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| Event title | Date | Details |
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| Weeding Work Party 3 February 2018 | Saturday, 3 February 2018 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
We shall be weeding St Johns Wort and woody weeds in south-west slopes of Black Mountain Reserve We wish to prevent St John’s Wort overtaking the delightful Common Everlasting, Yellow Buttons (Chrysacephalum apiculatum), the dainty native Small St John’s Wort (Hypericum graminium), Chocolate Lillies (Athropodium fimbriatum) and other local native plants, many with their summer flowers. |
| Julian Cribb ‘Surviving the 21st century’ | Thursday, 1 February 2018 - 12:30pm |
Julian will talk about his latest book, which deals with the existential crisis facing humanity in our time - and what we can do about it. |
| Summer Sounds 2018 with Laura Alyce Ingram | Sunday, 28 January 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm |
Enjoy Jazz in the Gardens with Laura Alyce Ingram and dance with Canberra Swing Katz Sponsored by Icon Water and the Friends of the Gardens. All Summer Sounds 2018 concerts are on the Eucalypt Lawn at the Gardens in Clunies Ross Street, Acton, on the lower slopes of Black Mountain. All concerts start at 6.00 pm and finish at 7.30. Bring a picnic or enjoy food and drinks for sale on site. Entry $5 adults, $2 concession, children 12 years and under free. We need volunteers to help with collecting entry donations, supervising parking and transport for disabled patrons, driving the electric vehicles up to the Eucalypt Lawn, and answering queries at the Information Tent. Sign up online here. |
| Summer Sounds 2018 with Annie and the Armadillos | Saturday, 27 January 2018 - 6:00pm to 7:30pm |
Enjoy Jazz in the Gardens with Annie and the Armadillos and dance with Canberra Swing Katz Sponsored by Icon Water and the Friends of the Gardens. All Summer Sounds 2018 concerts are on the Eucalypt Lawn at the Gardens in Clunies Ross Street, Acton, on the lower slopes of Black Mountain. All concerts start at 6.00 pm and finish at 7.30. Bring a picnic or enjoy food and drinks for sale on site. Entry $5 adults, $2 concession, children 12 years and under free. We need volunteers to help with collecting entry donations, supervising parking and transport for disabled patrons, driving the electric vehicles up to the Eucalypt Lawn, and answering queries at the Information Tent. Sign up online here. |
| Weeding Work Party - 6 Jan 2017 | Saturday, 6 January 2018 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
Date: Saturday, 6 January 2018, 8:30 to 11:30am, when we will focus on woody weeds in the south-west area of the Black Mountain Nature Reserve. Meet: at the Caswell Drive car park on the mountain side of Caswell Drive. Drive FROM Belconnen Way southwards along Caswell Drive towards Glenloch Interchange, Woden, etc. Note the yellow diamond shape advisory sign showing access road on left, and the blue and white “P” sign for parking. Drive carefully into the carpark. Look for balloons. |
| ANU Public Lecture 11 December - Joseph Banks' Florilegium | Monday, 11 December 2017 - 4:00pm to Tuesday, 12 December 2017 - 5:45pm |
Joseph Banks’ Florilegium: Botanical Treasures from Cook’s First Voyage Speaker: David Mabberley Exhibition & Drinks: 5-6pm, Hancock Library, WK Hancock Building #122, Sullivans Ck Rd |
| ANBG Friends Plant Science Group - Technical Talk | Monday, 4 December 2017 - 10:30am |
Buzz Pollination of the Native Lasiandra, Melastoma affine (Melastomataceae), revisited and why plants have poricidal anthers Speaker: Dr Roger Farrow |
| Weeding Work Party 2 December 2017 | Saturday, 2 December 2017 - 8:30am to 11:30am |
Saturday, 2 December 2017 - 8:30am to 11:30am
We shall be removing woody weeds on the south/west slopes of Black Mountain Reserve. Date: Saturday, 2 December 2017 8:30 to 11:30. |
| Dr Bryan Lessard ‘All the buzz on Australia’s secret gardeners’ | Thursday, 30 November 2017 - 12:30pm to 1:30pm |
Bryan, an OCE Postdoctoral Fellow at CSIRO, will challenge many of the popular myths about Australian flies, and emphasise their status as essential pollinators of (and composters for) many iconic Australian plants. |
| ANBG Friends Photographic Group - November meeting | Friday, 24 November 2017 - 7:30am |
An early morning walk in the Gardens is scheduled @ 7.30am (meet at the bus stop).
This will be followed by breakfast in the Pollen Cafe at 9am.
This last meeting for the year will be an extended 'show and tell' of members' photographs in the ANBG Theatrette from 10:30am.
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