A walk in St Kilda Botanical Gardens

It was a very very hot day on Sunday when we took our walk at the St Kilda Botanical Gardens. The gardens were nicely tucked away from the Nepean Highway, which is one of the main highways connecting the bayside suburbs and Melbourne city.

By no means St Kilda gardens can be compared with Royal Botanic Gardens, this little garden is still worth the visit.

There is a tropical rainforest conservatory, a fountain with a sculpture of the Rain Man, a giant chess board squared by a line of tables and benches. On the tables, regular sized chessboards are set into the table tops for players to bring their own chess pieces.

What I love most is the high dome cypress hedge enclosing a very big rose garden.

If you like what you see, it's located in St Kilda, bordered by Dickens, Tennyson, Blessington and Herbert Streets. Or use the dynamic map below.

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