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2024
Fronds 106 April 2024
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- Getting to know the peas of the Southern Tablelands
- Searching for seed
- The Rare Bloom Project
- Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- Our Bugs, by Bronwyn Bancroft
- South Coast Ferns – A complete guide to the ferns and fern allies of the NSW South Coast, by Kevin Mills
- Friends Briefs:
- The Friends Public Fund has changed
- A short history of the Friends of ANBG Public Fund
- 24th Photographic Competition for Students
- Vale John Connolly
- Photo: On the Edge
- Butterfly walks
- Gardens Shorts:
- Director's Report
- Introducing new Executives
- New front entry banners
- Launching the Plant Science Learning Hub
- New Bushfire Boundary Suppression System
- Lighting around cafe deck and Friends Lawn
- Conservation progress for Almaleea capitata, Slender Parrot Pea
- Conservatory update: final preparations
- Sharing seed banking with Anangu Traditional Owners
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks: April to August 2024
2023
Fronds 105 December 2023
(PDF format 1.9 MB)
- Pollinating young minds: Developing a Plant Science Learning Hub
- Nestling to fledgling of a Wedge-tailed Eagle
- Getting ready for the new Conservatory
- Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Plant Recognition Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guide Opportunity
- Friends Briefs:
- Friends Annual General Meeting
- President’s Report
- Treasurer’s Report
- Welcome to new Council Members
- Executive Director’s Report
- Congratulations to new Life Members
- 24th Photographic Competition for Students
- Wake up with the Birds, Spring 2023
- Gardens Shorts:
- The Tropical Greenhouse Volunteers Program
- National Seed Bank visits Uluru Kata Tjuta
- A bright future for the Small Purple Pea
- New faces at the National Parks Conservation Trust
- Plant pest surveillance at the ANBG
- Safe custody of Native Guava
- Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- Futureproof Your Garden – Environmentally sustainable ways to grow more with less
- Australia: Country of colour
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks: February to April 2024
Fronds 104 August 2023
(PDF format 1.3 MB)
- Kakadu to Canberra: Preparing for the new Conservatory
- Mario Russo: The man behind the sign
- Ferns – a journey of wonder and discovery
- Conserving Australia’s rarest Macadamia
- Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Survive and Thrive
- Friends Briefs:
- Friends of ANBG Student Scholarships
- Recent Scholarships
- The Don Beer Memorial Scholarship
- 2023 Annual General Meeting
- More than a garden
- Appointment of President and Patron of AAFBG
- New look for Friends
- Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- Australian nature from the heart. The paintings of Sally Elmer and Peter Slater
- Dust makers. Edited by Penny Jaye and RA Stephens
- A continental bird
- Gardens Shorts:
- Executive Director's Report
- Hidden no more: Digitising the cryptogam collections
- Plant collecting in high elevation cloud forests
- MEGAfauna: A walk through time!
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks: August to December 2023
Fronds 103 April 2023
(PDF format 1.1 MB)
- Tropical conservatory takes shape
- Recent ANBG work to conserve Dampiera fusca
- The only good snake is a live one
- Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Photographic Group
- Gardens Shorts:
- Executive Director's Report
- Record visitor numbers
- Snakes Alive! returns to the Gardens
- New School Holiday Program trialled
- Using the Gardens as a horticultural research site
- Friends Briefs:
- Recognition of our wonderful volunteers
- Riding in style
- Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- A Canberra Nature Journal by Dr Fiona Boxall
- More Australian Birding Tales – A highly personal account of birding, life and travel in the Land Down Under by R. Bruce Richardson
- Summer Butterfly Walks
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks: April to July 2023
2022
Fronds 102 December 2022
(PDF format 1.26 MB)
- ANBG's seed science research
- A tale of two gardens and native bees
- Christmas Island National Park – a unique ecosystem
- Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Photographic Group
- Gardens Shorts:
- Vouchering the Gardens’ Living Collections
- Conservation and research in action
- Seeking new volunteers for the Plant Records Team
- ACT Environmental Educator of the year
- Special VIP visits to the Gardens
- Global Botanic Gardens Congress
- Conservatory volunteers begin behind the scenes
- Friends Briefs:
- AGM Report
- Spring Bird Walk
- Are you receiving the Friends e-newsletter?
- Peter Heaume (1947–22)
- Book review: 'The Road to Gondwana' by Bill Morris
- Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- 'Aussie native plants A–Z' by Joey Farrell, illustrated by Jocelyn Gibson
- 'Beachcombing – a guide to seashores of the Southern Hemisphere' by Ceridwen Fraser
- 'Curlews on Vulture Street – cities, birds, people and me' by Darryl Jones
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks: February to April 2023
Fronds 101 August 2022
(PDF format: 1.35 MB)
- Otto Ruzicka’s enduring influence
- Botanic Gardens at the heart of the Commonwealth Estate
- The ANBG Nursery’s role in plant conservation
- Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Gardens Shorts:
- Report from Executive Director
- Minister Plibersek visits Gardens
- Calling in the weeding experts
- Banksia Garden featured on Gardening Australia
- Latest in mowing technology - the ‘robo-mower’
- Friends Briefs:
- Tricia Morton 1951–2022
- 2022 Annual General Meeting returns to the Gardens
- Citizen Science Award winner
- Change to Friends Benefits
- Fronds Team interchange
- Gardens’ Friends get together
- Far from home?
