Honiara Botanic Gardens Sirikolo rehabilitated the collections in 1990. Honiara Botanic Gardens The Honiara Botanic Gardens are located in Rove, Honiara, Solomon Islands. They are about west of the main center off the Tandai Highway on Garden Drive (opposite the Iron Bottom Sound hotel). Garden Drive meanders around the prison complex and is just past the Solomon Islands Broadcasting buildings. The Rove Botanical Gardens is located immediately behind the Rove Prison. Once a showpiece of Whitmore's collection and Geoff Dennis gardening the gardens deteriorated in the 1980s. Following a publication by C.P Henderson and I.R Hancock in 1988, a New Zealand volunteer David
Honiara with the addition of many administrative buildings, the town began to develop and grow in population. Since the late 1990s, Honiara has suffered a turbulent history of ethnic violence and political unrest and is scarred by rioting. A coup attempt in June 2000 resulted in violent rebellions and fighting between the ethnic Malaitans of the Malaita Eagle Force (MEF) and the Guadalcanal natives of the Isatabu Freedom Movement (IFM). Although a peace agreement was made in October 2000, violence ensued in the city streets in March 2002 when two diplomats from New Zealand and numerous others were murdered. In July