To get to the Royal Botanic Garden, travelers can walk from the ferry terminal at Circular Quay, take the No. 200 or No. 441 buses or hop on a train to the Martin Place station.

The bloom, which typically lasts just 24-48 hours, is one of the rarest and shortest-lived spectacles in the plant world.

The three platypuses were found dead in Australia’s Albury Botanic Gardens, which says it attracts more than 300,000 visitors a year.

Most Australian botanic gardens were established in the 19th century, starting with the garden in the Sydney Domain around 1816. The earliest gardens served multiple functions. They were food gardens.

Barley has returned to Australia after guiding major improvements in Kew’s outdoor gardens, whether an Evolution Garden or ...

The so-called 'corpse flower', which comes from Indonesia and has a botanical designation of Amorphophallus Titanum, is already well into its 48-hour decade-in-the-making bloom at Geelong Botanic ...

South Coast Botanic Garden, 26300 Crenshaw Blvd., Palos Verdes Peninsula. 424-452-0920. southcoastbotanicgarden.org. This 87-acre beauty is free on the third Tuesday of each month.

Adelaide Botanic Garden can be reached on foot from the Adelaide Zoo. If you are coming from downtown, you can drive and park in one of two lots or ride one of Adelaide Metro's buses to the area.