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| Event title | Date | Details |
|---|---|---|
| Gardens’ Growing Friends - Autumn native plant sale | Saturday, 8 March 2025 - 9:00am |
Please note that this sale typically sells out before 10.00am. Hundreds of plants, including groundcovers, grasses and shrubs, will be on sale from the car park between the Banksia Centre and the Crosbie Morrison Building. Sales are by card only, and pots are all $6. Find your perfect plant from this plant description list, and find out about planting and care of new plants from our guidelines. Plants are propagated by Growing Friends from cuttings or seeds sourced from within the Gardens, and all proceeds help support the Gardens. Be early as plants sell out fast! |
| Brad Desmond - 'Small Seeds, Big Impact: How dedicated small-scale projects can save Australia’s threatened flora' | Thursday, 6 March 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Join Brad, from the Australian Seed Bank Partnership, to discover the vital role of ex situ conservation in protecting Australia’s most threatened plants. Bookings open 31 January. Booking link: https://www.trybooking.com/CXZXB |
| Visit the Gardens’ Birds - now booked out | Sunday, 2 March 2025 - 7:45am |
Visit the Gardens early in the morning, and discover some of the fascinating secrets of the Gardens’ birds. The Gardens are a hot spot for bird activity, with water and nectar in abundance. Join experienced guides who will show you some of the favourite haunts of a number of birds, and tell you about their habits. Time: 7.45 am (birds like to get up early!) Meet at: ANBG Visitor Centre. Bring your binoculars (or there will be a small number of pairs to borrow if you don’t have any). |
| Friends of Black Mountain working party | Saturday, 1 March 2025 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
We are looking forward to our next work party, which will be working in the ANBG. Meet at the electricity sub-station, Frith Road, Acton. Please book at https://www.trybooking.com/CYPVB if you are planning to come. This helps us to let you know if arrangements need to change at the last minute (for example, adverse weather conditions). For further information, call Linda on 0437 298 711. |
| Visit the Gardens’ Birds - now booked out | Saturday, 1 March 2025 - 7:45am |
Visit the Gardens early in the morning, and discover some of the fascinating secrets of the Gardens’ birds. The Gardens are a hot spot for bird activity, with water and nectar in abundance. Join experienced guides who will show you some of the favourite haunts of a number of birds, and tell you about their habits. Time: 7.45 am (birds like to get up early!) Meet at: ANBG Visitor Centre. Bring your binoculars (or there will be a small number of pairs to borrow if you don’t have any). |
| Photography Group February meeting - Ben Harvey speaks on wildlife photography | Friday, 28 February 2025 - 10:30am to 12:00pm |
Ben Harvey, a well-known and highly-regarded Canberra photographer, will make a presentation on wildlife photography. The meeting will also include our regular Show and Tell segment in which participants share their photographic works and the background to them. |
| Phillippa Alvarez - 'The bottleneck and the beginning of the plant universe: thermal tolerance in the early stages of a plant’s lifecycle' | Thursday, 27 February 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
A plant will go through many stressors in its’ life, but is there a point in its’ lifecycle it is most vulnerable to stress, particularly heat stress? This talk looks at the thermal tolerance of seeds, freshly sprouted germinants and seedlings. Bookings open a month before the talk. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CXTPE |
| Photography Group - Cameras and Café walk | Saturday, 22 February 2025 - 8:45am to 10:30am |
The next Cameras and Café walk will be held on Saturday 22 February. We meet at the bus stop at around 8.45 am, then follow our interests and instincts around the Gardens. Regroup for a refreshment and conversation at Pollen Cafe at around 10.30 am. |
| Dr John Turnbull - 'Emigrant Eucalypts: successes and failures' | Thursday, 20 February 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
John, a former CSIRO forest research scientist, will trace the spread of eucalypts throughout the world. Conservation and sustainability issues with eucalypt plantations in some countries will be discussed. Bookings open a month before the talk. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CXTPB |
| Dr Jane Roberts - 'Macrophytes in upland ACT streams: overlooked and under-rated' | Thursday, 13 February 2025 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Jane, a retired ecologist from University of Canberra, will present the findings of a survey done in summer 2022, on stream plants in upland streams of the ACT. Bookings open a month before the talk. Booking Link: https://www.trybooking.com/CXTOY |
