Remnant River Red Gums – A guided walk – Adelaide Botanic Garden
Join John Sandham as he takes you on a tour of the remaining River Red Gums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) in Adelaide Botanic Garden and Botanic Park and introduces you to their young progeny.
Learn about where these striking trees started their long life before the arrival of Colonel Light and the development of the Botanic Gardens.
Explore the evolution of the Australian landscape and the importance of the River Red Gum – how it manages to survive from state to state.
Ponder what these trees may have witnessed over their lifetime and unearth this Australian icon’s Italian connections, discovering why these historic relations will last forever. No doubt you'll be swept up imagining what the future generation of trees will look like in 200+ years’ time!
Cost: $10
Date: Wednesday 30th September 2020
Time: 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Meet: Just inside the Friends’ Gate, Adelaide Botanic Garden (B7 on map)
See you soon!
The safety and wellbeing of our visitors, volunteers and staff remains our highest priority and, in preparation to welcoming our programmes, we are implementing new COVID-19 compliant protocols to offer an enjoyable experience for all participants while minimising the risk of COVID-19. Measures include:
• Participants must not attend if they are unwell and/ or exhibit any COVID-19 symptoms.
• Group sizes have been kept small to ensure physical distancing can be adhered to while not impacting on the quality of the learning experience.
• Participants and staff must practice good hygiene before, during and after sessions.
• Participants must maintain physical distance (1.5m).
For more information and updates on the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium's response to the COVID-19 pandemic, please see LATEST NEWS.
