Currency Creek Arboretum open day & guided tours Australian Garden Calendar


Currency Creek Arboretum

The Currency Creek Arboretum is located in the Australian state of South Australia near the small town of Currency Creek and south of the state capital of Adelaide. CCA is a 32-hectare specialist Eucalypt arboretum and research centre, composed solely of Australian native plants. More


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek (postcode 5214) is a township and locality in South Australia on the western shore of Lake Alexandrina about 6 km north of Goolwa, beside a seasonal stream bearing the same name - Currency Creek - which flows into Lake Alexandrina.


Currency Creek Arboretum open day & guided tours Australian Garden Calendar

Native Eucalypts of Victoria and Tasmania, South-eastern Australia. (2022) Eucalypts of Western Australia, the South-west Coast and Ranges. (2019) Smaller & Taller Eucalypts for Planting in Australia. (2016) Native Eucalypts of South Australia. (2013) Atlas of Leaf Venation & Oil Gland Patterns in the Eucalypts.


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Currency Creek Arboretum (CCA) is a specialist eucalypt arboretum ('zoo of trees'), with its main purpose being research into Australia's most dominant natural group of plants, the eucalypts (genera Angophora, Eucalyptus and Corymbia ). Currency Creek Arboretum was established and is managed by Dean Nicolle and is largely self-funded.


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek Arboretum boasts the world's largest collection of eucalypt species, with over 800 species and over 8000. Free 1 hour and extended 2 hour guided tours of the arboretum by eucalypt expert and arboretum curator Dean Nicolle, beginning twice daily at 10 am and 2 pm. Don't forget a hat and good walking shoes!


Currency Creek Arboretum

Dean Nicolle at the Currency Creek Arboretum, one of the most important plant collections in the world. ( Supplied: Dean Nicolle ) Dr Nicolle began collecting eucalypt seedlings nearly 30 years.


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek Arboretum boasts the world's largest collection of eucalypt species, with over 900 species and over 10,000 individual trees planted over 32 hectares. From 9am till 4.30pm Join a free one hour, or extended two-hour, guided tour of the arboretum with by eucalypt expert and arboretum curator Dean Nicolle, beginning twice daily at 10am and 2pm.


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek Arboretum (CCA) is a specialist eucalypt arboretum ('zoo of trees'), with its main purpose being research into Australia's most dominant natural group of plants, the eucalypts (genera Angophora, Eucalyptus and Corymbia). Currency Creek Arboretum open days and guided tours Currency Creek Arboretum


Currency Creek Arboretum Open Day & Guided Tour Australian Garden Calendar

Resource Currency Creek Arboretum is a specialist eucalypt arboretum focused on education and scientific research into Australia's most dominant and iconic group of plants, the eucalypts (genera Angophora, Corymbia and Eucalyptus ).


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek Arboretum was established and is managed by Dean Nicolle and is largely self-funded. The arboretum has the largest collection of Eucalypt species in the world, with over 900 species and subspecies (and over 8000 individual plants). This is almost double the number of Eucalypt taxagrown on any other one site elsewhere.


Currency Creek Arboretum

Meet at Currency Creek Arboretum, about one hour's drive south of Adelaide city centre. Follow the signs from Adelaide Place, which joins Alexandrina Road (the Goolwa to Strathalbyn road) about 1.5 km north of Currency Creek, about 19 km south of Ashbourne, and about 26 km south of Strathalbyn. Supported by CCA open days


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Welcome Welcome to the web site of Dean Nicolle. Dean Nicolle is a consultant arborist, botanist and ecologist specialising in the systematics and ecology of the eucalypts (genera Angophora, Eucalyptus and Corymbia) and in the arboricultural assessment of trees.


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek Arboretum has the largest living collection of eucalypt species in the world, with over 900 species and subspecies (and over 7000 individual plants) planted on the site. The arboretum was established and is managed by Dean Nicolle and is largely self-funded. Find out more


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek Arboretum is the only place in the world where you can see over 90 per cent of Australia's eucalypt species in one spot. It's an hour south of Adelaide and is the obsession of Dean Nicolle. The arboretum covers 32 hectares and comprises over 8,000 trees - many of which haven't been grown in cultivation before.


Currency Creek Arboretum

The Currency Creek arboretum is about an hour's drive south of Adelaide city centre. Follow the signs from Adelaide Place in Currency Creek, which joins Alexandrina Road (the Goolwa to Strathalbyn road) about 1.5 km north of Currency Creek. It's about 19 km south of Ashbourne, and about 26 km south of Strathalbyn.


Currency Creek Arboretum

Currency Creek Arboretum was set up with research in mind and is used for by many researchers and organisations. For instance, there was a research burn to look at how trees regenerate after fire.