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environment.gov.au/topics/heritage/heritage-places/commonwealth-heritage-list

Jervis Bay Botanic Gardens (Booderee Botanic Gardens)

Summary statement of significance

The Booderee Botanic Gardens, formerly known as the Australian National Botanic Gardens at Jervis Bay, are important to the Wreck Bay community who have strong cultural and traditional ties to the area. The gardens were returned to the community in 1995. (Criterion A4)

It is important as an example of a mid twentieth century Australian Botanic Garden established to propagate and display Australian native plants in a naturalistic style (Criterion D2). Australian Historic Themes: 8.1.3 Developing Public Parks and Gardens, 8.10.5 Advancing knowledge in science and technology.

The gardens provide a research and teaching site based on an extensive living collection that is linked to the Australian National Herbarium in Canberra, with an emphasis on the flora of the New South Wales South Coast. (Criterion C.2)

The gardens have aesthetic significance, based on the visual effects of the white trunked eucalypts, the tree framed internal views within the garden, the textures of the rock outcrops, heathlands and other vegetation. (Criterion E1)

Commonwealth Heritage official values

Criterion: A

The place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance in the course, or pattern, of Australia's natural or cultural history

Values

The Booderee Botanic Gardens, formerly known as the Australian National Botanic Gardens at Jervis Bay, are important to the Wreck Bay community who have strong cultural and traditional ties to the area. The gardens were returned to the community in 1995.

Attributes - the whole gardens.

Criterion: C

The place has significant heritage value because of the place's potential to yield information that will contribute to an understanding of Australia's natural or cultural history

Values

The gardens provide a research and teaching site based on an extensive living collection that is linked to the Australian National Herbarium in Canberra, with an emphasis on the flora of the New South Wales South Coast.

Attributes - the living collection that is linked to the Australian National Herbarium.

Criterion: D

The place has significant heritage value because of the place's importance in demonstrating the principal characteristics of:
     1. a class of Australia's natural or cultural places; or
     2. a class of Australia's natural or cultural environments

Values

It is important as an example of a mid-twentieth century Australian Botanic Garden established to propagate and display Australian native plants in a naturalistic style.

Attributes: the whole of the gardens including endemic and introduced plants, the freshwater lake, walkways plus interpretation and public facilities.

Criterion: E

The place has significant heritage value because