- Botanical Bookshop book reviews
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks: August to December 2022
Fronds 100 April 2022
(PDF format: 2.12 MB)
- Friends Lawn now open
- A new take on the scientific value of the ANBG Living Collection
- Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Plant Science Group
- Friends history
- Recovery: photographic exhibition
- Flowers visited by the Metallic Green Carpenter Bee in the Gardens, 2017–22
- Banksia: the long history of an iconic genus
- Gardens Shorts:
- Report from Executive Director
- National Seed Bank and Gardens nursery provide hope for Australia’s rarest eucalypt
- Harvest time in the Seed Orchard
- Looking through the microscope
- Securing our high country flora
- From artist’s impression to reality
- Booderee Botanic Gardens to provide safe haven for Eastern Quolls
- Botanical Bookshop
- Friends Briefs:
- ACT Volunteers of the Year
- Worth her weight in gold
- Generous donation to the Gardens
- Donald Beer, 1940-2022
- Jonette McDonnell
- Calling for your thoughts on the Friends constitution
- Volunteer Recognition ceremony
- Botanic endeavour: The Florilegium Society celebrates the Banks and Solander Collections
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks: April to August 2022
2021
Fronds 99 December 2021
(PDF format: 1.67 MB)
- Some Favourite Plants from Flowers, Fruit and Foliage
- Quality control of National Seed Bank collections
- From cultivated plant to environmental weed
- Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Volunteer Guides
- Nature Journaling
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Friends History
- Thursday Talks 2021 - a Half Year in Review
- Help record Gang-gang behaviour
- Butterflies are Back!
- Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director
- Behind closed gates
- Curating historic collections
- A guide to propagating Norfolk Island Plants
- Australasian Seed Science Conference goes virtual
- A click ahead for school excursion bookings
- New Director of Philanthropy – Parks Trust
- Obituary: Estelle Margaret Canning
- Botanical Bookshop
- Friends AGM
- Friends Briefs
- Life Memberships
- Obituary: Bev Fisher
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks
Fronds 98 August 2021
- Northern Precinct Development – New National Seed Bank and Horticulture Centre
- Friends Briefs
- Wake Up with the Birds
- New Friends group: Nature Journaling at the Gardens
- Schools Photographic Competition: explore the Gardens with your camera
- Targeting threatened species in the ANBG nursery
- Telling the Time by the Sun: An Enlightening Afternoon
- Friendly Chatter
- Growing Friends Photographic Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Volunteer Guides
- Recovery: 2021 Photographic Competition & Exhibition
- President’s Report
- The ANBG: a natural functioning ecosystem as exemplified by its insect fauna 12
- Botanical Bookshop
- Uncovering the secrets of the Superb Fairy-wren
- Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director's Report
- MEGAfauna exhibition
- Summer Sounds
- Weedy vols - horticulture volunteer trial
- We need your photos!
- National Seed Bank
- More than a word
- Letters to the Editor
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Thursday Talks — August to December 2021
Fronds 97 April 2021
- Homework – John Wrigley’s photos
- William Baxter – ‘so excellent a collector’ of the ‘curious and rare’
- Discovering Butterflies
- Redevelopment of the East Core Precinct
- Report from the Friends’ President
- Banksia Garden - pruning banksias
- Friendly Chatter
- Botanical Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Plant Science Group
- Botanical Bookshop
- Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Working to save Australia’s rarest Macadamia
- Crowea ‘Rockstar'
- Going virtual - adapting to a COVID world
- 2021 Volunteer Botanical Training Program goes virtual
- Conserving Syzygium paniculatum, Magenta Lilly Pilly
- Bushfire recovery boost to alpine seed collecting
- Secretive Slime Moulds – new book launched
- A bequest to protect Australian plants
- National Seed Bank building design plans and Seed the Future online auction
- Friends Briefs
- The Friends 30th Birthday Party: Bubbles, Birthdays and Banksias
- What’s on at the Gardens - April 2021 to August 2021
- Thursday Talks - April to August 2021
2020
Fronds 96 December 2020
- The Banksian Herbarium at the Natural History Museum London
- 50 Years Ago, from the Gardens’ Image Collection
- Book review: Black Mountain – a Natural History of a Canberra Icon
- Grasses in the Gardens
- My place in the landscape
- The underground story in the Banksia Garden
- Book Review: Miracle on Black Mountain – A History of the ANBG
- Friends Funded Projects, pullout double page with map
- Friends ANBG, Life Members 2020
- Friends Annual General Meeting
- Competition: Win your own copy of Banks
- Botanical Bookshop
- Spotted pardalotes, ANBG
- Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Banksia Garden Officially Opened
- The Job of a Lifetime
- Propagation Success for Dales Waterfall Fern
- 50 Years Celebrated with Stamps
- History in the Making
- Growing your own
- Book review: Banks
- Book review: Field Guide to the Orchids of the Southern Tablelands
- Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Thursday Talks
- Friends Briefs
- From the President
- 2020 Volunteer Botanical Training Program
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 95 August 2020
- Why Friends matter
- George Caley and Daniel Moowattin: a partnership of naturalists
- The birth of the Friends of the ANBG and its sequel
- Botanical Bookshop: an update
- Sydney Parkinson, botanical draughtsman to Banks
- Tree ferns and forest disturbance
- Ian Potter National Conservatory
- Struggling to survive: depicting one of the world’s rarest eucalypts
- Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden
- Garden Shorts
- Report from the Executive Director
- Putting Systems in Place to Stay COVID-19 Safe
- Changes to the 50th Anniversary Program
- Banksia Garden update
- Friends Briefs
- Friends 30th Anniversary Vase
- Friends’ AGM – to have and to hold
- Online membership renewals
- Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Steve Galliford (1952 -2020), ANBG Volunteer Guide
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 94 April 2020
- The Banks Royal Commission
- Banksias: Second Edition book launch
- Botanical Bookshop
- SEEDS: sponsorship, new staff, a conference and an exhibition
- Hope for wild tropical mountaintop plants
- Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens' fire, New Year's Eve
- Botanical heritage on fire
- Garden Shorts
- Recovering from the hail storm
- Report from Executive Director, Judy West
- Let the 50th Anniversary celebrations begin!
