The Garden 

Here are some of the typical views you will see as you travel the loop road and trails covering over a hundred hectares. We have many beautiful plants from dryland Australia integrated with the natural bush, no manicured lawns and few landscaped displays. For individual plant images, please go to What's Flowering.

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Images - Art in the Garden 

The marriage of art and science is natural here - Dave Gordon our founder was a keen amateur botanist and Dorothy his wife a talented artist, and today many of our volunteers are artists. Here we show some of the works inspired by the Garden, and some of the subject matter behind the inspirations. 

More details of our artworks can be found at  Gallery  and in our fact sheet (in Acrobat .pdf format)

Angophora Themes 

Angophora leiocarpa grows abundantly. The bark of this tree undergoes spectacular colour changes in summer, making it a favourite subject for artists and photographers.

Angophora bark February-October		Angophora bark November-January
Watercolour painting by Dorothy Gordon.		Behind the gallery - storm approaching
Angophora pinhole photograph by Victoria Cooper		Angophora detail featured in the Gallery Mural
One of the angophora sculptures in the Garden by Stephen Newton, Pamela Croft and Cheryl Moodai Robinson		"Red and Cream" - Angophora 'Impressiongraph" image by photographer Marianne Irvine