Orange Botanic Gardens

Orange Botanic Gardens is a 17-hectare public botanic garden in Orange, New South Wales, located on Moulder Street near the city centre. Established as a Bicentennial project and opened in 1988, it showcases cool-climate and native Australian plant collections. The gardens feature themed areas including a rose garden, native garden, billabong and heritage garden, serving as a major recreational and educational attraction for the Central West region.

Visitors can explore landscaped themed gardens set around a central billabong and open lawns. The site includes cool-climate exotic plantings, an Australian native garden, rose garden, heritage and sensory gardens, and a conservatory. Paved paths connect garden rooms, picnic areas and water features. The setting is tranquil and park-like, suitable for walking, photography, picnicking and self-guided exploration of plant collections and seasonal displays.

Developed as Orange's Australian Bicentennial project and officially opened in 1988 on former agricultural land. Planned from the mid-1980s to create a cool-climate botanic garden suited to the Central Tablelands, the gardens have been progressively expanded with themed collections, a billabong, conservatory and community plantings.

The gardens serve as a major community, educational and recreational asset for Orange and the Central West, showcasing regional horticulture, native flora and cool-climate gardening, and hosting community events, education programs and seasonal displays.