Helping the Gardens Grow

Isotropis centralis - photo (c) Narelle Aldridge 2025
Isotropis centralis - photo (c) Narelle Aldridge 2025

Illuminate '25 is the 12th annual exhibition by the Friends Photographic Group, showing in the Visitor Centre Gallery from Friday 21 November to Sunday 14 December.

The exhibition features captivating photographs taken within the Gardens, and of Australian fauna and flora in their natural environment. The works include plant portraits, close-up shots of flowers, birds and insects, intimate landscapes within the Gardens, and fauna from the Canberra region. 

All photographs on show are for sale – and they make great Christmas presents! Additional copies of some works can be ordered, and you can also choose from unframed prints, greeting cards, calendars and gift items by individual members. The exhibition is open daily from 9.30 am to 4.30 pm. Entry is free.

The Friends love and support our beautiful Gardens – the world’s largest collection of Australian native plants.

Through our programs of talks, visits and social activities, our members and visitors meet, learn, grow and enjoy the riches of this very special place. Our special-interest groups are inspired by its unique artistic and scientific opportunities.

Since 1990 we have donated around $2 million for projects in the Gardens, and members actively contribute to its horticultural, educational and research programs as volunteers.

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Walk Guide: 10 - 23 Dec 2025 (PDF, 1.6 MB)

 

 

LATEST NEWS

This farewell edition of Library Connect (PDF, 4.2 MB) has the usual listing of new books, a few articles for your interest, and a big thank you to you all from Alex Petrie, ANBG Librarian.
Thursday, 4 December 2025
View the latest issue of e-ucalypt, the email newsletter of the Australian Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens (AAFBG).
Monday, 1 December 2025
You can find the October - November 2025 edition of The Garden Path, the newsletter of the Friends of the Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens HERE.
Sunday, 16 November 2025
Our exclusive October Growing Friends plant sale was a big success. There was great interest from Friends, ANBG staff and volunteers in the 100 different species or cultivars they had to choose from. Some people wandered around the shadehouse debating which plant to buy, while others headed straight to their selected plants.  Around 800 plants were sold and the money raised will go to support various projects around the Gardens. Thank you to everyone who supported this event.  
Thursday, 30 October 2025

COMING UP

Illuminate '25 - annual Photo Group exhibition
Friday, 21 November 2025 - 9:30am to Sunday, 14 December 2025 - 4:30pm
Cameras and Cafe Walk
Saturday, 13 December 2025 - 8:40am to 10:30am
Craig Moritz ‘Discovery diversity across Australia's tropics’
Thursday, 19 February 2026 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
Bernadette Duncan ‘Indigenous plant names and tea tasting’
Thursday, 5 March 2026 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm
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