Fronds 111, December 2025

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In this issue

  • Worrying trends in the ANBG Superb Fairywren population
  • Lifting your game: How to improve flora and fauna photography
  • Friends Briefs:
    – Friends 2025 AGM
    – President’s Report
    – Treasurer’s Report
    – Welcome to new Council members
    – Director’s Report
    – Student profile – Don Beer Memorial Scholarship recipient
    – New Members Morning Tea
    – After dark walk
    – A visit to the STEP garden at the Arboretum
    – Wake up with the Birds
    – Snapshot: The 2025 student photo competition
    – Congrats to our student photographers!
  • Friendly Chatter:
    – Botanic Art Group
    – Growing Friends
    – Nature Journaling
    – Volunteer Guides
    – Photographic Group
  • Gardens Shorts:
    – Introducing our new Director
    – Tropical collaborations
    – Phil Hurle retires from ANBG
    – A holistic conservation approach to save the Tuggeranong Lignum
    – Shining a new light on evening tours
    – Spring clean for Crosbie Morrison pond
  • Botanical Bookshop reviews:
    – A field guide to reptiles and frogs of the ACT – Brian La Rance, Wesley Read and Bridget Lunn
    – One koala: One hundred trees – Leesa Allinson
    – On this ground: Best Australian nature writing – ed. Dave Witty
  • Alexandre Descubes’ illustrations
  • A message of thanks from NPCT
  • What’s on at the Gardens
  • Thursday Talks: February to April 2026

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