- Paradise Lost
- Sharing inspiration beyond the Gardens’ gates
- Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Friends Briefs
- 2020 Volunteer Botanical Training Program
- Vale Denise Newman
- Vale Barbara Daly
- What's On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks
2019
Fronds 93 December 2019
- Qualup Bells - Pimelea physodes - a showstopper
- Now you see them, now you don’t: a threatened species walk
- From 'Banksia Centre Garden for the Disabled' to 'Banksia Garden' for all
- Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Life Membership – Anne Campbell
- Schools Photo Exhibition
- Collaborating for the future
- Book Review
- Snapshot of celebratory events 2020
- Friends Annual General Meeting; major projects and related activities
- Report to the ANBG Friends AGM, Dr Judy West
- Plants from the past — plants for the future
- Gardens Shorts
- Grow your own Australian National Botanic Gardens plants
- Australian Crop Wild Relatives
- A new form of seed dispersal with Australian Seed Bank stamps
- Australasian Seed Science Conference 2020
- Friends Briefs
- A Range of New Projects for the Gardens
- Wake up with the Birds, 2019
- Telling the time by the Sun – an enlightening afternoon
- Summer Sounds 2020, Volunteers needed
- Botanical Bookshop
- What's On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks
Fronds 92 August 2019
- Behind the safety fence — the Banksia Garden
- Linking woody weed removal in ANBG with collections management
- Friends and the Seed Bank: X-raying Seed
- History in the carpark
- Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Photographic Group
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Native Orchid Conservation
- The Solander Garden at the Swedish Embassy
- Botanical Bookshop
- Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- The Gardens turn 50 next year!
- Ex-situ conservation of the Christmas Island fern Pneumatopteris truncata
- Connection to Country through language
- Threatened Species Children’s Art
- Competition
- Friends Briefs
- Tony Wood: 22 January 1942 - 31 October 2018
- Schools Photographic Competition: explore the gardens with your camera
- Wake Up With the Birds 2019
- What's On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks
Fronds 91 April 2019
- From the President
- Seedy Happenings in Norfolk Island
- Fire and Bushland
- Donation to ANBG Library & Archives
- Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Cook and the Pacific: the Australian plants
- ‘Kwikpik’ – accessing the pictorial history of the Gardens
- Botanical Bookshop
- Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Goats in the Gardens
- Mountain Rescue — high altitude tropical plants
- Gardens contributes to Saving our Species
- Carramar Koala Quest
- Luminous Botanicus IV: Shade of Trees
- Friends Briefs
- Find a Plant
- Summer Sounds
- Butterfly Walk with Suzi Bond
- What's On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks
2018
Fronds 90 December 2018
- Threatened species in the ANBG nursery
- Preparing a Banksia Garden in the ANBG
- Donation of award winning artworks
- What's new in the ANBG Image Collections?
- Friends Life Membership
- Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Growing Friends
- Botanic Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
- Schools Photographic Exhibition
- Let's talk about Thursday Talks
- Paradise Lost — Daniel Solander's Legacy
- Friends AGM — Major Projects & Related Activities
- Gardens Shorts
- Ranger's Who Did That trail wins award
- Blooming Banksias in the Proteaceae section
- Pomaderris Garden – a living experiment
- Introducing Tiffeny Horwood
- Botanical Bookshop
- Yunnan — a province of plant riches
- Friends Briefs
- Donors to the Public Fund of the Friends
- Wake Up with the Birds, 2018
- Summer Sounds 2019, Volunteers needed
- What's On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks
Fronds 89 August 2018
- Saving for the future
- Protecting the Eurodoballa Regional Botanic Gardens Wallace Herbarium
- A closer look at ants on Black Mountain
- Crop Wild Relatives seed conservation at Kakadu NP
- Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Guides and other Friends trip to Sydney
- Tree changes at the ANBG
- Discovering Biodiversity: A vision for taxonomy and biosystematics 2018-2027
- Bushland Nature Walk — Regeneration
- What's new in the ANBG Image Collections?
- Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director’s Report
- Introducing Sebastian Lang
- Conservation Research Garden gets official attention
- World Bee Day
- First strike for future display garden
- Take a ride on the wild side
- Botanic Gardens Day
- Botanical Bookshop
- Friends Briefs
- David Mellowship
- Friends Walks: New plantings in the Rainforest Gully
- What's On, including Thursday Talks
Fronds 88 April 2018
- Digitising lichens and more
- Seed imaging project — a hidden world exposed
- Vibration pollen collection at flowers of native lasiandra, Melastoma affine & the Darwin hypothesis
- Eucalyptus dye research at the ANBG
- Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Guides
- Growing Friends
- Friends Botanic Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
- An ANBG role in high altitude tropical plant conservation
- What's new in the ANBG Image Collections?
- Gardens Shorts
- New librarian promotes botanical resources
- What’s happening in the Grassy Woodland Garden?
- Botanical interns 2018
- Friends Briefs
- Gardens of the high country at Nimmitabel
- Summer Sounds Success
- Botanical Bookshop
- What's On, including Thursday Talks
2017
Fronds 87 December 2017
- The Myall Gall Midge
- Friends help char the timber
- Bush Blitz
- Friends AGM: major projects & related activities
- Life memberships
- Friendly Chatter
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Schools Photographic Exhibition
- Friends Botanical Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
- The ANBG Image Collection
- Public Fund Donors
- What's new in the ANBG Image Collections?
- Gardens Shorts
- New gardens for summer
- Welcoming visitors from China
- Working to save Australia’s threatened trees
- Help with Daisy family ID
- Australasian Botanic Gardens Volunteer Guides Conference
- Friends Briefs
- Native Bees in the Gardens: 2016/17 Season
- New Discounts for Friends
- Wake up with the Birds 2017
- Summer Sounds 2018 - Volunteers Needed
- Letter to the editor: From the Gardens to the Gardens via Black Mountain
- Botanical Bookshop
- What's On, including Thursday Talks
Fronds 86 August 2017
- Public Art: the new Treehouse
- Golden Wattle in the Capital on National Wattle Day
- Partnerships, projects & collaboration on rare Pomaderris
- The challenge of improving ex situ collections for threatened plants
- Botanical Bookshop Reviews
- ClimateWatch in the ANBG
- Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Gardens Guides
- Australasian Botanic Gardens Volunteer Guides Conference
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Documenting Nancy’s photos
- The biggest bee in the Gardens
- Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director Report
- Dazzling array of colours from eucalypts
- Rare plant rediscovery: following the footsteps of famous botanist
- Governor General plants the rarest Banksia in the world to launch BGANZ Open Day
- A Boost for Button Wrinklewort
- Celebrate life in the Gardens
- Friends Briefs
- Australian Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Letter to the Editor
- Book review - Discovering Australian flora: an Australian National Botanic Gardens experience
- Binoculars for the Birds!
- What's On, including Thursday Talks
Fronds 85 April 2017
- Bush at the doorstep: the Bushland Nature Walk
- Getting to know the ANBG's two Fan Grevillea populations
- What's new in the ANBG Image Collections?
- Plant translocations: opportunities & challenges for threatened plant recovery
- Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Gardens Guides
- Botanical Art Groups
- Our friend the blue-banded bee
- An invitation to all Friends, new & old!
- Book review
- Friends Briefs: Native bees in the Gardens
- Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- New bog and fen display
- Cafe under new management
- Focus on Pomaderris
- Summer seeds
- Walking with Betty
- Obituary: Pauline Wicksteed
- Botanical bookshop
- What's On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks
2016
Fronds 84 December 2016
- The Ian Potter National Conservatory
- Friends AGM: Achievements & Future Challenges
- Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Garden Guides
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Australian Glasshouses, old and new
- Flecker Botanic Garden, Cairns
- From the Red Heart: a natural and artistic collaboration
- From the Bookshop
- Friends Briefs
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Donations to the Friends Public Fund
- Native Bees in the Gardens?
- Thursday Talks Program
- Garden Shorts
- A New National Icon For The Gardens
- Renovation And Conservation
- CBRfree WiFi
- Bushland Nature Walk
- Sunset Cinema
- Friends Life Membership
- What's On, including Thursday Talks
Fronds 83 August 2016
- What's in a Gall? (Roger Farrow)
- Friendly Chatter
- Plant Science Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Garden Guides
- Photographic Group
- Glasshouse Makeover (Margaret Clarke)
- Botanical Bookshop
- Bush Blitz: helping to discover & protect rare Australian plants {Alexandra de Blas)
- Friends' Briefs
- From the President
- Geelong conference
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Gang-gang survey in ANBG
- Kangaroo Kollars
- Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- New Developments
- Scientific Trial To Save Endangered Plant
- Christmas Island Collecting
- What's On
- Lunchtime Talks
Fronds 82 April 2016
- Luminous Botanicus II
- National Seed Science Forum
- A new Tropical Conservatory
- Gang-gangs nesting in the Gardens!
