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2025

Fronds 110 August 2025

(PDF format 9.4 MB)

Macrophytes of montane streams
Reptiles at the Gardens
Botanical Bookshop Reviews
- The Ancients: Discovering the world’s oldest surviving trees in wild Tasmania – Andrew Darby
- CAUTION! This Book Contains DEADLY REPTILES – Corey Tutt
Friends Briefs:
- Friends 2025 AGM
- Art Gift to the Gardens
- The 25th Student Photographic Competition closes 29 August
- New Friends website to be rolled out soon
- New members Morning Tea and Walk
- Student Profile – Jay Nicholson
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Photographic Group

Gardens Shorts:
- A/g Director’s update
- The autumn plant out
- Removing bunya pinecones for safety: Arborist skills in action
National Seedbank retesting program: Are collections maintaining viability in storage?
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: August to November 2025

Fronds 109 April 2025

(PDF format 6.2 MB)

What we owe to Alec Costin
Emigrant eucalypts
Friends Briefs:
- Friends gift of photograph to ANBG
- Visiting the birds in the Gardens
- A tribute to Bruce Lindenmayer
- Calling all budding photographers: The 25th Student Photographic Competition
- Butterfly Walks
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Robin McKeown, her legacy lives on
- Plant Science Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Photographic Group
Botanical Bookshop reviews:
- Orchids of the Southern Tablelands of NSW including the ACT – Tobias Hayashi & Jean Egan with Roger Farrow & Tony Wood
- The Bee Squad: Boosting biodiversity in your neighbourhood – Judy Friedlander
Book review:
- Our Grassy Landscapes: A celebration of the people who care for them – Jenny Horsfield
Gardens Shorts:
- Director’s update
- Changing of the guard
- The unexpected flowering
- Tasmanian Garden upgrades
Moving the National Seed Bank
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: April to August 2025

2024

Fronds 108 December 2024

(PDF format 6.2 MB)

An iconic Australian tree
The secret life of plants
Friends Briefs
- Friends Annual General Meeting
- Students Photographic Competition
- Friends-funded scholars
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Volunteer Guides
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Nature Journaling
Gardens Shorts
- Royal visit
- Friends-funded backpack
- Hire a venue at the Gardens
- Banksia Garden update
- How to know if an orchid is at risk of extinction
Botanical Bookshop reviews
- The Littlest Penguin and the Phillip Island Penguin Parade
- Walking the Rock Country in Kakadu: Karrire kundenge karribolknan kunwarddehwardde
- Care of Australian Wildlife
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: February to April 2025

Fronds 107 August 2024

(PDF format 4.1 MB)

Orchids found on Black Mountain
Botanical Bookshop book reviews
- That Grass Book: Identifying grasses in southern Australia. 2023, by Ellen Bennett
- One Little Dung Beetle. 2024, by Rhiân Williams
- South Coast Islands New South Wales. 2023, by Helen Moody with Mike Jefferis
A look inside the Herbarium
Wattle: A celebration for all Australians
Exploring post-fire interactions of the East Lynne Midge Orchid
Friends Briefs
- Birds of the Australian National Botanic Gardens – Paintings by Frances McMahon
- 24th Photographic Competition for Students
- Vale Jill More (1947–2024)
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
Gardens Shorts
- Director’s Report
- Tasmanian garden upgrades
- Progressing conservation trials for critically endangered Imlay Mallee
- New permanent Visitor Centre installation
- New Volunteer Guides
- Cycad expert visits the Gardens
What’s on at the Gardens
Exhibitions – Visitor Centre Gallery
Thursday Talks: August to December 2024

Fronds 106 April 2024

(PDF format 1.4 MB)

Getting to know the peas of the Southern Tablelands
Searching for seed
The Rare Bloom Project
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- Our Bugs, by Bronwyn Bancroft
- South Coast Ferns – A complete guide to the ferns and fern allies of the NSW South Coast, by Kevin Mills
Friends Briefs:
- The Friends Public Fund has changed
- A short history of the Friends of ANBG Public Fund
- 24th Photographic Competition for Students
- Vale John Connolly
- Photo: On the Edge
- Butterfly walks
Gardens Shorts:
- Director’s Report
- Introducing new Executives
- New front entry banners
- Launching the Plant Science Learning Hub
- New Bushfire Boundary Suppression System
- Lighting around cafe deck and Friends Lawn
- Conservation progress for Almaleea capitata, Slender Parrot Pea
- Conservatory update: final preparations
- Sharing seed banking with Anangu Traditional Owners
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: April to August 2024

2023

Fronds 105 December 2023

(PDF format 1.9 MB)

Pollinating young minds: Developing a Plant Science Learning Hub
Nestling to fledgling of a Wedge-tailed Eagle
Getting ready for the new Conservatory
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Plant Recognition Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Nature Journaling
Volunteer Guide Opportunity
Friends Briefs:
- Friends Annual General Meeting
- President’s Report
- Treasurer’s Report
- Welcome to new Council Members
- Executive Director’s Report
- Congratulations to new Life Members
- 24^th Photographic Competition for Students
- Wake up with the Birds, Spring 2023
Gardens Shorts:
- The Tropical Greenhouse Volunteers Program
- National Seed Bank visits Uluru Kata Tjuta
- A bright future for the Small Purple Pea
- New faces at the National Parks Conservation Trust
- Plant pest surveillance at the ANBG
Safe custody of Native Guava
Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- Futureproof Your Garden – Environmentally sustainable ways to grow more with less
- Australia: Country of colour
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: February to April 2024

Fronds 104 August 2023

(PDF format 1.3 MB)

