点评:My wife and I visited this Garden for the third time, during our recent holiday in Mount Dandenong where we stayed in a holiday cottage that was located very close to this place.
We returned for another visit because there is a new section called Chelsea Garden, which was not ready for opening at the time of our previous visit.
In 2013, the ‘Australian Garden’, created by Landscape Designer Phillip Johnson, Horticulturalist Wes Fleming and the Trailfinders Team, was the first Australian entry to win Gold and Best in Show at the prestigious Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) Chelsea Flower Show in London.
Ten years later, Phillip Johnson has re-created his award-winning Australian Garden in the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden in Olinda.
The new garden is over 20 times the size of the original Chelsea Flower Show build, converting a section of the former Olinda Golf Course into a stunning botanic garden, supporting biodiversity and habitat creation in the area.
The garden features 15,000 plants from over 400 native Australian species. The project was made possible thanks to a $3.8 million investment from the Victorian Government, $2.2 million from the Federal Government and $340,000 in funds raised by the People and Parks Foundation.
翻译:我和我的妻子第三次参观这个花园,我们最近在丹德农山度假期间,我们住在离这个地方很近的一个度假小屋里。
我们再次访问是因为有一个名为切尔西花园的新区域,在我们上次访问时尚未准备好开放。
2013 年,由景观设计师 Phillip Johnson、园艺师 Wes Fleming 和 Trailfinders 团队创建的“澳大利亚花园”成为第一个在伦敦著名的皇家园艺学会 (RHS) 切尔西花卉展上赢得金奖和最佳展示奖的澳大利亚作品。
十年后,菲利普·约翰逊在奥林达的丹德农山脉植物园重建了他屡获殊荣的澳大利亚花园。
新花园的面积是原切尔西花展建筑的 20 多倍,将前奥林达高尔夫球场的一部分改造成令人惊叹的植物园,支持该地区的生物多样性和栖息地创建。
花园里种植着来自 400 多种澳大利亚本土物种的 15,000 株植物。该项目的成功得益于维多利亚州政府的 380 万澳元投资、联邦政府的 220 万澳元投资以及人民和公园基金会筹集的 34 万澳元资金。