Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens

EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN CANCELLED

All public events and activities at the ANBG for March and April have been cancelled or postponed, due to the national effort to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus.

This is a difficult and disappointing decision for the Gardens, but is necessary to safeguard public health and safety.

The Visitor Centre is now mainly ‘self-service’, with additional signage and maps available at the desk. All guided walks and Flora tours, Thursday Talks and other public meetings and events scheduled for March and April have been cancelled, including the Summer Sounds concerts and the Plant Sale. The Banksia Festival previously set for April has been postponed until Spring.

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Growing Friends 2020 Autumn Plant Sale

Thryptomene saxicola 'Pink Lace' Photo: Fagg, M.

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR DETAILS OF THE VENUE FOR THE SALE

The Growing Friends have survived the heat, the smoke and finally the hail. Just one more setback was waiting in the wings for us. Our usual venue is now a construction site while the substantial damage done to the Banks Building during the January hailstorm is being repaired.

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Friends Library Connect, March 2020

Sat, 07/03/2020 - 6:04pm — friendseditor

The March 2020 edition of Library Connect (PDF, 483KB) includes an article on digitised Library publications, including an image of the cover of the first Canberra Botanic Gardens Growing Native Plants publication; information on the Australian Landscape Conference to be held in Melbourne 27-30 March 2020; news of an Australian Systematic Botany article by Jo Palmer from the Australian National Herbarium Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research; a selection of new books; the featured e-journal Flowering Newsletter of the Journal of Experimental Botany and From the ANBG Archive, The First Tree Brass Plaque which commemorates the planting of one of the first trees in the Gardens by the then Prime Minister Ben Chifley in 1949. (Unfortunately it attributes the wrong tree to him!)

Cover of Friends Library Connect March 2020

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Growing Friends in the summer of 2019-20

Wed, 04/03/2020 - 11:47am — friendseditor

The 2019-20 summer has been one of the worst summers ever for Gardeners in Canberra. While the activities of Growing Friends has been adversely affected by the weather, the hard work of our members has meant that we have come through the summer in a reasonable state.