Volunteer Guide and visitors setting out on a guided walk

Off the Beaten Track - Guided walks explore the Gardens

Each month this year, Volunteer Guides will dedicate a week to specially-themed walks.

As well as their regular 11am walks, they will conduct additional 2pm walks during the theme week. These walks will all be free.

The theme for June is 'Off the Beaten Track'.

A volunteer guide will take you to parts of the Gardens not frequently visited to see beautiful plants in out-of-the-way spots. Each walk will feature some examples of work done by Gardens staff to conserve our vulnerable, threatened, and endangered native plants, as well as plants currently in flower.

The special walk themes for the rest of 2021 are:

July 12-18 Plants from Gondwana (complementing the Megafauna on display)
August 9-15 Colour in Winter
August 30 - Sept 5 Wattle Walks (celebrating Wattle Week)
October 4-10 Spring Flower Walks
November 8-14 Fire and Water Walks

LATEST NEWS

ANBG Library reopening to Friends and ANBG Volunteers

The ANBG Library will reopen to external users, including the Friends of the ANBG and ANBG Volunteers, on Wednesday 31 March 2021 in line with Government COVID-19 directives. Janine Chandler will continue as interim ANBG Librarian until 30 June 2021, while Jane Black is engaged in projects to improve knowledge services across the Department. Janine's standard workdays are Wednesday to Friday. Self-service browsing and loans are available to those who are already registered borrowers on Monday and Tuesday.

Tuesday, 30 March 2021

John Blay walks the talk

John Blay, writer and naturalist, filled the Theatrette at the Thursday Talk on 18 March with his talk about 'Some Special Places of the South East Forests’. He spoke about the challenges of conservation in the region’s forests, along with its peoples and natural history, and the rediscovery of an important shared history pathway, the Bundian Way. After the talk, John signed copies of his books, and then led a group on a walk up to the plantings of Acacia blayana in the Gardens. John discovered this species of wattle in 1982 in the Brogo wilderness, and it was named in his honour.

Monday, 22 March 2021

LOTE team May and July fieldwork sessions (all places taken)

The Living On The Edge (LOTE) project is researching the thermal tolerance of selected native plants, with financial support by the Friends. The opportunities for members of Friends to join the LOTE team in their fieldwork sessions at Charlottes Pass over 4-15 May, and in arid lands at Gundabooka National Park (northwestern NSW) over 1-16 July, have now been fully subscribed; see more details. For those with more general interest in the project, Prof. Adrienne Nicotra will present the Thursday Talk to Friends on 15 April.

Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Updated ANBG Eucalypt Discovery Walk

The Eucalypt Discovery Walk, a self-guided tour that takes in 22 iconic Eucalypts in the Gardens, has been updated with a new guide brochure and new signage. The updated walk has been readied in time to celebrate National Eucalypt Day on 23 March 2021. The new brochure is available from the Visitor Information Centre and can also be downloaded in PDF format (1.95 MB).

Wednesday, 10 March 2021