Anzac flower bed recreated in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden for centenary commemorations

A FLOWER bed created 100 years ago in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden to honour Anzac soldiers has been replicated for centenary commemorations.

The Anzac Star Bed, a replica of a flower bed created 100 years ago at the Garden as a tribute to the first Anzacs, in the Botanical Gardens, in Sydney on Thursday, April 23, 2015. (AAP Image/Paul Miller) NO ARCHIVING

A FLOWER bed created 100 years ago in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden to honour Anzac soldiers has been replicated for centenary commemorations.

The Anzac Star Bed remembers servicemen past and present, including 30 men from the Royal Botanic Gardens and Centennial Parklands who enlisted for action in World War I.

Four of those gardeners were killed in battle.

“This is a tribute by gardeners for gardeners in the best way they know ... demonstrating their respect for what occurred and what these men did,” NSW Governor David Hurley told AAP on Thursday at the official opening in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Gardens.

Originally published as Anzac flower bed recreated in Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden for centenary commemorations