Kakadu to Canberra: Preparing for the new Conservatory
Mario Russo: The man behind the sign
Ferns – a journey of wonder and discovery
Conserving Australia’s rarest Macadamia
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Volunteer Guides
Survive and Thrive
Friends Briefs:
- Friends of ANBG Student Scholarships
- Recent Scholarships
- The Don Beer Memorial Scholarship
- 2023 Annual General Meeting
- More than a garden
- Appointment of President and Patron of AAFBG
- New look for Friends
Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- Australian nature from the heart. The paintings of Sally Elmer and Peter Slater
- Dust makers. Edited by Penny Jaye and RA Stephens
A continental bird
Gardens Shorts:
- Executive Director’s Report
- Hidden no more: Digitising the cryptogam collections
- Plant collecting in high elevation cloud forests
- MEGAfauna: A walk through time!
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: August to December 2023

Fronds 103 April 2023

(PDF format 1.1 MB)

Tropical conservatory takes shape
Recent ANBG work to conserve Dampiera fusca
The only good snake is a live one
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Photographic Group
Gardens Shorts:
- Executive Director’s Report
- Record visitor numbers
- Snakes Alive! returns to the Gardens
- New School Holiday Program trialled
- Using the Gardens as a horticultural research site
Friends Briefs:
- Recognition of our wonderful volunteers
- Riding in style
Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- A Canberra Nature Journal by Dr Fiona Boxall
- More Australian Birding Tales – A highly personal account of birding, life and travel in the Land Down Under by R. Bruce Richardson
Summer Butterfly Walks
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: April to July 2023

2022

Fronds 102 December 2022

(PDF format 1.26 MB)

ANBG’s seed science research
A tale of two gardens and native bees
Christmas Island National Park – a unique ecosystem
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Group
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
- Photographic Group
Gardens Shorts:
- Vouchering the Gardens’ Living Collections
- Conservation and research in action
- Seeking new volunteers for the Plant Records Team
- ACT Environmental Educator of the year
- Special VIP visits to the Gardens
- Global Botanic Gardens Congress
- Conservatory volunteers begin behind the scenes
Friends Briefs:
- AGM Report
- Spring Bird Walk
- Are you receiving the Friends e-newsletter?
- Peter Heaume (1947–22)
- Book review: ‘The Road to Gondwana’ by Bill Morris
Botanical Bookshop book reviews:
- ‘Aussie native plants A–Z’ by Joey Farrell, illustrated by Jocelyn Gibson
- ‘Beachcombing – a guide to seashores of the Southern Hemisphere’ by Ceridwen Fraser
- ‘Curlews on Vulture Street – cities, birds, people and me’ by Darryl Jones
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: February to April 2023

Fronds 101 August 2022

(PDF format: 1.35 MB)

Otto Ruzicka’s enduring influence
Botanic Gardens at the heart of the Commonwealth Estate
The ANBG Nursery’s role in plant conservation
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Nature Journaling
- Volunteer Guides
Gardens Shorts:
- Report from Executive Director
- Minister Plibersek visits Gardens
- Calling in the weeding experts
- Banksia Garden featured on Gardening Australia
- Latest in mowing technology – the ‘robo-mower’
Friends Briefs:
- Tricia Morton 1951–2022
- 2022 Annual General Meeting returns to the Gardens
- Citizen Science Award winner
- Change to Friends Benefits
- Fronds Team interchange
- Gardens’ Friends get together
Far from home?
Botanical Bookshop book reviews
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: August to December 2022

Fronds 100 April 2022

(PDF format: 2.12 MB)

Friends Lawn now open
A new take on the scientific value of the ANBG Living Collection
Friendly Chatter:
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Nature Journaling
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Plant Science Group
Friends history
Recovery: photographic exhibition
Flowers visited by the Metallic Green Carpenter Bee in the Gardens, 2017–22
Banksia: the long history of an iconic genus
Gardens Shorts:
- Report from Executive Director
- National Seed Bank and Gardens nursery provide hope for Australia’s rarest eucalypt
- Harvest time in the Seed Orchard
- Looking through the microscope
- Securing our high country flora
- From artist’s impression to reality
- Booderee Botanic Gardens to provide safe haven for Eastern Quolls
Botanical Bookshop
Friends Briefs:
- ACT Volunteers of the Year
- Worth her weight in gold
- Generous donation to the Gardens
- Donald Beer, 1940-2022
- Jonette McDonnell
- Calling for your thoughts on the Friends constitution
- Volunteer Recognition ceremony
Botanic endeavour: The Florilegium Society celebrates the Banks and Solander Collections
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks: April to August 2022

2021

Fronds 99 December 2021

(PDF format: 1.67 MB)

Some Favourite Plants from Flowers, Fruit and Foliage
Quality control of National Seed Bank collections
From cultivated plant to environmental weed
Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Volunteer Guides
- Nature Journaling
- Growing Friends
Nature Journaling
Friends History
Thursday Talks 2021 – a Half Year in Review
Help record Gang-gang behaviour
Butterflies are Back!
Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director
- Behind closed gates
- Curating historic collections
- A guide to propagating Norfolk Island Plants
- Australasian Seed Science Conference goes virtual
- A click ahead for school excursion bookings
- New Director of Philanthropy – Parks Trust
Obituary: Estelle Margaret Canning
Botanical Bookshop
Friends AGM
Friends Briefs
- Life Memberships
- Obituary: Bev Fisher
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks

