From Monday 28 April until September 2025, the northern end of Lower Domain Road will be closed for TasWater’s pipeline upgrade. During this period the northern entrance to the Gardens will remain closed. Please use the main entrance on Lower Domain Road or lower carpark entrance when visiting the Gardens.
Upgrades to drainage at the Community Food Garden will be taking place from Monday 28 April. A large portion of this area will be closed until May 2.
Designed to replicate Macquarie Island's appearance and conditions, and serve as an experimental space for cultivating its native plants.
Hold your dream day in the heart of Hobart. The Gardens offer an array of stunning locations, both indoor and outdoor.
This greenhouse displays a range of exotic plants which would not otherwise grow in the cool Tasmanian climate.
This area has an unbroken 200-year history of cultivation as a food garden and orchard.
Designed by Kanjiro Harda, a landscape architect from Yaizu, Hobart’s sister city in Japan, the Japanese Garden officially opened in 1987 as the first formal Japanese garden to be built in an Australian botanic garden.
This flower-lover’s collection features an arbour with high-performing roses and clematis scrambling along wall trellises and archways.
The north-facing section, was the residence for William Davidson, superintendent of the Government Domain and Gardens appointed in 1828.
A geographically-focussed collection of Tasmanian native plants, including endemic, rare and threatened flora.
The arch was originally constructed in 1913 to span the entrance of the AMP Society’s original Elizabeth Street building.
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