Botanical garden of Geelong is located in Eastern Park at the Eastern end of the Central business district of the city. The garden was established in 1851 and, thus, is the fourth oldest Botanic garden in Australia.

In 1850 the territory of the Botanical garden was reserved as a place of public entertainment, occupying almost the entire area of the present Eastern Park. However, later directly to the garden fenced off by a fence from the territory of the Park.

By the end of the 19th century, the Botanical garden was a huge fern greenhouse, a road for carriages in length 4, 8 km, an aviary, a room for monkeys and fish hatchery. In 1859 he built a Conservatory and a greenhouse. In 1885 opened the fern greenhouse: it had 37 meters in length, 18, 5 meters wide and was located in the place where today stands the fountain of George Hitchcock. A year later, to the orangery added a pond, and a year later the third section – the total length of the greenhouse was 92 meters. But by 1920 ferns excessively expanded, and after the Second World war, the greenhouse was demolished, as the wooden structure began to collapse.

In 2002, the Botanical garden has undergone significant changes: opened a gallery for the arid climate plants and Australian plants. At the entrance put the Australian boab trees and decorated garden sculptures. Collections of plants were placed in various thematic areas. For example, in "edible Garden" you can see the plants that provide us food. In the collection of geranium are a few types of these amazingly beautiful flowers. One of the most popular galleries of the garden is a collection of roses, planted in 1995. The pride of the garden are the trees planted in the mid 19th century, such as Chilean wine raffia.

Today the Botanical gardens Geelong included in the list of heritage of the Victorian era.