plot Pete", created by the famous Tasmanian gardener Peter Kandellom. Lily Pond, created in the 1840s - one of the favorite places among visitors to the garden. Not far from the restaurant and visitor center is romantic Jubilee Arch, surrounded by tall trees spreading.

The Botanical Garden has several buildings of historical value. Among them - the director of the house (now the administration office of the garden) and Val Arthur - trough which can be heated for growing fruit. However, it turned out that fruit trees in Tasmania grow well without any help, and the shaft was never used for its intended purpose. On the northern tip of the shaft is another house, built in 1845 for the head gardener, which over the years housed the janitor, the residence of the warden, tea rooms and other facilities. Another brick shaft - the longest building in Australia, built prisoners - crosses the garden area from north to south. This shaft Eardley-Wilmot, who, as legend has it, was built to prevent the invasion of grasshoppers. In 1878 the garden was installed wrought iron gates, it became a real decoration.

Long before the first Europeans on these lands inhabited by indigenous tribes, and traces of their presence is now visible and the Botanical Garden.