A 100-YEAR-OLD pavilion was damaged and two others destroyed by an arsonist in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. Firefighters were called to a large blaze in the gardens just before 6am on Saturday and arrived to find two more fires burning. Police said Inspiring: Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne (KATIE O'BRIEN) I got a good taste of all this during the two big loops I did east and west of the city. I was a guest of Singapore Airlines and Tourism Victoria and this turned out to be a trip I can recommend to Vandals have damaged several trees, including a 400-year-old river red gum, in an attack at Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. Gardens director Tim Entwisle says staff found the trees damaged yesterday morning. He says it appears vandals attempted to And for those looking to relax and unwind, consider the pristine beaches, botanic gardens, rejuvenating spas and native wildlife. Melbourne truly is Australia’s most stylish and dynamic city. Swampy was the word for the undulating, waterside land where Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens were established in 1846. A "small beautiful valley" was how the site was then described, but it was also flood-prone with what some deemed a boggy "backwater A 100-year-old pavilion was damaged and two others destroyed by an arsonist in Melbourne's Royal Botanic Gardens. Firefighters were called to a large blaze in the gardens just before 6am on Saturday and arrived to find two more fires burning. Police said .
As Tim Entwisle, director of Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens (and former director of conservation, living collections & estates at Kew) put it recently in The Guardian: In Australia, we have an immense job ahead of us documenting life on our 7,000,000 World Architecture Festival 2013: this year's award for the best landscape project at the World Architecture Festival has gone to a botanical garden at a former quarry in Australia. Situated in a former sand quarry in Cranbourne, outside Melbourne .
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