WELLINGTON BOTANIC GARDEN
The Wellington Botanic Garden has an entrance on top of a hill that is reached via the Cable Car. This entrance provides a splendid view of the city of Wellington, the capital of New Zealand.
The Wellington Botanic Garden was started in 1868 and covers about 66 acres. It now includes several collections including succulents, roses (about 3,000), native forest plants, Maori flax, and rhododendrons.
Visitors can also find an exotic forest and a begonia house.
Below are photos taken in February 2013, so whatever plants were blooming at that time of the year (summer in New Zealand) were at their best.
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| City view from cable car stop |
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| Oak topiary at top entrance |
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| The garden plan |
VARIOUS FLOWERS
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| Banksia lemon delicious |
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| Bloodroot - Wachendorfia |
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| Chamomile |
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| Colchicum |
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| Delicate red flowers |
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| Flowering tobacco |
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| Geranium border |
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| Harlequin glorybower |
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| Kangaroo paw |
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| Mauve flowers |
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| Melliferous flowers |
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| Metrosideros collina |
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| Orange flowers |
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| Pink lily |
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| Princess flowers |
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| Purple flower spikes |
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| Bright red flowers |
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| Saw banksia |
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| Wild teasel |
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| Woolly grevillea |
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| Woolly grevillea closeup |
THE ROSES
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| Amber Flush rose |
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| Burgundy Iceberg roses |
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| City of Auckland rose |
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| The climbing roses |
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| White Iceberg roses |
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| Malaga climbing rose |
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| Mary's Love roses |
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| Romeo rose has a lover! |
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| The rose garden and glasshouse |
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| Growing sustainable roses |
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| Tangerine pink roses |
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| Tropical Delight rose |
To enjoy beautiful painted roses and other flowers, please visit this website:
https://www.clemencestlaurent.com/
THE TREES
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| Black pods tree |
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| Blooming trees |
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| Camphor tree |
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| Casophora tree |
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| Japanese cedar |
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| Holly tree |
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| Pennantia baylisiana |
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| Monterey pine with cones |
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| Podocarpus totara |
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| New Zealand Christmas tree |
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| Ti Kouka, Cabbage tree |
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| Sitka spruce |
THE SUCCULENTS
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| Airplane or Propeller plant |
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| Airplane plant closeup |
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| Black rose tree |
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| Spiral aloe |
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| Blue rose echeveria |
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| Fan aloe |
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| Threatened plants |
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| Threatened species garden |
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| Cicada |
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| The Flax collection |
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| Flax |
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| Fern fronds |
BUGBANE 'James Campton' - a plant with many different names (both English and Latin). Also called Actaea simplex or Cimicifuga ramosa (Atropurpurea Group), Ranunculaceae family. Other common names: Black Snakeroot, Cohosh, Baneberry.
The Bugbane flowers are highly fragrant and attract many pollinating insects. It blooms in the fall on Prince Edward Island, Canada.