Fronds 98 August 2021

Northern Precinct Development – New National Seed Bank and Horticulture Centre
Friends Briefs
- Wake Up with the Birds
- New Friends group: Nature Journaling at the Gardens
- Schools Photographic Competition: explore the Gardens with your camera
Targeting threatened species in the ANBG nursery
Telling the Time by the Sun: An Enlightening Afternoon
Friendly Chatter
- Growing Friends Photographic Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Volunteer Guides
Recovery: 2021 Photographic Competition & Exhibition
President’s Report
The ANBG: a natural functioning ecosystem as exemplified by its insect fauna 12
Botanical Bookshop
Uncovering the secrets of the Superb Fairy-wren
Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director’s Report
- MEGAfauna exhibition
- Summer Sounds
- Weedy vols – horticulture volunteer trial
- We need your photos!
- National Seed Bank
- More than a word
Letters to the Editor
What’s on at the Gardens
Thursday Talks — August to December 2021

Fronds 97 April 2021

Homework – John Wrigley’s photos
William Baxter – ‘so excellent a collector’ of the ‘curious and rare’
Discovering Butterflies
Redevelopment of the East Core Precinct
Report from the Friends’ President
Banksia Garden – pruning banksias
Friendly Chatter
- Botanical Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Plant Science Group
Botanical Bookshop
Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Working to save Australia’s rarest Macadamia
- Crowea ‘Rockstar’
- Going virtual – adapting to a COVID world
- 2021 Volunteer Botanical Training Program goes virtual
- Conserving Syzygium paniculatum, Magenta Lilly Pilly
- Bushfire recovery boost to alpine seed collecting
- Secretive Slime Moulds – new book launched
- A bequest to protect Australian plants
- National Seed Bank building design plans and Seed the Future online auction
Friends Briefs
- The Friends 30th Birthday Party: Bubbles, Birthdays and Banksias
What’s on at the Gardens – April 2021 to August 2021
Thursday Talks – April to August 2021

2020

Fronds 96 December 2020

The Banksian Herbarium at the Natural History Museum London
50 Years Ago, from the Gardens’ Image Collection
Book review: Black Mountain – a Natural History of a Canberra Icon
Grasses in the Gardens
My place in the landscape
The underground story in the Banksia Garden
Book Review: Miracle on Black Mountain – A History of the ANBG
Friends Funded Projects, pullout double page with map
Friends ANBG, Life Members 2020
Friends Annual General Meeting
Competition: Win your own copy of Banks
Botanical Bookshop
Spotted pardalotes, ANBG
Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Banksia Garden Officially Opened
- The Job of a Lifetime
- Propagation Success for Dales Waterfall Fern
- 50 Years Celebrated with Stamps
- History in the Making
- Growing your own
Book review: Banks
Book review: Field Guide to the Orchids of the Southern Tablelands
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Thursday Talks
Friends Briefs
- From the President
- 2020 Volunteer Botanical Training Program
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 95 August 2020

Why Friends matter
George Caley and Daniel Moowattin: a partnership of naturalists
The birth of the Friends of the ANBG and its sequel
Botanical Bookshop: an update
Sydney Parkinson, botanical draughtsman to Banks
Tree ferns and forest disturbance
Ian Potter National Conservatory
Struggling to survive: depicting one of the world’s rarest eucalypts
Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Garden
Garden Shorts
- Report from the Executive Director
- Putting Systems in Place to Stay COVID-19 Safe
- Changes to the 50th Anniversary Program
Banksia Garden update
Friends Briefs
- Friends 30th Anniversary Vase
- Friends’ AGM – to have and to hold
- Online membership renewals
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
Steve Galliford (1952 -2020), ANBG Volunteer Guide
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 94 April 2020

The Banks Royal Commission
Banksias: Second Edition book launch
Botanical Bookshop
SEEDS: sponsorship, new staff, a conference and an exhibition
Hope for wild tropical mountaintop plants
Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens’ fire, New Year’s Eve
Botanical heritage on fire
Garden Shorts
- Recovering from the hail storm
- Report from Executive Director, Judy West
- Let the 50th Anniversary celebrations begin!
- Paradise Lost
- Sharing inspiration beyond the Gardens’ gates
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
Friends Briefs
- 2020 Volunteer Botanical Training Program
- Vale Denise Newman
- Vale Barbara Daly
What’s On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks

2019

Fronds 93 December 2019

Qualup Bells – Pimelea physodes – a showstopper
Now you see them, now you don’t: a threatened species walk
From ‘Banksia Centre Garden for the Disabled’ to ‘Banksia Garden’ for all
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
Life Membership – Anne Campbell
Schools Photo Exhibition
Collaborating for the future
Book Review
Snapshot of celebratory events 2020
Friends Annual General Meeting; major projects and related activities
Report to the ANBG Friends AGM, Dr Judy West
Plants from the past — plants for the future
Gardens Shorts
- Grow your own Australian National Botanic Gardens plants
- Australian Crop Wild Relatives
- A new form of seed dispersal with Australian Seed Bank stamps
- Australasian Seed Science Conference 2020
Friends Briefs
- A Range of New Projects for the Gardens
- Wake up with the Birds, 2019
- Telling the time by the Sun – an enlightening afternoon
- Summer Sounds 2020, Volunteers needed
Botanical Bookshop
What’s On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks

Fronds 92 August 2019

Behind the safety fence — the Banksia Garden
Linking woody weed removal in ANBG with collections management
Friends and the Seed Bank: X-raying Seed
History in the carpark
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Photographic Group
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Volunteer Guides
Native Orchid Conservation
The Solander Garden at the Swedish Embassy
Botanical Bookshop
Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- The Gardens turn 50 next year!
- Ex-situ conservation of the Christmas Island fern Pneumatopteris truncata
- Connection to Country through language
- Threatened Species Children’s Art
Competition
Friends Briefs
- Tony Wood: 22 January 1942 – 31 October 2018
- Schools Photographic Competition: explore the gardens with your camera
- Wake Up With the Birds 2019
What’s On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks

