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Tasmania has much of great interest and value in the botanical realm. In both the natural and cultivated arenas, it holds fascinating diversity and is markedly different from continental Australia, largely due to its cool climatic conditions.
Tasmania contains Australia's largest tracts of cool temperate rainforest, covering around 10% of the State. Cool temperate rainforest is very different from rainforest found in warmer climates. Unlike tropical and warm temperate rainforests, there are no root buttresses or palms, and climbing plants are rare. Cool temperate rainforest is characterised by an open and verdant, cathedral-like quality; a silent, cool, dark and damp place where both the trunks of trees and the forest floor are festooned with a luxuriant carpet of mosses and lichens. In autumn and early winter in particular, the rainforest floor is dappled with an array of brightly coloured fungi. For a Tasmanian Rainforest - Notesheet which Includes: What is a Cool Temperate Rainforest?; Different Types of Tasmanian Rainforests; Where are all the Rainforest Animals?; Threats to Rainforest; Our Use of Rainforest; Where does Tasmania's Rainforest Grow?; and Further Reading and Contacts. Point those fingers to - http://www.dpiwe.tas.gov.au/inter.nsf/At... If hiking through virgin wilderness is not for you, then perhaps these destinations will tempt you? Allendale Gardens on the NorthWest Coast, 2 hectares of extensive collection of exotic trees, conifers, camellias and rhododendrons, old-fashioned roses and perennials, orchids and bulbs, trout stream with ornamental bridges, adjoining cool temperate rainforest with flat paths through fern glades and past trees over 500 years of age. Open daily October 1 - 30 April 9-6 . Ph. 03 64556 4216. Annsleigh Gardens and Tearooms situated 10 km south of Burnie, Annsleigh is an English style garden with a profusion of colourful flowering trees, shrubs and plants including hundreds of rhododendrons. Open daily from 1st September to 31 May. Enjoy home baked morning and afternoon teas or a delicious light lunch, either outdoors among the flowers or inside by a warm fire. Phone 03 64357229 Lapoinya Rhodo Garden is situated some 38 km west from Burnie, this is one of the finest rhododendron gardens for its size in Australia. This 8.5 hectare garden is surrounded by native bushland, which encourages birds and wildlife. Boasting the widest range of rhododendrons in Australasia, the gardens also include lilliums, Himalayan primulas, fuschias, azaleas and camellias. Ph 03 6445 4253 Table Cape Tulip Farm located on top of scenic Table Cape, 10 minutes drive west of Wynyard, this bulb farm is open to the public for a few weeks each year and is simply spectacular from late September into October. You are invited to walk through the hectares of beautiful blooms. Open daily Late September to mid to late October. Ph 03 6442 2012
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