I visited the Pangarinda Botanic Garden, just outside the township of Wellington, South Australia, as part of a round trip drive between Tailem-Bend and Wellington. Rather than ‘hide’ the beauty of the garden in my general review on that drive (Day 305 (Pt.1)) I have decided to include what is essentially a pictorial summary of our winter visit to the garden here.
As I noted in Pt.1, the Garden bills itself as ‘”a real hidden gem of 30 ha of rare and threatened flora from Australia’s drier regions.” I cannot argue with that but will add that is an absolute credit to the volunteers who have created this beautiful space (over 30 years to date) from formerly weed infested, eroded sand drifts.
and as it is in July 2023…….
with lots of these……………
To finish up with, for those with a poetic bent:
ODE TO PANGARINDA
Unique in their class
Gondwanan, from the past,
The flora,
Australian
Endangered
Gnawed by bad habits
Sheep, goats and rabbits
Devouring
Our vast plains
And ranges
A small band of people
Devoted and able
We seek
To conserve
For the future
A sample of plants
From the drier parts
Of our state
Our country
To nurture.
For children at hand
A glimpse of past land
With flowers
And foliage
Well blessed
To marvel at remnants
That their descendants
May but
By Keyboard
Access.
To the ongoing life
On this planet of strife
Our efforts
A collection
Of genes
May offer a hand
To revegetate land
With Flora
Explorers
Had seen
For the future of man
The bilby, the swan
Gold sunsets
Glow over
The river
Just take it from us
With your help and fuss
We can save much
From near past
For EVER!
D John Barrie
The next review from my Adelaide to Canberra road trip can be found HERE.
Should you wish to follow this road trip from the beginning please start HERE.
The Rambling Wombat 
One could say that they started with a blank canvas. And what a superb job they did.
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Totally agree- to produce what we see today from basically nothing is amazing.
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Thank goodness for passionate people who care for the environment and do something about rectifying. Great images of the transformation. Brilliant.
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And thank you for reading 😀
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WOW! What an amazing floral array. Mel
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It really was.
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Wonderful, they have worked a miracle.
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Absolutely amazing transformation..
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From my early childhood days, I was always captivated by the tales of Captain Cook and his botanist accomplacies who brought back all the wonderful Australian plants to Blighty, and so it’s especially gratifying that places like this are keeping the native flora alive. You’ve got some great photos here Albert.
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Thank you Malc. I really enjoyed this garden.
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These flowers are so amazing in Australia. Anita
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Generally we have less colourful flowers than found in the Northern Hemisphere but many of the ones we have are, as you say, amazing. Albert
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