Fronds 91 April 2019

From the President
Seedy Happenings in Norfolk Island
Fire and Bushland
Donation to ANBG Library & Archives
Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
Cook and the Pacific: the Australian plants
‘Kwikpik’ – accessing the pictorial history of the Gardens
Botanical Bookshop
Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Goats in the Gardens
- Mountain Rescue — high altitude tropical plants
- Gardens contributes to Saving our Species
- Carramar Koala Quest
- Luminous Botanicus IV: Shade of Trees
Friends Briefs
- Find a Plant
- Summer Sounds
- Butterfly Walk with Suzi Bond
What’s On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks

2018

Fronds 90 December 2018

Threatened species in the ANBG nursery
Preparing a Banksia Garden in the ANBG
Donation of award winning artworks
What’s new in the ANBG Image Collections?
Friends Life Membership
Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Volunteer Guides
- Growing Friends
- Botanic Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
- Schools Photographic Exhibition
- Let’s talk about Thursday Talks
Paradise Lost — Daniel Solander’s Legacy
Friends AGM — Major Projects & Related Activities
Gardens Shorts
- Ranger’s Who Did That trail wins award
- Blooming Banksias in the Proteaceae section
- Pomaderris Garden – a living experiment
- Introducing Tiffeny Horwood
Botanical Bookshop
Yunnan — a province of plant riches
Friends Briefs
- Donors to the Public Fund of the Friends
- Wake Up with the Birds, 2018
- Summer Sounds 2019, Volunteers needed
What’s On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks

Fronds 89 August 2018

Saving for the future
Protecting the Eurodoballa Regional Botanic Gardens Wallace Herbarium
A closer look at ants on Black Mountain
Crop Wild Relatives seed conservation at Kakadu NP
Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
Guides and other Friends trip to Sydney
Tree changes at the ANBG
Discovering Biodiversity: A vision for taxonomy and biosystematics 2018-2027
Bushland Nature Walk — Regeneration
What’s new in the ANBG Image Collections?
Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director’s Report
- Introducing Sebastian Lang
- Conservation Research Garden gets official attention
- World Bee Day
- First strike for future display garden
- Take a ride on the wild side
- Botanic Gardens Day
Botanical Bookshop
Friends Briefs
- David Mellowship
- Friends Walks: New plantings in the Rainforest Gully
What’s On, including Thursday Talks

Fronds 88 April 2018

Digitising lichens and more
Seed imaging project — a hidden world exposed
Vibration pollen collection at flowers of native lasiandra, Melastoma affine & the Darwin hypothesis
Eucalyptus dye research at the ANBG
Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Guides
- Growing Friends
- Friends Botanic Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
An ANBG role in high altitude tropical plant conservation
What’s new in the ANBG Image Collections?
Gardens Shorts
- New librarian promotes botanical resources
- What’s happening in the Grassy Woodland Garden?
- Botanical interns 2018
Friends Briefs
- Gardens of the high country at Nimmitabel
- Summer Sounds Success
Botanical Bookshop
What’s On, including Thursday Talks

2017

Fronds 87 December 2017

The Myall Gall Midge
Friends help char the timber
Bush Blitz
Friends AGM: major projects & related activities
Life memberships
Friendly Chatter
- Growing Friends
- Photographic Group
- Schools Photographic Exhibition
- Friends Botanical Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
The ANBG Image Collection
Public Fund Donors
What’s new in the ANBG Image Collections?
Gardens Shorts
- New gardens for summer
- Welcoming visitors from China
- Working to save Australia’s threatened trees
- Help with Daisy family ID
Australasian Botanic Gardens Volunteer Guides Conference
Friends Briefs
- Native Bees in the Gardens: 2016/17 Season
- New Discounts for Friends
- Wake up with the Birds 2017
- Summer Sounds 2018 – Volunteers Needed
Letter to the editor: From the Gardens to the Gardens via Black Mountain
Botanical Bookshop
What’s On, including Thursday Talks

Fronds 86 August 2017

Public Art: the new Treehouse
Golden Wattle in the Capital on National Wattle Day
Partnerships, projects & collaboration on rare Pomaderris
The challenge of improving ex situ collections for threatened plants
Botanical Bookshop Reviews
ClimateWatch in the ANBG
Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Gardens Guides
- Australasian Botanic Gardens Volunteer Guides Conference
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
Documenting Nancy’s photos
The biggest bee in the Gardens
Gardens Shorts
- Executive Director Report
- Dazzling array of colours from eucalypts
- Rare plant rediscovery: following the footsteps of famous botanist
- Governor General plants the rarest Banksia in the world to launch BGANZ Open Day
- A Boost for Button Wrinklewort
Celebrate life in the Gardens
Friends Briefs
- Australian Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Letter to the Editor
- Book review – Discovering Australian flora: an Australian National Botanic Gardens experience
- Binoculars for the Birds!
What’s On, including Thursday Talks

Fronds 85 April 2017

Bush at the doorstep: the Bushland Nature Walk
Getting to know the ANBG’s two Fan Grevillea populations
What’s new in the ANBG Image Collections?
Plant translocations: opportunities & challenges for threatened plant recovery
Friendly Chatter
- Photographic Group
- Plant Science Group
- Gardens Guides
- Botanical Art Groups
Our friend the blue-banded bee
An invitation to all Friends, new & old!
Book review
Friends Briefs: Native bees in the Gardens
Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- New bog and fen display
- Cafe under new management
- Focus on Pomaderris
- Summer seeds
- Walking with Betty
Obituary: Pauline Wicksteed
Botanical bookshop
What’s On at the Gardens, including Thursday Talks