- Revisiting woody weeds in ANBG
- Growing Friends
- Photography Group
- Garden Guides
- Botanic Art Groups
- Kerguelen Cabbage
- The Florilegium
- Conserving biodiversity: Threatened species project
- From the Bookshop
- Garden Shorts
- Executive Director’s Report
- Bush Blitz collections yield success
- Native bee hotel open for guests
- Meet Sue Fyfe
- Bushland Precinct walking trail
- Friends Briefs
- Walking to the Arboretum
- From the President
- Friends planning
- Aboriginal trail opening
- New faces
- Summer Sounds 2016
- Successful talks
- Plant Science Group
- What’s on in the Gardens
2015
Fronds 81 December 2015
- Another planet
- A birthday party to remember
- Many positives to report at AGM
- Eucalyptus recurva
- Visiting European Botanic Gardens
- From the Bookshop
- Friends’ Schools Photo Competition
- Book review
- Public Fund
- Where do all the leaves go?
- Garden shorts
- Stories from the pas
- Summer Sounds
- We are on Instagram
- Conservation of rare daisy
- Alpine Garden for Roger Good
- Friends briefs
- Aboriginal Trail
- Botanic Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Photographic Group
- Concert volunteers
- Eureka prize entry
- Growing Friends
- Guides
- Book sale
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 80 August 2015
- Banksias in blankets
- Macadamia integrifolia in the ANBG
- Delicate by nature
- The seedy side of life in the Gardens
- New nursery benches for Growing Friends
- Visiting Australia’s botanic gardens
- From the Bookshop
- Nature Notes
- Guides in the Gardens
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Planning for the next 20 years
- Celebrating our first 25 years
- Botanic art at NLA
- Botanic art groups
- Photographic Group
- Garden shorts
- Executive Director’s report
- Dinosaurs in the Gardens
- Education Rangers’ inspiration
- Aboriginal trail
- Revamped Seed Bank
- Friends briefs
- From the President
- Friends’ AGM Thursday 8 October
- Plant Science Group
- Forest Music
- What’s On in the Gardens
Fronds 79 April 2015
- Friends turn 25
- A trip to Luminous Botanicus
- The quest for the elusive Purple Acacia
- Bogs and fens in the high country
- Trees tell a story of climate change
- Summer Sounds by The Central
- Photography Group
- Botanic art
- Growing Friends
- The visitors we guide
- Going bush for the rainforest
- Garden shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Plants in pipes
- Seed research
- Seed collecting
- Botanical interns
- Friends briefs
- Volunteering Opportunity
- History at anniversary dinner
- Book donation
- Artful works in the Gardens
- Artful works in the Gardens
- From the Bookshop
- Jindii Eco Spa
- What’s on at the Gardens
2014
Fronds 78 December 2014
- New Council and President
- Daisies galore
- Wise words and Masterplans—Friends AGM reports
- What? Woody weeds in the ANBG?
- Karijini National Park
- Art in the Gardens with Friends advertisement
- Safeguarding Australia’s flora: a collabarative effort
- From the Library, the Bookshop, and your editors
- Growing Friends
- Guides
- Public Fund
- Photography group
- Garden Shorts
- Master Plan
- Luminous Botanicus
- Red Centre one year on
- Spot the difference 1
- Spot the difference 2
- Japanese wood artist
- Friends Briefs
- Concerts have a sponsor!
- Wanted! Concert volunteers!
- Changes to Friends’ parking permits
- Schools photo comp
- Plant Science Group
- Friends’ Silver Anniversary
- Breakfast with the Birds
- STEPping out
- AAFBG Conference
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 77 August 2014
- Our new Patron
- Postcards from Kakadu
- Twenty years growing
- The Cootamundra conundrum
- Floresco chef a winner
- Bird bonanza
- New Holland Honeyeater and other Garden birds
- Sighting ANBG Gang-gangs
- Meeting birds with Kurt Thaler
- Breakfast with the birds
- Barbara Daly retires
- Plant Conservation and Management in the Australian Alps
- From the Bookshop
- Artists-in-Residence
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- In the Night Garden with the Guides
- Art Exhibition report
- Plant Science Group
- Friends Briefs
- Growing the Art Collection!
- Glasshouse signage
- Parking Permits
- Flora Explorer
- Banks’ Florilegium
- More reasons to visit the Library
- Asteraceae Garden
- Visitor Centre Volunteers
- Woody weeding
- John Wrigley obituary
- Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Sharing is human nature
- Rangers enjoy their new Electric Vehicle
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 76 April 2014
- Enlighten!
- Summer Sounds Concerts
- My patch
- Growing Friends
- Encountering Welwitschia
- Gondwana on our doorstep
- Postcards fom Christmas Island
- Guides go a’roving
- Digging for daisies
- Art in the Gardens with Friends
- Friends Briefs
- An update from the President
- A Floral Evening
- New Friends funding for the Gardens
- Alpine Seed Ecology Project
- Book donation
- Get well soon
- Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Sizzling summer
- Stocktaking
- Leading Ecotourism
- Congratulations Ros!
- More perils of seed collecting
- Interns
- AGM addendum
- From the Bookshop
- ... through the Lens
- Plant Science Group
- What’s on at the Gardens
2013
Fronds 75 December 2013
- Schools’ photographic competition
- Acacia colei: Cole’s wattle
- More challenges ahead: July 2012 to June 2013
- Forest 20 becomes STEP
- The blue amongst the green
- Birds of the red centre: they’re out there!
