Last week I was delighted to take a group of conference visitors on a tour through Brisbane's City Botanic Gardens.

I'd read a book about the first curator, Walter Hill, and picked up a few interesting facts about the gardens over the years, but this was a great opportunity to delve in more detail into what the Queensland Heritage Register describes as "the most significant, non-Aboriginal cultural landscape in Queensland, having a continuous horticultural history since 1828, without any significant loss of land area or change in use over that time."

Click to read more about the history of the gardens.