Wednesday 14 November 2012

CARLTON GARDENS

The Carlton Gardens is a World Heritage Site located on the northeastern edge of the Central Business District in the suburb of Carlton, in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.The 26 hectare site contains the Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne Museum and Imax Cinema, tennis courts and an award winning children's playground. The rectangular site is bound by Victoria Street, Rathdowne Street, Carlton Street, and Nicholson Street. From the Exhibition building the gardens gently slope down to the southwest and northeast.

According to the World Heritage listing the Royal Exhibition Buildings and Carlton Gardens are "of historical, architectural, aesthetic, social and scientific (botanical) significance to the State of Victoria."
The gardens are an outstanding example of Victorian era landscape design with sweeping lawns and varied European and Australian tree plantings consisting of deciduous English oaks, White Poplar, Plane trees, Elms, Conifers, Cedars, Turkey Oaks, Araucarias and evergreens such as Moreton Bay Figs, combined with flower beds of annuals and shrubs. A network of tree lined paths provide formal avenues for highlighting the fountains and architecture of the Exhibition building. This includes the grand allee of plane trees that lead to the exhibition building. Two small ornamental lakes adorn the southern section of the park.

The gardens contain three important fountains: the Exhibition Fountain, designed for the 1880 Exhibition by sculptor Joseph Hochgurtel; the French Fountain; and the Westgarth Drinking Fountain.

This post is part of the Water World Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Outdoor Wednesday meme,
and also part of the Nature Footsteps Waters meme.







8 comments:

  1. I love that little stone arch - is it a bridge?!!

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  2. What a beautiful place the Carlton Gardens are, Nick, and your captures are terrific! I do love those fountains! I could happily spend a lot of time there! Hope your week is going well!

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  3. lovely and watery gardens....

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  4. Great captures, Nick! They all speak of sun, relaxation and refreshing the soul:)

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  5. Nice sereies! :-)

    Greetings from The Netherlands!

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  6. Beautiful shots. My fave is the first the building in the middle of the two trees fascinates me. ^+^

    Visiting from Water World Wednesday
    Kim,USA

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  7. What a peaceful park. Ilike the first picture with the little girl skipping around the fountain.

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