Cant the Botanic Gardens Trust plant more trees and provide a habitat for the flying-foxes?
The landscape of the Royal Botanic Gardens itself is considered to be of heritage importance and the composition and design of the Royal Botanic Gardens is carefully planned to maintain its heritage value. The design, plant content and variety have the primary purpose of providing key plant related messages through landscape displays and the use of interpretative information. For educational and aesthetic purposes, many plantings are grouped according to scientific, geographical, evolutionary, aesthetic and horticultural history criteria. Any new plantings take a long time to mature, and with many of our most significant tree specimens now dying, we do not have time to wait. Our thematic plantings may not even suit the requirements of a flying-fox colony, even when they have matured, as they are designed with the purpose of maintaining the heritage, plant science, and aesthetic values of the Gardens in line with our Conservation Management Plan, rather than recreating habitat for wildl
