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===Australia=== The [[Ballarat Botanical Gardens]] contain a significant collection, many of them about 150 years old. Jubilee Park and the Hepburn Mineral Springs Reserve in [[Daylesford, Victoria|Daylesford]], Cook Park in [[Orange, New South Wales]] and Carisbrook's Deep Creek park in Victoria both have specimens. Jamieson Township in the Victorian high country has two specimens which were planted in the early 1860s.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} In Tasmania, specimens can be seen in private and public gardens, as sequoias were popular in the mid-Victorian era. The Westbury Village Green has specimens with more in Deloraine.{{citation needed|date=June 2019}} [[The Tasmanian Arboretum]] contains both ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'' and ''Sequoia sempervirens'' specimens.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.tasmanianarboretum.org.au/PlantList.html#QuSp |title=A listing of species planted in the Tasmanian Arboretum |website=tasmanianarboretum.org.au |publisher=The Tasmanian Arboretum Inc. |access-date=3 June 2019 |language=en |archive-date=4 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190304151556/http://tasmanianarboretum.org.au/PlantList.html#QuSp |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Pialligo, Australian Capital Territory|Pialligo]] Redwood Forest consists of 3,000 surviving redwood specimens, of 122,000 planted, 500 meters east of the [[Canberra Airport]]. The forest was laid out by the city's designer [[Walter Burley Griffin]], though the city's [[arborist]], [[Charles Weston (horticulturalist)|Thomas Charles Weston]], advised against it.<ref>{{cite web |title=Pialligo Redwood Forest |url=https://visitcanberra.com.au/attractions/56b23b61b042386245d42f21/pialligo-redwood-forest |website=VisitCanberra.com |publisher=Canberra and Region Visitors Centre |access-date=3 June 2019 |language=en |archive-date=3 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603072553/https://visitcanberra.com.au/attractions/56b23b61b042386245d42f21/pialligo-redwood-forest |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[National Arboretum Canberra]] began a grove of ''Sequoiadendron giganteum'' in 2008.<ref>{{cite web |title=Forest 33 β Giant Sequoia |url=https://www.nationalarboretum.act.gov.au/living-collection/trees/tree-descriptions/forests-and-trees/forest-33 |website=nationalarboretum.act.gov.au |publisher=National Arboretum Canberra |access-date=3 June 2019 |language=en |archive-date=3 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603072557/https://www.nationalarboretum.act.gov.au/living-collection/trees/tree-descriptions/forests-and-trees/forest-33 |url-status=live }}</ref> They also grow in the abandoned arboretum at [[Mount Banda Banda]] in [[New South Wales]].{{citation needed|date=June 2019}}
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