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| Event title | Date | Details |
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| Centenary Summer Sounds Concert | Saturday, 5 January 2013 - 5:30pm |
Key Grip is the featured band. Concerts start at 5.30pm and finish at 7.30. |
| Delicious! afterDARK | Friday, 4 January 2013 - 7:30pm |
Summer night tours of the Gardens featuring live string music and gourmet tastings of locally produced food and wine at Floresco. A wonderful way to spend a hot evening in the cool ambience of the Rainforest Gully, Rock Garden & Eucalypt Lawn. $35 per person (over 18 years only)
Online bookings essential: www.anbg.gov.au/gardens
Note: This is not a Friends event but members may be interested.
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| Ross Bennett ‘Reptiles and frogs of the ACT: how to stop worrying and love snakes!’ | Thursday, 29 November 2012 - 12:30pm |
Ross will provide an overview of our local herpetofauna, some historical insights into their status and an opportunity to dispel some of the myths surrounding the snakes in particular. Ross will bring a couple of his ‘friends’ to illustrate some points. |
| CIT/UN Photographic Exhibition | Friday, 23 November 2012 - 9:30am to Wednesday, 2 January 2013 - 4:30am |
This exhibition features the prizewinners and selected images from the joint United Nations and Canberra Institute of Technology International Year of Sustainable Energy for All 2012 Photography Competition. Open 9.30am–4.30pm at the Visitor Centre Gallery.
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| Dr John Grimshaw ‘New Trees: Recent Introductions to Cultivation’ | Thursday, 22 November 2012 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Visiting UK botanist Dr John Grimshaw will discuss new trees – recent introductions to cultivation, the subject of a 2009 book, of which he was principal author, on trees introduced in the past 35 years. The book was sponsored by the International Dendrology Society and published by the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. |
| Dr Joe Miller - 'Evolutionary and spatial diversity of the Australian flora' | Thursday, 15 November 2012 - 12:30pm |
Over the past year the research of the CANBR has been combining spatial data with phylogenetic (evolutionary relationships) data. Joe will describe the methods used and show examples from many large Australian plant lineages, including Acacia, Eucalyptus, mosses, liverworts and hornworts. |
| Growing Friends spring plant sale | Saturday, 10 November 2012 - 8:30am |
Plants on sale are propagated and sold by the Growing Friends of the Australian National Botanic Gardens from material sourced from the Gardens. Where: Small car park behind the Crosbie Morrison Centre, Australian National Botanic Gardens |
| Canberra Institute of Botanical Art Workshop | Saturday, 10 November 2012 - 12:00am to Sunday, 11 November 2012 - 11:45pm |
Workshop on Onions and Garlic, in the Crosbie Morrison Building. Costs apply, booking essential. See www.bibart.com.au/ciba/workshop/ for more information. |
| Stephen Speer - 'Spying eyes in America - What can we learn from the Smithsonian Institute and botanic gardens in the US'? | Thursday, 8 November 2012 - 12:30pm |
Stephen was one of a group of Canberra national institutions education staff who recently visited Washington DC and New York to observe how the Smithsonian Institution engages with school students and teachers. What did they learn and will this have an impact on the Gardens? What can the Gardens learn from US botanic gardens? |
| Dr Lydia Guja - 'Oceanic dispersal: can seeds survive and germinate under new environmental conditions' | Thursday, 1 November 2012 - 12:30pm |
Charles Darwin was among the first to hypothesise, and experiment with, oceanic dispersal. This is the harshest dispersal vector for seeds as they must endure an extremely saline and waterlogged voyage, are likely to be deposited hundreds of kilometres away from the parent plant, and often need to germinate under new environmental conditions. |
