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  • Event dates

    05 September - 01 October 2026

  • Price

    $35 per person

    Bookings essential

    To be notified by email when the tickets are available for purchase, please register your interest in the form below.

  • Location

    Meet 10 minutes before your booked session time at the Visitor Centre, Royal Botanic Gardens Cranbourne

  • Duration

    1 hr

  • Session Times

    Dates to be announced

  • Accessibility

    The shadehouses are not wheelchair-accessible. For any specific access questions, please contact the team at: rbg@rbg.vic.gov.au

Orchid Conservation Tours

05 September - 01 October 2026
Special Tours

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See the world’s largest endangered orchid conservation program with a behind-the-scenes tour of the Orchid Conservation Program shade houses.

Orchids are among our most beautiful and intriguing native wildflowers, with Victoria home to over 400 species, most of which grow nowhere else in the world. Sadly, however, half of our native orchid species are threatened with extinction in the wild.

The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Orchid Conservation Program grows threatened orchids and plants them back out into the bush to create new wild populations and reduce their risk of extinction. Underpinning this work, the program undertakes cutting-edge scientific research on all aspects of orchid ecology, including on pollination, symbiotic fungi, propagation methods, and reintroduction science.

We aim to prevent future orchid extinctions by:

  • Storing a genetically diverse collection of seed and symbiotic fungi
  • Growing suitable numbers of our threatened orchids for reintroductions
  • Reintroducing these species to protected public and private land, where the appropriate vegetation, climate and insect pollinators are present.

Please note that the minimum age of attendees on this tour is 12 years old, and that the shade houses are not wheelchair-accessible.

Caladenia rosella
Caladenia rosella in the shade houses.

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