Garden lovers will benefit from a new picnic setting built at the Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens

The Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens (SHBG) received $25,000 as part of the Foundation for Rural, Regional, Renewal (FRRR)'s Strengthening Rural Communities' Black Summer Bushfire Recovery program.

A media statement on the FRRR's site said the aim of the grant was to boost rural and regional groups, and "support projects led by local people in small communities throughout the country."

Director and chairman of the Friends at SHBG Chris Webb OAM said the picnic tables would "open up the garden a bit more".

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"It gives us somewhere else to enjoy the garden," he said.

A similar picnic setting is already on the garden's premises.

This incoming structure would be added to the "far side" of the garden, which would give attendees the opportunity to view the space from a different angle.

A total of 117 grants were provided to community groups across the country through this FRRR initiative.

One of them included putting funds towards new automatic doors to replace the heavy sliding doors at the Community Technology Centre in Robertson.

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