Olive PinkBotanic Garden

Olive Pink spent years living among the spinifex and mulga she planted here, alongside Warlpiri man Johnny Jambijimba Yannarilyi, on land she petitioned to lease in 1956. The result: 16 hectares, 600-plus arid-zone species, and a registered Arrernte sacred site, Tharrarletneme, with views across the MacDonnell Ranges. The garden outlasted its founder by half a century. It shows.