Araluen Botanic Park
Sheltered valley garden of tea-tree and lawns, named for a nineteenth-century elegy and famed for its spring tulips.
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This guide to Araluen Botanic Park in the Perth hills starts with a single word carved above its gate and traces it back to nineteenth-century poet Henry Kendall, a grieving father, and the nineteen twenty-nine promoter who borrowed his sorrow to name a Young Australia League holiday camp. You will hear how the site survived a nineteen eighty-five sale scare and became the public garden known today for its spring tulips. Stand at the entrance and read the sign before you walk in.
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