2016

Fronds 84 December 2016

The Ian Potter National Conservatory
Friends AGM: Achievements & Future Challenges
Friendly Chatter
- Botanic Art Groups
- Garden Guides
- Growing Friends
- Plant Science Group
- Photographic Group
Australian Glasshouses, old and new
Flecker Botanic Garden, Cairns
From the Red Heart: a natural and artistic collaboration
From the Bookshop
Friends Briefs
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Donations to the Friends Public Fund
- Native Bees in the Gardens?
- Thursday Talks Program
Garden Shorts
- A New National Icon For The Gardens
- Renovation And Conservation
- CBRfree WiFi
- Bushland Nature Walk
- Sunset Cinema
Friends Life Membership
What’s On, including Thursday Talks

Fronds 83 August 2016

What’s in a Gall? (Roger Farrow)
Friendly Chatter
- Plant Science Group
- Botanic Art Groups
- Growing Friends
- Garden Guides
- Photographic Group
Glasshouse Makeover (Margaret Clarke)
Botanical Bookshop
Bush Blitz: helping to discover & protect rare Australian plants {Alexandra de Blas)
Friends’ Briefs
From the President
Geelong conference
Breakfast with the Birds
Gang-gang survey in ANBG
Kangaroo Kollars
Gardens Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- New Developments
- Scientific Trial To Save Endangered Plant
- Christmas Island Collecting
What’s On
Lunchtime Talks

Fronds 82 April 2016

Luminous Botanicus II
National Seed Science Forum
A new Tropical Conservatory
Gang-gangs nesting in the Gardens!
Revisiting woody weeds in ANBG
Growing Friends
Photography Group
Garden Guides
Botanic Art Groups
Kerguelen Cabbage
The Florilegium
Conserving biodiversity: Threatened species project
From the Bookshop
Garden Shorts
- Executive Director’s Report
- Bush Blitz collections yield success
- Native bee hotel open for guests
- Meet Sue Fyfe
- Bushland Precinct walking trail
Friends Briefs
- Walking to the Arboretum
- From the President
- Friends planning
- Aboriginal trail opening
- New faces
- Summer Sounds 2016
- Successful talks
- Plant Science Group
What’s on in the Gardens

2015

Fronds 81 December 2015

Another planet
A birthday party to remember
Many positives to report at AGM
Eucalyptus recurva
Visiting European Botanic Gardens
From the Bookshop
Friends’ Schools Photo Competition
Book review
Public Fund
Where do all the leaves go?
Garden shorts
- Stories from the pas
- Summer Sounds
- We are on Instagram
- Conservation of rare daisy
- Alpine Garden for Roger Good
Friends briefs
- Aboriginal Trail
- Botanic Art Groups
- Plant Science Group
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Photographic Group
- Concert volunteers
- Eureka prize entry
- Growing Friends
- Guides
- Book sale
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 80 August 2015

Banksias in blankets
Macadamia integrifolia in the ANBG
Delicate by nature
The seedy side of life in the Gardens
New nursery benches for Growing Friends
Visiting Australia’s botanic gardens
From the Bookshop
Nature Notes
Guides in the Gardens
Breakfast with the Birds
Planning for the next 20 years
Celebrating our first 25 years
Botanic art at NLA
Botanic art groups
Photographic Group
Garden shorts
- Executive Director’s report
- Dinosaurs in the Gardens
- Education Rangers’ inspiration
- Aboriginal trail
- Revamped Seed Bank
Friends briefs
- From the President
- Friends’ AGM Thursday 8 October
- Plant Science Group
- Forest Music
What’s On in the Gardens

Fronds 79 April 2015

Friends turn 25
A trip to Luminous Botanicus
The quest for the elusive Purple Acacia
Bogs and fens in the high country
Trees tell a story of climate change
Summer Sounds by The Central
Photography Group
Botanic art
Growing Friends
The visitors we guide
Going bush for the rainforest
Garden shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Plants in pipes
- Seed research
- Seed collecting
- Botanical interns
Friends briefs
- Volunteering Opportunity
- History at anniversary dinner
- Book donation
- Artful works in the Gardens
Artful works in the Gardens
From the Bookshop
Jindii Eco Spa
What’s on at the Gardens

2014

Fronds 78 December 2014

New Council and President
Daisies galore
Wise words and Masterplans—Friends AGM reports
What? Woody weeds in the ANBG?
Karijini National Park
Art in the Gardens with Friends advertisement
Safeguarding Australia’s flora: a collabarative effort
From the Library, the Bookshop, and your editors
Growing Friends
Guides
Public Fund
Photography group
Garden Shorts
- Master Plan
- Luminous Botanicus
- Red Centre one year on
- Spot the difference 1
- Spot the difference 2
- Japanese wood artist
Friends Briefs
- Concerts have a sponsor!
- Wanted! Concert volunteers!
- Changes to Friends’ parking permits
- Schools photo comp
- Plant Science Group
- Friends’ Silver Anniversary
- Breakfast with the Birds
- STEPping out
- AAFBG Conference
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 77 August 2014

