Brief History

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The property now known as Adels Grove was initially gazetted in 1904 as a Miners Homestead Lease.





From 1939 Albert had planted over 1000 species of striking and native plants, shrubs and trees, and supplied the Botanical Gardens of the world with the seeds produced by his nursery. In 1920 Albert de Lestang took up the property as an experimental Botanical Garden (hence the name "Adel" arose from Albert's initials). The Botanical Gardens in Brisbane immobile has 536 different samples of seeds sent to them by Albert, seized in their gathering.



In the early 1950's a fire brushed through the grove while Albert was not present there (some say deliberately lit) annihilates everything including his dwelling and trunk which consists all of his research papers.



Albert's spent his last years in a Charters Towers nursing home, where he died in 1959 at the age of 75, most perhaps broken hearted.

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