- The Red Centre Garden Grand Opening
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Keeping up with the guides
- From the Bookshop
- Friends briefs
- Breakfast with the birds
- Bush Capital Celebrations
- AFBG conference
- Quiet Achiever award
- Wollemi Pine
- Twilight Dinner
- Walcott garden
- Alison McKenzie lecture
- Recovering Brindabellas
- Garden shorts
- A really rare plant
- The year in figures
- Island invaders
- A new face
- Public Art Plan
- What’s on
- Twilight Dinner booking form
Fronds 74 August 2013
- Posting the Gardens
- Keeping up with the Guides
- Termites: Australia’s ecological engineers
- From the Bookshop
- A sandstone success
- Notice of Friends’ Annual General Meeting
- A silver-gilt medal in London!
- Propagating from seed
- A planting experiment starts
- The Red Centre Garden
- Garden Shorts
- Executive Director’s Report
- Rare Hakea released
- The need for seed
- Award winning librarian
- The Gardens on ABC
- Friends’ tour - Brindabella recovery: a decade after the 2003 bushfires
- Friends Briefs
- Changes at the Visitor Centre
- New volunteer opportunity
- Eucalypt Discovery Walk
- ANBG Stocktake 17
- Murray Fagg’s books
- Broadcast emails
- Plant Science Group
- Membership fees
- Wonderful weeders!
- Bush Capital Celebration and Gum Tree Hop
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 73 April 2013
- Eucalypt Trail map and signs
- Discover eucalypts
- Giant wood moths in the Gardens
- Growing Friends
- Botanic Art Exhibition
- Guides’ activities
- Hooray for Theophrastus
- Basketry with plant materials
- Making a Meeting Place
- Friends briefs
- Centenary Dinner
- Centenary Chats
- Alpine research update
- Plant Science group
- Family Picnic Day
- Volunteer Guides Recruitment
- Buying a picture
- Work at ANPC?
- Garden shorts
- From the Exec. Director
- Long Paddock garden
- New faces
- Botanical interns
- Snakes Alive etc
- Seed Bank in 2012-13
- From the Bookshop
- Photographic Group
- What’s on at the Gardens
2012
Fronds 72 December 2012
- Leaves in the ANBG
- My patch
- Allo: the other Casuarina
- Growing Friends
- The White Waratah
- Come to South Africa
- Keeping up with the Guides
- Flavours of Aussie flora
- Collecting ladies
- Care for your Correa ‘Canberra Bells’
- Art Groups celebrate
- From the Bookshop
- Another successful year
- Livistona mariae in the Red Centre Garden
- Garden shorts
- Nominate the Gardens
- Gardens gets social
- Visions of Eucalypts
- Caring for Country
- afterDARK Dreamtime
- Friends briefs
- Eucalypt Discovery Walk
- Centenary Chats
- Visit to Parliament House
- Breakfast with birds
- Pt Augusta conference
- Experiencing the Warrabirra Wanderer
- Wattle Day launch
- Schools Photographic Exhibition
- Wollemi Pine donation
- We need some help at the Summer Concerts
- ANPC Conference
- Whats on
Fronds 71 August 2012
- Launch of Flora Explorer
- Reflections on Murray’s 42 years at ANBG
- Pruning—the kindest cut
- Ecological science meets urban amenity
- Small, brown birds with coloured bands
- Collaboration for conservation, for 21 years
- From the Bookshop
- Volunteer guides on Flora Explorer
- The Red Centre Garden—starting from scratch
- Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Endangered pea goes home
- Monitoring climate change
- Flora Explorer thanks
- Boom and bust In the Red Centre
- AfterDARK a great success
- Gardens staff return from Christmas Island
- Friends Briefs
- Friends and the Plan
- Recruiting Seed Bank Volunteers
- Friends-only tours:
- Visit to Parliament House Gardens
- Behind the Scenes tour of ANBG Nursery
- Botanic Art Exhibition
- Honoured
- Grazing
- Barbara Daly’s drama
- Right Royal trivia night
- Growing Friends
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 70 April 2012
- The Year of the Water Dragon
- Myriads of moths
- Summer seeds
- Shaping the Red Centre
- Happy retirement Sarah
- Soils ain’t soils
- Learning from Nature
- Growing Friends and plant sale
- Walking in the rain
- Friends in Style
- Eucalypts in the ANBG
- Botanical art exhibition
- Volunteer Guides
- From the Bookshop
- Photographic Group
- Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Rainforest in a new light
- New Cafe Operator!
- Collecting trips
- Gardens visitor survey
- Tribute to commitment
- Where bryophytes grow
- Brand new look
- People mover
- Botanical Interns
- Friends Briefs
- Friends comments on the draft Management Plan
- A picnic celebration
- Twilight Dinner
- Social events
- Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Janet Twigg-Patterson
- What’s on at the Gardens
2011
Fronds 69 December 2011
- Launch of bird brochure
- Breakfasting with birds
- A packed nine months. AGM reports
- Botanical Art Groups
- Red Centre Garden
- New works set in stone in the Sydney Basin
- Saving Eucalyptus imlayensis
- From the Bookshop
- The year of bush tucker
- The tastes of Australia garden
- Bush tucker from Growing Friends
- Schools Photo Competition
- Garden Shorts
- Draft Management Plan
- Splendour in the Grassy Woodland
- Plants thrive in pipes
- Staying valuable and viable
- Staff among Gardens’ treasures
- Floriade gold award
- Friends Briefs
- Warwick the Wonderful
- Seedy Vols
- Life member
- Have you renewed your membership?
