Pangarinda Botanic Garden
Pangarinda Botanic Garden - "Our Best Kept Secret"
This garden is a link in a chain of endeavour to conserve Australia's threatened flora. We prioritize species from the highly modified drier agricultural regions of southern mainland Australia.
Situated on 30 HA of Crown Lands, Pangarinda Drive, Wellington East, South Australia
Winter is one of the best times to visit Pangarinda as there is such a huge collection of hakeas growing there and is the time when most are flowering. The very striking blue flowered Hakea Iehmanniana blooms right in front of the information bay at present. This Hakea is not common in cultivation. There is also the sky blue Lechenaultia biloba flowering at the same time throughout the gardens. Some species of the Kangaroo Paw are beginning to bloom, as well as Banksias, Dryandras and Petrophiles.
When visiting, make time to walk the marked walkway, it will take walkers from the information bay through plants of WA into the Oympic 2000 plantings of local vegetation. When the Tailem Bend School Pupils started planting in 2000 there were only weeds. Today the walk takes you through a bush land of favourite places for many of our bird life. Watch out for the small quails that scoot across from one bush to another. Also the noisy babblers, flying low from one bough to another. Note the danger calls from the New Holland Honey eaters when birds of prey fly past.
In May look out for Robin Red Breasts hopping along the fence, as well as a Golden Whistlers, giving their beautiful calls as they flit amongst the acacias.
Visit a collection of Australian plants that is amongst some of the best.
The Pangarinda Botanic Garden brochure outlines the history of the site and provides a map of the garden.
The map highlights the different plants species found within the garden from across South Australia, inland Queensland, Eastern States and Western Australia.
Visitors can also navigate their way around the garden to the lookout, public toilets and varous benches and picnic spots.
Many bird species can be found in Pangarinda Botanic Garden including:
- Australian White Ibis
- Black faced cuckoo shrike
- Collared sparrow hawk
- Flamed Robin
- Little eagle
- New holland honeyeater
- Rainbow bee eater
- Spiny cheecked honeyeater
- Superb fairy wren
- Weebill
- Willie Wagtail
- Zebra Finch, and many more.
View the full list of birds:
Pangarinda Botanic Garden is located on Pangarinda Dr, Wellington East SA 5259.
To view the full brochure click here
Contact
For more information:
Council's Sustainability Officer on 1300 785 277 or council@coorong.sa.gov.au