Our new Patron
Postcards from Kakadu
Twenty years growing
The Cootamundra conundrum
Floresco chef a winner
Bird bonanza
New Holland Honeyeater and other Garden birds
Sighting ANBG Gang-gangs
Meeting birds with Kurt Thaler
Breakfast with the birds
Barbara Daly retires
Plant Conservation and Management in the Australian Alps
From the Bookshop
Artists-in-Residence
Growing Friends
Photographic Group
In the Night Garden with the Guides
Art Exhibition report
Plant Science Group
Friends Briefs
- Growing the Art Collection!
- Glasshouse signage
- Parking Permits
- Flora Explorer
- Banks’ Florilegium
- More reasons to visit the Library
- Asteraceae Garden
- Visitor Centre Volunteers
- Woody weeding
John Wrigley obituary
Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Sharing is human nature
- Rangers enjoy their new Electric Vehicle
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 76 April 2014

Enlighten!
Summer Sounds Concerts
My patch
Growing Friends
Encountering Welwitschia
Gondwana on our doorstep
Postcards fom Christmas Island
Guides go a’roving
Digging for daisies
Art in the Gardens with Friends
Friends Briefs
- An update from the President
- A Floral Evening
- New Friends funding for the Gardens
- Alpine Seed Ecology Project
- Book donation
- Get well soon
Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Sizzling summer
- Stocktaking
- Leading Ecotourism
- Congratulations Ros!
- More perils of seed collecting
- Interns
- AGM addendum
From the Bookshop
… through the Lens
Plant Science Group
What’s on at the Gardens

2013

Fronds 75 December 2013

Schools’ photographic competition
Acacia colei: Cole’s wattle
More challenges ahead: July 2012 to June 2013
Forest 20 becomes STEP
The blue amongst the green
Birds of the red centre: they’re out there!
The Red Centre Garden Grand Opening
Growing Friends
Photographic Group
Botanic Art Groups
Keeping up with the guides
From the Bookshop
Friends briefs
- Breakfast with the birds
- Bush Capital Celebrations
- AFBG conference
- Quiet Achiever award
- Wollemi Pine
- Twilight Dinner
- Walcott garden
- Alison McKenzie lecture
- Recovering Brindabellas
Garden shorts
- A really rare plant
- The year in figures
- Island invaders
- A new face
- Public Art Plan
What’s on
Twilight Dinner booking form

Fronds 74 August 2013

Posting the Gardens
Keeping up with the Guides
Termites: Australia’s ecological engineers
From the Bookshop
A sandstone success
Notice of Friends’ Annual General Meeting
A silver-gilt medal in London!
Propagating from seed
A planting experiment starts
The Red Centre Garden
Garden Shorts
- Executive Director’s Report
- Rare Hakea released
- The need for seed
- Award winning librarian
- The Gardens on ABC
Friends’ tour – Brindabella recovery: a decade after the 2003 bushfires
Friends Briefs
- Changes at the Visitor Centre
- New volunteer opportunity
- Eucalypt Discovery Walk
- ANBG Stocktake 17
- Murray Fagg’s books
- Broadcast emails
- Plant Science Group
- Membership fees
Wonderful weeders!
Bush Capital Celebration and Gum Tree Hop
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 73 April 2013

Eucalypt Trail map and signs
Discover eucalypts
Giant wood moths in the Gardens
Growing Friends
Botanic Art Exhibition
Guides’ activities
Hooray for Theophrastus
Basketry with plant materials
Making a Meeting Place
Friends briefs
- Centenary Dinner
- Centenary Chats
- Alpine research update
- Plant Science group
- Family Picnic Day
- Volunteer Guides Recruitment
- Buying a picture
- Work at ANPC?
Garden shorts
- From the Exec. Director
- Long Paddock garden
- New faces
- Botanical interns
- Snakes Alive etc
- Seed Bank in 2012-13
From the Bookshop
Photographic Group
What’s on at the Gardens

2012

Fronds 72 December 2012

Leaves in the ANBG
My patch
Allo: the other Casuarina
Growing Friends
The White Waratah
Come to South Africa
Keeping up with the Guides
Flavours of Aussie flora
Collecting ladies
Care for your Correa ‘Canberra Bells’
Art Groups celebrate
From the Bookshop
Another successful year
Livistona mariae in the Red Centre Garden
Garden shorts
- Nominate the Gardens
- Gardens gets social
- Visions of Eucalypts
- Caring for Country
- afterDARK Dreamtime
Friends briefs
- Eucalypt Discovery Walk
- Centenary Chats
- Visit to Parliament House
- Breakfast with birds
- Pt Augusta conference
- Experiencing the Warrabirra Wanderer
- Wattle Day launch
- Schools Photographic Exhibition
- Wollemi Pine donation
- We need some help at the Summer Concerts
- ANPC Conference
Whats on

Fronds 71 August 2012

Launch of Flora Explorer
Reflections on Murray’s 42 years at ANBG
Pruning—the kindest cut
Ecological science meets urban amenity
Small, brown birds with coloured bands
Collaboration for conservation, for 21 years
From the Bookshop
Volunteer guides on Flora Explorer
The Red Centre Garden—starting from scratch
Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Endangered pea goes home
- Monitoring climate change
- Flora Explorer thanks
- Boom and bust In the Red Centre
- AfterDARK a great success
- Gardens staff return from Christmas Island
Friends Briefs
- Friends and the Plan
- Recruiting Seed Bank Volunteers
- Friends-only tours:
- Visit to Parliament House Gardens
- Behind the Scenes tour of ANBG Nursery
- Botanic Art Exhibition
- Honoured
- Grazing
- Barbara Daly’s drama
Right Royal trivia night
Growing Friends
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 70 April 2012

