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Red Centre Garden

Perhaps the most driest of all gardens you could end up finding in the botanic gardens. With flora from all over the Outback (except coastal Western Australia), it may really surprise you on the diversity of Outback flora.

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Rainforest Gully
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Banksia Garden and Centre
Reflects the flora more seen in the coastal parts of mid-Western Australia, part of the Outback, and most of what is seen here requires quite a long drive from Perth. For the most part however, what you see here is much more colourful than the flora seen in the Red Centre garden. The nearby Banksia Centre is occasionally open, but not all the time.