Westbourne Woods is an area of exotic tree plantings in the Canberra

Canberra

Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth-largest city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory , south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...

 suburb of Yarralumla

Yarralumla, Australian Capital Territory

Yarralumla is a large inner south suburb of Canberra, the capital city of Australia. Located approximately south-west of the city, Yarralumla extends along the south-west bank of Lake Burley Griffin...

 in the Australian Capital Territory

Australian Capital Territory

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The woods were established by Thomas Weston

Thomas Weston (horticulturalist)

Thomas Charles George Weston MBE was an Australian horticulturist and was responsible for the afforestation of Canberra....

 as an experimental planting area in 1913 and cover 120 hectares. The names of the woods comes from Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin

Walter Burley Griffin was an American architect and landscape architect, who is best known for his role in designing Canberra, Australia's capital city...

's original name for the area. Trees were planted in holes blasted with dynamite and Weston discovered that trees planted in blasted holes did much better than those planted in hand dug holes, probably due to the fracturing effect of the blast. By the end of 1920, George Weston's team of planters and put in 44,900 exotic trees. The Woods are on the ACT Heritage Register.