The Year of the Water Dragon
Myriads of moths
Summer seeds
Shaping the Red Centre
Happy retirement Sarah
Soils ain’t soils
Learning from Nature
Growing Friends and plant sale
Walking in the rain
Friends in Style
Eucalypts in the ANBG
Botanical art exhibition
Volunteer Guides
From the Bookshop
Photographic Group
Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Rainforest in a new light
- New Cafe Operator!
- Collecting trips
- Gardens visitor survey
- Tribute to commitment
- Where bryophytes grow
- Brand new look
- People mover
- Botanical Interns
Friends Briefs
- Friends comments on the draft Management Plan
- A picnic celebration
- Twilight Dinner
- Social events
- Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Janet Twigg-Patterson
What’s on at the Gardens

2011

Fronds 69 December 2011

Launch of bird brochure
Breakfasting with birds
A packed nine months. AGM reports
Botanical Art Groups
Red Centre Garden
New works set in stone in the Sydney Basin
Saving Eucalyptus imlayensis
From the Bookshop
The year of bush tucker
The tastes of Australia garden
Bush tucker from Growing Friends
Schools Photo Competition
Garden Shorts
- Draft Management Plan
- Splendour in the Grassy Woodland
- Plants thrive in pipes
- Staying valuable and viable
- Staff among Gardens’ treasures
- Floriade gold award
Friends Briefs
- Warwick the Wonderful
- Seedy Vols
- Life member
- Have you renewed your membership?
- Gift membership
- Public fund donations
- Bird brochure
- Remembering Alison
- Murder in the Gardens
- Guides Conference
- Schools’ photo competition
- Books and book stand in memory
What’s on at the Gardens
Twilight dinner

Fronds 68 August 2011

Our new Patron
Seed partnerships
Alpine seed research progress
Alpine volunteer opportunities
A volunteer seed collector
Alpine research garden
Botanical Photographic Group
Growing Friends growing grasses
Botanic artists at Bywong
Volunteer guides
A tale of eucalypts, revolution and murder
Lollies and nuts in the rainforest
Westbourne Woods adventure
Friends briefs
- New Environmental Monitoring Stations
- At the Arboretum
- Ikebana
- In Memory of Nancy Dunn
- Art Blooms
- AGM on 3 November
- Autumn Plant Sale
- NGA and NLA
- Help needed at Open Garden
- ANBG at Floriade
Garden shorts
- From Exec Director
- Helping save a nationally endangered plant: Zieria obcordata
- Clearing the way for the Red Centre Garden
- Summer Sounds January 2012
- Holiday Bilby Trail
Feeling seedy?
From the Bookshop
Canberra Instiute of Botanic Art
What’s on at the Gardens

Fronds 67 April 2011

New President and Council
Bombarded by butterflies
Growing Friends plant sale
We live in interesting times!
Correa backhouseana
Calling all photographers
Making an entrance—the Grassy Woodland Garden
From the Bookshop
Friends Briefs
- Summer delight
- Botanical Interns Program
- Alpine seed update
- Rhythm Interrupted — Life Redirected
- Are we ‘spinning’?
- Celebrating volunteers
- Twilight dinner
- The clock
- Acacia Pollination Project
Garden Shorts
- Myrtle Rust
- Lichen website
- Flix in the Stix
- Aquatic collecting
- Saving a species
- Alpine rock garden
Gardening Australia offer
What’s on at the Botanic Gardens

2010

Fronds 66 December 2010

No sex please!
Celebrating Forty Years
Planting and Partying
Gala Garden Party
What’s in a Name winner
Volunteer Positions Vacant
Wattle Watching
Orchids on Show
Australia’s Savannas
Garden Shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Planting out for spring
- Growing excellence in research and conservation
Friends Briefs
- How many gumnuts?
- ‘In Flower This Week’ Walk
- 14th photo comp
- Strategic Plan
- Visit to Parliament House
- Elizabeth Bilney
Growing Friends
A Touching Experience
From the Bookshop
Photo Competion: Some Prize Winners
What’s On

Fronds 65 August 2010

How well do you know our gifts?
Friends supporting the Gardens
Beware imitation! In search of a ‘true’ national botanic garden
Broken hearts and tea
About the bookshop
The Alpine Research Project…so far
…and a volunteer’s experience
A pictorial history
A special seat
Garden shorts
- From the Executive Director
- Water, water, everywhere!
- Picturing biodiversity in the Gardens
- Set in sandstone
- 40th Anniversary
- Floriade
- Growing old gracefully
- New signage
- Tree of trees
Growing Friends
Friends briefs
- Book launch
- Acacia project
- Footprint Envirofest
- Visit Parliament House gardens
- Blooming art
- What will we do in the coming years?
- Alpine volunteers needed
- First Friends
- Visit of Ennio Marchetto
- Schools Photo Retrospective, 1997 – 2009
What’s on in the Gardens?

