The gardens are open daily from 7:30 a.m. until sunset. Additional information about the gardens' tours, plant collections and amenities can be found on the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne website.

Many people chose to spend the first day of spring – also Father’s Day – surrounded by blooming flowers at Melbourne’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. In Melbourne there seems to be more parks and gardens than any other city on earth. I ought to know ...

Queen Victoria Gardens St Kilda Rd, Melbourne VIC 3004, Australia In case you missed it, Bottega Ghianda’s reimagined Gaetano Pesce bookcase arrives in Promemoria’s New York showroom.

Melbourne's most popular running track, the Tan is a path looping around the Kings Domain parklands and the sprawling 38-hectare Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria with its 8,500 varieties of domestic ...

Garden clubs • Melbourne Garden Club meets at 10 a.m. first Fridays from September through May at the Eau Gallie Public Library, 1521 Pineapple Ave., Melbourne. Call Sandi Dix, 321-952-5618.

Cole comes from working with Australia’s Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria. For the past 14 years, he served as executive director of the Melbourne Gardens.