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The Museum Of Economic Botany

Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 7:48 am

One thing I didn’t expect to see while visiting Adelaide’s Botanical Gardens was a museum. Then again if you were going to have a museum in a botanical gardens you would expect it to house something to do with botany and even though I didn’t have time to check it out completely I did have a quick look inside and it was stepping back in time.

As you can see the exterior of the building looks pretty new but that’s only because it was refurbished in 2009 with the help of a nice grant by the government in 2007. I’m sure in giving the grant they wanted to please locals as well as those who choose to spend their holidays 2012 and beyond.

What makes this building special is that the interior has not changed since the museum first opened in 1881, which is why I said it was almost like stepping back in time. Upon walking in and looking around you will noticed that much of them original displays and display cabinets have survived, many of them sporting the original labels.

If you’re ever in the Adelaide Botanical, Gardens you should definitely pop in to the Museum Of Economic Botany.

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So Much To See At Adelaide’s Botanical Gardens

Thursday, November 10th, 2011 at 7:14 am

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In my last post I spoke about my quick trip to Adelaide’s Botanical Gardens and to tell you the truth I just didn’t have the room to display all the photos I took that day. If you haven’t read that post you should really head on over and check out The Adelaide Botanical Gardens A Great Place To Visit not just for the content but because there are some great photos there, especially the one of the Victoria Amazonica.

I’m sure that most people visit the local botanical gardens while on their holidays, especially if it happens to be spring. Being spring in Adelaide was one of the reasons why I popped in for a quick visit it our botanical gardens. I expected to see a lot of color from the many blooming flowers and I wasn’t disappointed.

Take this yellow one for example, I don’t know what it was called but I wasn’t the only one to enjoy it as it had a lot of visiting ants. Perhaps it had something besides sheer beauty that the ants enjoyed.
Not too far from this one I came across this one with the brilliant white petals. I wish I had the time to take note of the names of these flowers but like I said in the previous post time was short on that day. Still, maybe one of you guys could tell us what these flowers are called.

OK, now how about something a little more delicate like this pretty pink number. :smoke_tb:

For the last flower of the day I reckon it just has to be this little orange number. A bit weird looking but it had enough of a presence to attract a bee, but then maybe the bee didn’t have time to visit those other flowers yet. :laugh_tb:
Phew, all that photo taking sure does tucker a fellow out. Lucky for me I found this park bench in a shady spot where I could rest up a little before heading on home.