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Take a look at our Special Events Calendar before you plan your next visit. We’d love you to attend one of our upcoming events or exhibitions! CLICK HERE to download.

The Hunter Region Botanic Gardens cover an area of more than 130 hectares, much of which has been preserved as natural bushland.

To welcome visitors, the Gardens have a Visitor Centre, cafe, gift shop and reference library. Devonshire teas and light lunches are served daily, or visitors can picnic in the Gardens. Walks and excursions are organised regularly, and there is a program of special events.

Easy walking trails provide access to the natural bushland with its mature blackbutt, angophoras and swamp mahogany forests and its understorey of more than 150 native plants. Their forests are the natural habitat of goannas, wallabies, lizards, brushtail and ringtail possums, sugar gliders, bats, a small group of resident koalas and many birds.