Garden Guides

Free Guided Walks by 

Experienced Friends Garden Guides

Adelaide Botanic Garden Guided Walks  leave from the Schomburgk Pavilion daily at 10.30am and last approximately 1.5 hours.  

Mt Lofty Botanic Garden Guided Walks Every Thursday 10.30am throughout the year from the Lower Car Park, Lampert Road, Piccadillly. 

Mini bus tours available phone 8370 8370

Wittunga Botanic Garden contains the State's largest collection of South African plants & a fine collection of Australian native plants.  

Walks leave the Car Park, Shepherds Hill Road, Blackwood, every Tuesday mid August - November at 10.30am.

The Garden Guides are a trained group of Friends who take members of the public for free guided walks in the 3 Botanic Gardens - Adelaide Botanic Garden, Mt Lofty Botanic Garden & Wittunga Botanic Garden.

Booked Walks

The Garden Guides also take booked walks for groups of five or more and special interest walks are available. For more information and to book a walk, please telephone the Guides' Booking Officer on (+61 8) 8226 8803.

Heat Policy for Guided Walks

Please be aware that if TEMPERATURES ARE FORECASTED TO GO ABOVE 36 Degrees Celsius Guided Walks will be CANCELLED

Special Walks in the Gardens

Self Guided Walk Leaflets

In addition to taking guided walks, the Guides also prepare a monthly self-guiding trail for each Garden, which can be collected from the Gardens' brochure boxes..  Self-guided walk  Self-guided Map leaflets are  available in the information boxes in the Botanic Gardens & the Visitor Info Centre. 

 To join the Garden Guides
There is an initial training course of one day per week over a 12-week period, followed by assessment walks. The training course covers topics such as presentation skills, history and geography of the Botanic Gardens of Adelaide, botany and plant taxonomy.

For more information, contact friendsabg@internode.on.net

The Botanic Gardens of Adelaide hosted the Botanic Garden Guide Conference 24-28 September 2007

Next Australasian Conference of Voluntary Guides in Botanic Gardens will be held in Hobart, Tasmania from Monday 9 November until Friday 13 November 2009.

Further information:  www.rtbg.tas.gov.au

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Garden Guides at work and play

Guided Walk Adelaide BG 94 KB

Learning more about Wittunga BG 71 KB

Christmas lunch 47 KB

Schomburgk Pavilion