Friends of the ANBG

Events from this organiser

Today

  • Bushland Precinct Nature Walk

    Visitor Centre Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, Australia

    The Bushland Nature Walk meanders through the Bushland Precinct of the Australian National Botanic Gardens through open forest and with expansive views to Canberra City and Parliament House. This walk is for Friends of the ANBG only.

    $10
  • Setting up a workshop in the Crosbie Morrison Building

    Plant Recognition Group – Can you tell a rush from a sedge?

    Celia Rosser Room, Banksia Centre Australian National Botanical Gardens, Canberra, Australia

    The first PRG workshop of 2026 will be on these two key wetland families – rushes and sedges. Participants will be able to know the main features of these plants, Juncaceae and Cyperaceae with the aim of being able to distinguish between these, using local species, by the end of the workshop.

  • Craig Moritz – Discovering diversity across Australia’s tropics

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Craig Moritz, from the ANU, will talk about the true species diversity of vertebrates in the monsoonal tropics, and how this matters for science, conservation, and ecological management. You might […]

  • Australian Plants as Bonsai Exhibition

    Crosbie Morrison Building, ANBG Clunies Ross Street, Acton, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    The art of miniature trees in pots or trays started in China around 2000 years ago (penjing) and was taken up in Japan around 1200 years ago where it started to be called bonsai about 150 years ago.

    $5

  • Chris Mobbs – Bragg Street Park, Hackett: Increasing biodiversity through water harvesting

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Chris Mobbs, Convenor Bragg Street Park Volunteers, describes solving a drainage problem and creating an urban oasis with a great increase in the diversity of native plants. Residents near a neighbourhood park in Hackett came together to solve a drainage problem. They ended up creating an urban oasis. Their project was funded with a Nature […]

  • Bernadette Duncan ‘Indigenous plant names and tea tasting’

    ANBG Theatrette Clunies Ross Street Acton ACT 2601, Canberra, ACT, Australia

    Kamilaroi woman Bernadette Duncan works with her community bringing people to language and knowledge through local teas. Taste the teas as Bernadette leads a talk about using native plants for teas and bush medicine.