"When the Friends of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens first formed in 1982, one fo the project envisaged for the group was the production of a book. This project lay in the to do pile until, at the suggestion of past president, John Garner, the History Group - Friends of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens - banded together to produce this book in celebration of the thirtieth anniversary of the Friends of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. An eden of loveliness is a pictorial history of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens. The book documents the relationship between the Botanical Gardens and the community ..."--Back cover.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-105) and index.