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When was the last time you watched the boughs of the trees swaying gently in the breeze and felt that they were actually calling you? When was the last time you gazed at the spring bloom and felt that the world has decked up in all its finery for your eyes only? The beauties of nature reside just down the road, as the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne awaits your footsteps. The Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne is a piece of verdant greenery, located smack at the heart of Melbourne, on the south bank of the Yarra River. One of the finest gardens in Melbourne and definitely in the world as well, the Royal Botanic Gardens consists of around 87-acres of well-manicured lawns, glistening lakes, charming walkways and an air of absolute calm and tranquility hanging over the place. The Melbourne Royal Botanical Gardens is home to an astounding 12,000 species of plants, many of them constituting endangered species and some already extinct in other parts of the world. There is also a diverse range of native wildlife like the Majestic Black Swans, the Chirpy Cockatoos and the Frisky Wallabies. Other wildlife species around here include Bellbirds, Kookaburras and Possums. Apart from offering an oasis amidst the chaos, clutter and congestion of the concrete jungle around, the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne is also a haven for the nature enthusiast who is keen to know about the various faces, phases and facets of the natural world. Thus the Melbourne Royal Botanic Gardens has quite a few live collections like the Australian Rainforest Walk, Cacti and Succulents, Cycad Collection, New Caledonia Collection, Southern Chinese Collection, Tropical Display-Glasshouse and a well-stocked Herb Garden. For the environmentally conscious visitor, the one who both appreciates the bounties of nature and is conscious about its fragility, there is the Water Conservation Garden that he/ she can visit and marvel at the various ingenious means employed by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne to save precious drops of life and also come back armed with a valuable lesson or two. One of the most beautiful of the Melbourne parks and also one of the most-visited of the Melbourne tourist attractions, the Royal Botanic Gardens is an effort in the right direction to beautify a city and is also taking strides towards ecological conservation.
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