Fronds 64 April 2010

Friends 21st AGM
Science challenges for the ANBG
The RTBG: a guide’s view
Volunteering at the Australian National Herbarium
Philanthropy & you in the International Year of Biodiversity
Public forum hosted by Senator Lundy
From the Bookshop
Friends Briefs
- Guides Intake 2010
- Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Growing Friends Autumn sale Saturday 10 April
- Friends Projects
- Book Donation to Friends Lounge
- Southern India — people and plants
Garden Shorts
- From Executive Director
- Murray Fagg—40 years at the Gardens
- Music and Dance
- New grass trees
- Non potable water project
- Old Nursery Site
- The Sound of Summer
- Snakes Alive
What’s on in the Gardens
What’s in a Name? competition

2009

Newsletter 63 December 2009

Name our newsletter competition
New directions for ANBG
Pointing the way
‘What’s in a name?’ joint winner – Backhousia citriodora
From the Bookshop
Botanical art
Growing Friends
‘What’s in a name?’ joint winner – Wilga (Geijera parviflora): Family Rutaceae
What’s On
Birds in season
Garden shorts
- Message from Judy West
- Photos of weeds
- Update on Management Plan
- Recycled water
- 40th anniversary calendar
Friends briefs
- Summer concerts
- Senator Lundy’s Forum
- Parliament House Gardens
- Wattle Day and Exhibition
- Open Gardens
Schools Photo Competition

Newsletter 62 August 2009

Light on the horizon
Alpine research and other Friends projects
Wattle, a natural choice for symbol
A gift of wattle
An evolutionary tree of trees
Celebrate our Wattle: an exhibition
What’s On
From the bookshop
Botanic art groups’ exhibition
Charles Darwin, observant gardener
New signs coming
Friends recommendations on ANBG management plan
Garden shorts
- From the Director
- Non-potable water for irrigation
- Education all over
- 40th birthday calendar
- Consulting the nation
Friends briefs
- Celebrations ahead
- Visit Parliament House gardens
- Bernard Fennessy honoured
- Growing Friends
- Open gardens
- Breakfast with the Birds
- Inaugural Catherine Blakers Award
- Wattle hosts wanted

Newsletter 61 March 2009

Photo competition 2008
Meeting the challeges: AGM report
Bernard Fennessy ‘What’s in a name?’ Competition
What’s on at the Gardens
Letters to the editors
Collecting at Cravens Peak
Landscapes in the Gardens
From the Bookshop
Growing Friends
Garden Shorts
- From the Director
- The Garden’s new management plan (2009-19)
Friends Briefs
- Summer Concerts
- Damp and cool dinners
- Arboretum visit
- BGANZ DVDs
- Jardín Botánico Nacional de Cuba

2008

Newsletter 60 November 2008

Friends at Government House
‘What’s in a Name?’ Swainsona formosa
Growing Friends
Garden Shorts
- We are not alone!
- A Plant by No Other Name
- Banksia heliantha
Lift-out: What‛s out and What‛s on
Friends Briefs
- Bryophyte website launch
- Spring Flower Trial
- Friends at BGANZ
Rabbits as Landscape Gardeners
Favoured Fauna in the Gardens
Banking Seeds
From the Bookshop
More Friends Briefs
A New Batch of Guides
New Emails and Website
Changes at Hudsons
Wattle Walks
More on Bowerbirds
Brekkie with Birds

Newsletter 59 July 2008

Money and the Gardens’ future
What plant is that?
‘What’s in a Name?’ Competition 2008—The Winner
From the Bookshop
The Gardens’ Library
Botanic Art Exhibition
Growing Friends
Watching Bower Birds, and more
ANBG Alpine Collecting 2008
Garden Shorts
- From the Director
- Spring fantasy
- Wattle week
Friends Briefs
- Flowers and fog
- Arboretum Friends
- Our Nation’s Garden
- Orange Friends Conference

Newsletter 58 March 2008

Time to start writing!
A challenging year
Eucalyptus flindersii
From the Bookshop
Acacia maidenii
Growing Friends
‘Our Nation’s Garden’ photo competition
Gardens shorts
From the Director
New Watering Technology
Good news story
Australian Biological Resources Study
Did you know?
Helen Joan Hewson
Friends briefs
- Grazing in the Gardens
- Concert season 2008
- Guides’ gigs
- Botanical Resource Centre
- Guides intake 2008
- Volunteer morning tea
- Botanical Art Exhibition
- Catherine Blakers

2007

Newsletter 57 November 2007

Welome to Her Excellency Mrs Marlena Jeffery, our new Patron
‘Boobook…Mopoke…Morepork’
Some lesser known ACT orchids
Araucaria cunninghamii Hoop Pine
New ANBG Botanical Resource Centre
Living collection review
Diseases in the garden and Gardens
Growing Friends
From the Bookshop
Friends Briefs
- Death of a dinosaur
- Summer concerts
- Welcome Stephen

Newsletter 55 March 2007

Welcome to the new Director
The Bernard Fennessy ‘What’s in a Name?’ Award
Annual General Meeting—President’s (abridged) Report
A Framework for a Shared Vision
Watering by Computer
Gardens’ Field Trips in the Alps
From the Bookshop
Friends Briefs
- New Friends’ Council
- New Membership Secretary
- Friends Public Fund
- Membership Subscriptions
- Congratulations, Alison!
Tom Green 23 October 1944 – 15 January 2007
The Cockatoo
What was in Flower, March to July 2006

2006

Newsletter 54 November 2006

Our Friend Bernard—a Thoroughly Decent Docent
Studying Snakes in the Gardens
The Alice Springs Desert Park
Blooming Threads
Original Wildflowers
The Varied Sitella
From the Bookshop
News from the Acting Director
Celebrating the New ‘Friends Cascades’
Friends Briefs
- Summer Concerts
- Annual General Meeting
- Tasmanian Tour
- Sydney Friends Tours
- Tour Tibetan Yunnan

Newsletter 53 July 2006

What’s in a name?
Friends’ Briefs
- Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens
- Annual Photographic Competition
- Sex and Death Exhibition
- Botanical Art Exhibition
- Special Shared Tours
- Interesting Articles
Plant Identification
The Brown Thornbill
From the Bookshop
Further Notes on Hakea pulvinifera
Matthew Flinders and his Scientific Gentlemen
Terrestrial Orchids