Camellia Gardens

Caringbah South NSW 2229, Australia

Introduction of Camellia Gardens

Camellia Gardens is located in Caringbah, Sutherland (Sutherland Shire), Southern District, New South Wales, about 25 kilometers from downtown Sydney.

On 29 April 1770, Captain James Cook (Captain James Cook) landed in Karnell (Kurnell), Sutherland County, Sydney .200 years later, the Sutherland County government decided to build a camellia-themed garden in the Caringba area to commemorate it, named after the late Professorory Waterhouse (Eben Gowrie Waterhouse,1881-1977), the world's leading camellia authority, who once lived in Sydney..

Camellia Gardens brings together many precious camellia varieties in the world and is an international leading camellia garden area. Because camellia bloom mainly in autumn and winter, in order to make the garden more colorful, gardeners added some other flowers, shrubs and annual plants in the park, such as camellia, roses and so on, so that Camellia Gardens became a veritable four-season garden: camellia blooms in early spring, followed by summer roses, camellia blooms from mid-October, and in late autumn there are colorful red leaves. The park has a stream called karena (Kareena Creek) flowing through and directly into the port of hakin (Port Hacking), thus attracting a lot of wild ducks and migrating rare birds, more special is living here a lot of gray-headed fox bats, is a unique species of australian fox bats, is also the largest bat in australia, so listed as protected animals.

Today, Camellia Gardens has been accredited by the International Camellia Association as "International Excellence Camellia Gardens", and is one of the 40 outstanding tea gardens in the world today. Elegant environment, beautiful flowers, sweet singing, so that Camellia Gardens became a tourist paradise. Every weekend and holiday, a large number of residents and tourists will come to the park to stroll and enjoy the scenery; many new people will also hold wedding 、 take wedding photos in the garden. The garden also has a teahouse overlooking the whole garden, as well as English cream tea and high tea.

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Near the main entrance on the presidential avenue (President Ave), there is a teahouse (The Teahouse Camellia Gardens), decorated with European style, decorated with a lot of classical decoration and green plants, after a stroll can go in for lunch, behind a lawn, mothers like to take baby sitting on the grass to chat in the sun;
Garden has two doors, back door parking more, google map search "Camellia Gardens" can find.

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