Campsis Newsletter – Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens

The latest issue of Campsis, the newsletter of the Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens, has just been published. This issue marks the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Association. Click here to download it.

Campsis is a good way to find out what’s happening in botanic gardens around Australia. In this issue you will find articles about:

• the 5th Global Botanic Gardens Conference, which was held in Dunedin in October 2013;
• the Australasian Conference of Volunteer Guides in Botanic Gardens, which was held in Christchurch in October 2013;
• the forthcoming Association conference at the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens in August 2014;
• the new Red Centre Garden at the ANBG;
• Heritage Weekend in Ballarat;
• recent events at Sydney Botanic Gardens;
• the opening of the Southern Highlands Botanic Gardens at Bowral, NSW;
• the centenary of Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden in Cape Town, South Africa;
• and news from many other botanic gardens including Eurobodalla, Geelong, Gold Coast, Mackay, Maroochy, National Arboretum, Noosa, Orange, Highfield, Melbourne, Tamworth, Warnambool, Daylesford.

Campsis is published electronically twice a year. It is edited by Anne Rawson, who is a member of the Friends of the ANBG and a part of the team which produces our own newsletter, Fronds.

Update: with issue 45, in November 2015, the name of the publication was changed to Eucalypt