19 July 2026

Cranbourne Botanic Gardens

The Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne is 50km SSE of  Melbourne and approximately a 50 minute drive.  Please click on the link for direction how to get to the gardens.
 
Entry to Cranbourne Botanic Gardens is free. 

We started from the visitors centre and walked clockwise around the gardens.
 
 
Dry River Bed and Arid Garden

 
Bottle tree (R and below)





Lilypad Bridge

          
A small water bird Cormorant

Banksia 

  

Kangaroo Paw (L), Pigface (R)  


After the gardens we then walked around the loop starting at the Trig Track and then a side trip to the Perched Swamp and then the Wetland Walk and then the Wylie Creek track back to the car park.

The walk: Trig Track - Wetlands Walk - Wylie Creek Track - Car Park

Wetlands, visitors and a local wallabie.