Hunter Valley Gardens, Pokolbin, New South Wales, Australia.06A
Hunter Valley Gardens is a privately owned gardens in the heart of Hunter Valley wine country, located in Pokolbin, NSW, Australia. It opened in 2003 and is now open every day of the year except Christmas Day. The gardens span across 14 hectares of land, containing 10 differently themed gardens, accommodation, a shopping village, rides/events and dining. The gardens are a popular venue in the Hunter Valley for weddings and events. Hunter Valley Gardens is the largest display garden in the Southern Hemisphere. Hunter valley gardens was developed and created by the Roche Group, when founder Bill Roche retired he decided that he would finally make his lifelong ambition a reality, building a garden that would be enjoyed for generations to come. Starting construction in 1999, the team of 40–50 landscape gardeners, engineers and architects completed the gardens and it was opened in October 2003 by the premier of New South Wales.
The gardens are composed of ten individually themed gardens, influenced by different locations around the world, containing both native and exotic flora . The display gardens are divided by eight kilometres of wheelchair accessible walking paths. There are over six thousand trees, six hundred thousand shrubs and one million ground-covers populating the gardens.
Hunter Valley Wine Region
Hunter Valley is Australia’s oldest wine producing region, its got heaps of wineries. I had a bit of trouble finding good information online, the wikikpedia page is brief. here is a very basic map of one if the wine areas The official tourism site is here. Your best bet is probably to give them a ring and drop into the visitors center for a chat and to pick up a proper map. The other option is to jump on a bus tour and have everything taken care of. I've never done this so I don't really know what's good, but search around, it looks like theres a few tour companies that do day trips out of Sydney, they'll even pick you up from your hotel.
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