City Botanic Gardens

City Botanic Gardens
City Botanic Gardens with buildings in the CBD visible in the background
Type	Botanical
Location	Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°28′29″S 153°01′48″E / 27.4747°S 153.0301°E / -27.4747; 153.0301
Area	200,000 m2 (49 acres)
Opened	1855
Owned by	Brisbane City Council
Designation	State Heritage Place (Queensland Heritage Register)[1]

City Botanic Gardens
Entrance gates, Albert Street, 2016
Location	147 Alice Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Coordinates	27°28′33″S 153°01′47″E / 27.4759°S 153.0296°E / -27.4759; 153.0296
Design period	1824–1841 Convict settlement
Queensland Heritage Register
Official name	Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Queen's Park, Walter Hill Fountain
Type	state heritage (built, landscape)
Designated	3 February 1997
Reference no.	600067
Significant period	1865–1920s (fabric) 1828–1855, 1855–1970s, (historical) 1855–ongoing (social)
Significant components	drain – storm water, gate – entrance, animal enclosure/s, garden – bed/s, tree groups – avenue of, wall/s – retaining, residential accommodation – housing, rotunda, pathway/walkway, lake / pond / waterway, tree groups – copse, fountain, steps/stairway, trees/plantings, garden/grounds, wall/s, amphitheatre
Location of City Botanic Gardens in Queensland

The City Botanic Gardens (formerly the Brisbane Botanic Gardens) is a heritage-listed botanic garden on Alice Street, Brisbane City, City of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. It was also known as Queen's Park. It is located on Gardens Point in the Brisbane CBD and is bordered by the Brisbane River, Alice Street, George Street, Parliament House and Queensland University of Technology's Gardens Point campus. It was established in 1825 as a farm for the Moreton Bay penal settlement.

The Gardens include Brisbane's most mature gardens, with many rare and unusual botanic species. In particular the Gardens feature a special collection of cycads, palms, figs and bamboo.

The City Botanic Gardens was added to the Queensland Heritage Register on 3 February 1997.^[1] The Queensland Heritage Register describes the Gardens as "the most significant, non-Aboriginal cultural landscape in Queensland, having a continuous horticultural history since 1828, without any significant loss of land area or change in use over that time. It remains the premier public park and recreational facility for the capital of Queensland, which role it has performed since the early 1840s."^[1]