- Gift membership
- Public fund donations
- Bird brochure
- Remembering Alison
- Murder in the Gardens
- Guides Conference
- Schools’ photo competition
- Books and book stand in memory
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Twilight dinner
Fronds 68 August 2011
- Our new Patron
- Seed partnerships
- Alpine seed research progress
- Alpine volunteer opportunities
- A volunteer seed collector
- Alpine research garden
- Botanical Photographic Group
- Growing Friends growing grasses
- Botanic artists at Bywong
- Volunteer guides
- A tale of eucalypts, revolution and murder
- Lollies and nuts in the rainforest
- Westbourne Woods adventure
- Friends briefs
- New Environmental Monitoring Stations
- At the Arboretum
- Ikebana
- In Memory of Nancy Dunn
- Art Blooms
- AGM on 3 November
- Autumn Plant Sale
- NGA and NLA
- Help needed at Open Garden
- ANBG at Floriade
- Garden shorts
- From Exec Director
- Helping save a nationally endangered plant: Zieria obcordata
- Clearing the way for the Red Centre Garden
- Summer Sounds January 2012
- Holiday Bilby Trail
- Feeling seedy?
- From the Bookshop
- Canberra Instiute of Botanic Art
- What’s on at the Gardens
Fronds 67 April 2011
- New President and Council
- Bombarded by butterflies
- Growing Friends plant sale
- We live in interesting times!
- Correa backhouseana
- Calling all photographers
- Making an entrance—the Grassy Woodland Garden
- From the Bookshop
- Friends Briefs
- Summer delight
- Botanical Interns Program
- Alpine seed update
- Rhythm Interrupted — Life Redirected
- Are we ‘spinning’?
- Celebrating volunteers
- Twilight dinner
- The clock
- Acacia Pollination Project
- Garden Shorts
- Myrtle Rust
- Lichen website
- Flix in the Stix
- Aquatic collecting
- Saving a species
- Alpine rock garden
- Gardening Australia offer
- What’s on at the Botanic Gardens
2010
Fronds 66 December 2010
- No sex please!
- Celebrating Forty Years
- Planting and Partying
- Gala Garden Party
- What’s in a Name winner
- Volunteer Positions Vacant
- Wattle Watching
- Orchids on Show
- Australia’s Savannas
- Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Planting out for spring
- Growing excellence in research and conservation
- Friends Briefs
- How many gumnuts?
- ‘In Flower This Week’ Walk
- 14th photo comp
- Strategic Plan
- Visit to Parliament House
- Elizabeth Bilney
- Growing Friends
- A Touching Experience
- From the Bookshop
- Photo Competion: Some Prize Winners
- What’s On
Fronds 65 August 2010
- How well do you know our gifts?
- Friends supporting the Gardens
- Beware imitation! In search of a ‘true’ national botanic garden
- Broken hearts and tea
- About the bookshop
- The Alpine Research Project...so far
- ...and a volunteer’s experience
- A pictorial history
- A special seat
- Garden shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Water, water, everywhere!
- Picturing biodiversity in the Gardens
- Set in sandstone
- 40th Anniversary
- Floriade
- Growing old gracefully
- New signage
- Tree of trees
- Growing Friends
- Friends briefs
- Book launch
- Acacia project
- Footprint Envirofest
- Visit Parliament House gardens
- Blooming art
- What will we do in the coming years?
- Alpine volunteers needed
- First Friends
- Visit of Ennio Marchetto
- Schools Photo Retrospective, 1997 – 2009
- What’s on in the Gardens?
