Step into Climate-Smart Gardening this Adelaide Climate Action Week!

Discover how beauty and resilience can thrive side by side in Adelaide Botanic Garden's Mediterranean Garden Tour, a special experience to inspire the way we garden for the future.

Be guided by Dr Leonie Scriven, Deputy Director Living Collections, Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium on this tour to uncover how the garden was created and practical ideas and design principles to help you:

Garden for the future

Build biodiversity and habitat

Garden as a community

As our climate continues to shift toward hotter, drier conditions, the Mediterranean Style Garden offers both inspiration and real-world solutions. Whether you're a keen gardener or just starting out, you’ll leave with simple, achievable ways to cultivate a garden that is waterwise, climate-ready, full of birds and wildlife, and bountiful through the seasons.

Join us this Adelaide Climate Action Week and reimagine what your garden can become.

About Dr Leonie Scriven

Leonie is the Deputy Director Living Collections at the Botanic Gardens and State Herbarium. Leonie has managed public open space, parks and botanic gardens around Australia, and lead public realm development, community engagement, visitor programming, master planning, and infrastructure delivery. Leonie holds a doctorate in taxonomy and palaeobotany, plus business administration and company Director qualifications. She is Deputy Chair of the Botanic Gardens Australia and New Zealand Board and of the Horticultural Media Association SA.

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