The Honiara Botanic Gardens are located in Rove, Honiara, Solomon Islands. They are about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) west of the main center off the Tandai Highway on Garden Drive (opposite the Iron Bottom Sound Hotel). Garden Drive meanders around the prison complex and is just past the Solomon Islands Broadcasting buildings.
The Rove Botanical Gardens is located immediately behind the Rove Prison. Once a showpiece of Whitmore's collection and Geoff Dennis gardening the gardens deteriorated in the 1980s. Following a publication by C.P Henderson and I.R Hancock in 1988, a New Zealand volunteer David Glenny, Geoff Dennis, and Myknee Qusa Sirikolo rehabilitated the collections in 1990.
Photos of Honiara Botanical Gardens at Rove-
Rove Botanical Gardens, Rove, Honiara Solomon Islands
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Panoramic photo of Rove Creek at Botanical Gardens behind prison.
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Panoramic photo of Botanical Gardens, Rove Honiara Solomon Islands. Note the hanging spot marked on the sign
References
- Geographic Information Unit (June 2004). HONIARA LOCATION GUIDE. Department of Lands and Survey. p. 205.
- Bennett, Judith A. (2000). Pacific forest : a history of resource control and contest in the Solomon Islands, c.1800 - 1997. Leiden : Brill Academic ISBN 90-04-11960-4. Retrieved 27 April 2015.