Fronds 64 April 2010
- Friends 21st AGM
- Science challenges for the ANBG
- The RTBG: a guide’s view
- Volunteering at the Australian National Herbarium
- Philanthropy & you in the International Year of Biodiversity
- Public forum hosted by Senator Lundy
- From the Bookshop
- Friends Briefs
- Guides Intake 2010
- Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Growing Friends Autumn sale Saturday 10 April
- Friends Projects
- Book Donation to Friends Lounge
- Southern India — people and plants
- Garden Shorts
- From Executive Director
- Murray Fagg—40 years at the Gardens
- Music and Dance
- New grass trees
- Non potable water project
- Old Nursery Site
- The Sound of Summer
- Snakes Alive
- What’s on in the Gardens
- What’s in a Name? competition
2009
Newsletter 63 December 2009
- Name our newsletter competition
- New directions for ANBG
- Pointing the way
- ‘What’s in a name?’ joint winner - Backhousia citriodora
- From the Bookshop
- Botanical art
- Growing Friends
- ‘What’s in a name?’ joint winner - Wilga (Geijera parviflora): Family Rutaceae
- What’s On
- Birds in season
- Garden shorts
- Message from Judy West
- Photos of weeds
- Update on Management Plan
- Recycled water
- 40th anniversary calendar
- Friends briefs
- Summer concerts
- Senator Lundy’s Forum
- Parliament House Gardens
- Wattle Day and Exhibition
- Open Gardens
- Schools Photo Competition
Newsletter 62 August 2009
- Light on the horizon
- Alpine research and other Friends projects
- Wattle, a natural choice for symbol
- A gift of wattle
- An evolutionary tree of trees
- Celebrate our Wattle: an exhibition
- What’s On
- From the bookshop
- Botanic art groups’ exhibition
- Charles Darwin, observant gardener
- New signs coming
- Friends recommendations on ANBG management plan
- Garden shorts
- From the Director
- Non-potable water for irrigation
- Education all over
- 40th birthday calendar
- Consulting the nation
- Friends briefs
- Celebrations ahead
- Visit Parliament House gardens
- Bernard Fennessy honoured
- Growing Friends
- Open gardens
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Inaugural Catherine Blakers Award
- Wattle hosts wanted
Newsletter 61 March 2009
- Photo competition 2008
- Meeting the challeges: AGM report
- Bernard Fennessy ‘What’s in a name?’ Competition
- What’s on at the Gardens
- Letters to the editors
- Collecting at Cravens Peak
- Landscapes in the Gardens
- From the Bookshop
- Growing Friends
- Garden Shorts
- From the Director
- The Garden’s new management plan (2009-19)
- Friends Briefs
- Summer Concerts
- Damp and cool dinners
- Arboretum visit
- BGANZ DVDs
- Jardín Botánico Nacional de Cuba
2008
Newsletter 60 November 2008
- Friends at Government House
- ‘What’s in a Name?’ Swainsona formosa
- Growing Friends
- Garden Shorts
- We are not alone!
- A Plant by No Other Name
- Banksia heliantha
- Lift-out: What‛s out and What‛s on
- Friends Briefs
- Bryophyte website launch
- Spring Flower Trial
- Friends at BGANZ
- Rabbits as Landscape Gardeners
- Favoured Fauna in the Gardens
- Banking Seeds
- From the Bookshop
- More Friends Briefs
- A New Batch of Guides
- New Emails and Website
- Changes at Hudsons
- Wattle Walks
- More on Bowerbirds
- Brekkie with Birds
Newsletter 59 July 2008
- Money and the Gardens’ future
- What plant is that?
- ‘What’s in a Name?’ Competition 2008—The Winner
- From the Bookshop
- The Gardens’ Library
- Botanic Art Exhibition
- Growing Friends
- Watching Bower Birds, and more
- ANBG Alpine Collecting 2008
- Garden Shorts
- From the Director
- Spring fantasy
- Wattle week
- Friends Briefs
- Flowers and fog
- Arboretum Friends
- Our Nation’s Garden
- Orange Friends Conference
Newsletter 58 March 2008
- Time to start writing!
- A challenging year
- Eucalyptus flindersii
- From the Bookshop
- Acacia maidenii
- Growing Friends
- ‘Our Nation’s Garden’ photo competition
- Gardens shorts
- From the Director
- New Watering Technology
- Good news story
- Australian Biological Resources Study
- Did you know?
- Helen Joan Hewson
- Friends briefs
- Grazing in the Gardens
- Concert season 2008
- Guides’ gigs
- Botanical Resource Centre
- Guides intake 2008
- Volunteer morning tea
- Botanical Art Exhibition
- Catherine Blakers
2007
Newsletter 57 November 2007
- Welome to Her Excellency Mrs Marlena Jeffery, our new Patron
- ‘Boobook...Mopoke...Morepork’
- Some lesser known ACT orchids
- Araucaria cunninghamii Hoop Pine
- New ANBG Botanical Resource Centre
- Living collection review
- Diseases in the garden and Gardens
- Growing Friends
- From the Bookshop
- Friends Briefs
- Death of a dinosaur
- Summer concerts
- Welcome Stephen
Newsletter 55 March 2007
- Welcome to the new Director
- The Bernard Fennessy ‘What's in a Name?’ Award
- Annual General Meeting—President’s (abridged) Report
- A Framework for a Shared Vision
- Watering by Computer
- Gardens’ Field Trips in the Alps
- From the Bookshop
- Friends Briefs
- New Friends’ Council
- New Membership Secretary
- Friends Public Fund
- Membership Subscriptions
- Congratulations, Alison!
- Tom Green 23 October 1944 – 15 January 2007
- The Cockatoo
- What was in Flower, March to July 2006
2006
Newsletter 54 November 2006
- Our Friend Bernard—a Thoroughly Decent Docent
- Studying Snakes in the Gardens
- The Alice Springs Desert Park
- Blooming Threads
- Original Wildflowers
- The Varied Sitella
- From the Bookshop
- News from the Acting Director
- Celebrating the New ‘Friends Cascades’
- Friends Briefs
- Summer Concerts
- Annual General Meeting
- Tasmanian Tour
- Sydney Friends Tours
- Tour Tibetan Yunnan
Newsletter 53 July 2006
- What's in a name?
- Friends' Briefs
- Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Annual Photographic Competition
- Sex and Death Exhibition
- Botanical Art Exhibition
- Special Shared Tours
- Interesting Articles
- Plant Identification
- The Brown Thornbill
- From the Bookshop
- Further Notes on Hakea pulvinifera
- Matthew Flinders and his Scientific Gentlemen
- Terrestrial Orchids
