The natural bushland covers a number of ecosystems including swamps, perched lakes, stringybark woodlands and also a large remnant of what was called the Sandringham heaths. Access is via the South Gippsland Highway off Balarto Road. A number of the SGAP Study Groups have been co-operating with the staff of the Botanic Gardens to establish special collections. There is also an extensive collection of eastern Australian Banksia species which includes varieties, forms, natural, hybrids and cultivars. The Gardens are open from 9am to 5pm daily except Christmas Day, Good Friday and days of total fire ban.
Entry is free and picnic facilities, barbecues and walking tracks are available.
Further information from PO Box 185, Cranbourne, Victoria, 3977. The Park is still in the process of being redeveloped and planted with native plants. It is understood that explorers Burke and Wills started their trek from Royal Park. Wartook Gardens, Halls Gap Wartook Gardens is situated in the beautiful Wartook Valley, on the western edge of the massive 1670 square kilometre Grampians National Park, in western Victoria. It is three and a half hours driving time from Melbourne, via the Western Highway to Ararat, and into Halls Gap, on the main Horsham - Halls Gap Road, just 28 kilometres from Halls Gap.