Walking around Coleraine

The Peter Francis Points Arboretum

The Points Arboretum has the foremost collection of Eucalypts in Australia. It used to be a quarry and you would have thought nothing would grow there. However, Peter Francis changed all that. His idea was to grow as many Eucalyptus trees as possible from all over Australia, at Coleraine… and it worked!

Ross Garton

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The Points Arboretum has the foremost collection of Eucalypts in Australia. It used to be a quarry and you would have thought nothing would grow there. However, Peter Francis changed all that. His idea was to grow as many Eucalyptus trees as possible from all over Australia, at Col-rain… and it worked!

This story was told by Ross Garton