Steven Sklifas - Writer Photographer

  • Home
  • Galleries
    • All Galleries
    • Search
    • Cart
    • Lightbox
    • Client Area
  • Blog
  • services
  • Writing
  • Contact
  • About
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
x
Australia All Galleries
Add to Cart
twitterlinkedinfacebook

Dandenong Ranges Botanic Gardens - Victoria - Australia 28 images Created 7 Apr 2021

Images in this gallery are of the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden, a dazzling showcase of stunning exotic and native flora, only one hour’s drive from central Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
View: 100 | All

Loading ()...

  • A gazebo surrounded by diverse plants and tall mountain Ash trees,  Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_001.jpg
  • View across small lake and the Kurume Bowl, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. The Kurume Azaleas display is one of the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and provides a symphony of colour particularly in spring.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_004.jpg
  • View across small lake and the Kurume Bowl, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. The Kurume Azaleas display is one of the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and provides a symphony of colour particularly in spring.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_005.jpg
  • View across small lake and the Kurume Bowl, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. The Kurume Azaleas display is one of the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and provides a symphony of colour particularly in spring.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_007.jpg
  • View across small lake and the Kurume Bowl, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. The Kurume Azaleas display is one of the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and provides a symphony of colour particularly in spring.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_013.jpg
  • Part view of the Kurume Bowl, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. The Kurume Azaleas display is one of the largest of its kind in the southern hemisphere and provides a symphony of colour particularly in spring.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_016.jpg
  • Lush green display of plant life at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_019.jpg
  • Rhododendron plant (Rose Tree in Greek). There are 850 species if Rhododendron in the wild. Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_022.jpg
  • Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_025.jpg
  • Section of Cherry Tree Grove (Summertime). Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.  The grove was officially opened by their Imperial Highness Prince and Princess Akishino of Japan on 13th October 1995.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_026.jpg
  • Close up of a Protea plant, native to Southern Africa, the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. The genus Protea was named in 1735 after the Greed Sea God Proteus who could change his form at will.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_027.jpg
  • Close up of a Protea plant, native to Southern Africa, the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. The genus Protea was named in 1735 after the Greed Sea God Proteus who could change his form at will.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_028.jpg
  • Dazzling pincushion flowers of the Leucospermum 'Scarlet Ribbon' plant, member of the Proteacea family. Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. Native to Southern Africa, the genus Protea was named in 1735 after the Greed Sea God Proteus who could change his form at will.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_030.jpg
  • Dazzling pincushion flowers of the Leucospermum 'Scarlet Ribbon' plant, member of the Proteacea family. Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. Native to Southern Africa, the genus Protea was named in 1735 after the Greed Sea God Proteus who could change his form at will.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_032.jpg
  • Dazzling pincushion flowers of the Leucospermum 'Scarlet Ribbon' plant, member of the Proteacea family. Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. Native to Southern Africa, the genus Protea was named in 1735 after the Greed Sea God Proteus who could change his form at will.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_034.jpg
  • Pathway winding around the Protea garden, the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. Proteas are native to Southern Africa; the genus Protea was named in 1735 after the Greed Sea God Proteus who could change his form at will.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_036.jpg
  • Elegant West Himalayan Spruce trees, large, pyramidal, needled conifers with horizontal drooping branches. Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia. Growing to 30 metres (100 feet) in height the tree is also known as Picea smithiana, the morinda spruce
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_038.jpg
  • Pathway lined by a meadow including Irish Heath flowers Daboecia cantabrica.   Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_041.jpg
  • Smoke tree, either the European (Cotinus coggygria) or American (Cotinus obovatus). Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_048.jpg
  • Paved walkway through lush green display of plant life at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_050.jpg
  • The Gazebo and Ornamental Lake, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_053.jpg
  • Looking across the ornamental lake, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_056.jpg
  • View towards the Gazebo and Ornamental Lake, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_057.jpg
  • Paved walkway through lush green display of plant life at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_060.jpg
  • Paved walkway through lush green display of plant life at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_066.jpg
  • Old red telephone box in the scented garden, Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_068.jpg
  • Mexican Blue Mist plant (Bartlettina sordida), Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_069.jpg
  • Mexican Blue Mist plant (Bartlettina sordida), Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden. Victoria. Australia.
    Dandenong_Ranges_Botanic_ Garden_071.jpg