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Native Bee Hotel
The Native Bee Hotel is open for bee-z-ness in the
Mallee section of the Arboretum. Built by volunteers, the
woody ‘hotel’ is a hive of activity with its many hollows
and cavities prized by the native bees that reside in the
Arboretum. The multi-purpose facility provides around 80
species of native bees with shelter from the weather and a
safe place for them to hatch, with its residents settling the
bill by boosting pollination in our gardens.
North-west Corner
The Arboretum’s north-west corner is home to many
species common to the Adelaide foothills and original
Grey Box woodland. The site, which has been maintained
by volunteers for more than 15 years, provides an excellent
example of revegetation and regeneration in an urbanised
environment. The aim is to recreate elements of the original
Grey Box grassy woodland and understory that covered the
Adelaide Plains before European settlement.
Bird Garden
The Arboretum’s Bird Garden is a multi-layered
vegetation habitat garden, consisting of dense clumps of
shrub specimens, strips of native grasses and groundcovers.
It was created to attract smaller birds and encourage them to
adopt the site as a refuge. Dense foliage plants extend from
the ground up to three metres and higher. Current avian
visitors to the garden feed early in the morning and seek
shade during the warmest part of the day, and the pricklyfoliage plants provide protection from predators like larger
birds and cats, and act as nesting sites.
The Twentieth Century and Heritage Rose Garden
The Rose Garden has undergone many iterations over
the decades, but still showcases many of the original
features, such as a splendid rose arbour. The formal
layout of the southern end contains rare varieties, most
of which are no longer commercially available and were
sourced from England, America and New Zealand. The
opposite end features different varieties in a more informal,
contemporary design. Roses are in full bloom from
September until May. Visitors can also view the Armillary
Sphere Sundial, designed and made specifically for the
location by physicists Margaret Folkard and John Ward of
Sundials Australia and funded by private donations.
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