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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Natalie Vikhrov

'There's so much interest in this': Giant palms craned in through roof of Canberra's new 'living laboratory'

Giant palm trees will be brought in from Queensland and then craned in through the roof of the long-awaited 'floating cube' conservatory before it opens to the public next year.

Construction of the 17-metre-tall Ian Potter National Conservatory at the Australian National Botanic Gardens is expected to finish next May, after which it will be filled up with hundreds of rare and threatened native and tropical plants.

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