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Best Gardens in the Adelaide Hills
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Best Gardens in the Adelaide Hills

Botanic showpieces, heritage camellias and whole villages that glow in autumn.

Few parts of Australia do gardens like the Adelaide Hills. The altitude delivers a genuine cool climate, and more than a century of European-style planting means deciduous trees, camellias and rhododendrons thrive here as nowhere else in the state. These are the gardens - formal and wild - worth a slow wander.

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    Mount Lofty Botanic Garden
    Stirling

    Mount Lofty Botanic Garden

    The cool-climate showpiece - lakes, rhododendrons and winding paths that blaze with colour each autumn.

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    Carrick Hill
    Crafers

    Carrick Hill

    A grand heritage estate and garden with sculpture, woodland trails and an English-manor house.

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    Aldgate

    Stangate House and Garden

    A serene Aldgate garden famous for its camellias, opened by the National Trust.

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    Mount Lofty Adventure Hub
    Crafers

    Mount Lofty Adventure Hub

    Native bushland and walking trails wrapping the slopes below Mount Lofty.

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For peak drama, time a visit for late April and May, when the exotic plantings turn red and gold. Colour is short and weather-dependent, so check before you drive out.

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