In the south-western part of Sydney's 416 acres of rolling hills stretches the largest in Australia, the Botanical Garden "Mount Enna". Garden, opened in 1988 the Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson, contains an extensive collection of typically Australian plants - more than 4 thousand copies! It was in this garden in 1995 were first cultured vollemskie pine - the oldest plants on Earth, accidentally discovered a year ago in the national park "Wollemi" 200 km from Sydney. Prior to this it was thought that vollemskie pine trees have already disappeared from the face of our planet. These trees are so valuable that for a while they were kept in steel cages, protecting against thieves. Today in the Botanical Garden "Mount Enna" you can see the world's only collection of the first generation of pines, consisting of 60 trees.
The Botanical Garden is traditionally divided into several thematic areas - "Garden Big plans", "The Garden of Australian acacia", "Garden Banks", etc. Amid all this blossoming splendor inhabits 160 species of birds, mountain vallaru kangaroos, wallabies and kangaroos ordinary, familiar to every tourist. In the garden is laid 20 km of footpaths and scattered picnic areas. Here are the Botanical Research Center and based in 1986. Seed Bank of New South Wales. The main objective of the bank was to provide a garden created seeds of wild plants, especially acacia, eucalyptus trees and plants of the family Proteaceae, which includes about two thousand species. Today an important part of the bank's activities comprise research and conservation projects.
Close to the completion of the construction of the Center Makarturovskogo sustainable livelihoods, which has already launched a number of educational programs to train local people to organic farming. It is planned that all interested persons to grow their own fruits and vegetables, but do not have suitable for this land will be able to realize their ideas at the center.
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