Friends of the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens | Botanical garden
Friends of the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens
Phone: 0449561674
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24.01.2022 All the Guided Walks for October have been created! Go to our Events Page to find out and to register for any of these eight walks. Our guiding volunteers are keen to share their knowledge with visitors to the Gardens. A gold coin donation is always appreciated with all funds going back to the Friends who activate the Gardens providing many different visitor services, experiences and gardening activities.
24.01.2022 This Guided Walk has opened up new spaces now that COVID 19 restrictions have been lifted for outdoor activities.Bookings:https://www.trybooking.com/BLABA A gold coin donation is appreciated.
21.01.2022 What do you call a baby grebe ... a 'grebling' or a greblet?!? Or perhaps a chick! Photos of the adults on the nest have been posted previously but yesterday mum and dad had a chick each on their backs taking them for their first 'swim'! Other pairs of grebes have been spotted nesting in the lagoons. Thanks Judy for these wonderful images of the latest additions to the Gardens!
17.01.2022 This Friday, 27 November Flowers by Friends will have their very creative arrangements and bunches of Australian native flowers on sale at the Friends Centre from 10:00am. These were so popular at their last sale day ... Get in early to choose your arrangement as a gift or a lasting arrangement to have in your home! reasonably priced with all proceeds going back to the Friends of the Gardens. Please share with your friends and family.
17.01.2022 This walk, 'The Green within the Gold' is on tomorrow morning at 10:00am .... it is the last guided walk of the Gardens for this year! Find out more about this fascinating, urban, green oasis in the middle of our city! Bookings below or turn up at the Friends Centre just before 10:00am.
15.01.2022 2021 Friends Calendar is proving very popular ... featuring the wildlife in the Gardens where an urban habitat has been created. There are lots of gift ideas for Christmas, all with a botanical theme from books, bush foods, herbal teas, pottery, cards, plants and plenty more! Eftpos facilities available. Remember the Friends Centre is open 7 days a week from 10 - 2pm.
14.01.2022 Agree this was a very, very special garden. Its's a plantspersons garden- knowing how to create and manage the right environment for plants from all parts of the globe - The Cherry tree is Prunus okame, according to Ev the best for our climate and who wouldn't agree when you see the result? Hibiscus acetosella - Africa; Leucospermum - Africa; Medinilla species - tropical regions; Incredible 'plantspeopleship'. The cream of the crop - Wollemia nobilis perfectly positioned. So much here - a private botanic garden!! So generous to invite thousands in to enjoy not just the plants, but the overall perfect environment for slowing down and absorbing....... nature.
13.01.2022 Looks like a bumper season for the Sandpaper Fig, Ficus coronata this season. Walk through the Bush Foods Garden to see this tree along with other bush foods planted in 2010 by local school students. The fruit which appears on the trunk and branches was a food source for indigenous Australians while the rough 'sand paper' like leaves were used to smooth surfaces of weapons and tools. Other specimens of this tree are also found in the Mangroves to Moutains Transect of the Gardens.
12.01.2022 This wonderful garden is open all weekend from 9 - 4.30. It's a must see for any garden lover. Reminder!
10.01.2022 The cygnets are growing, feathers are changing colour, and mother swan is nesting again.
10.01.2022 Book into this free preschoolers activity for 3 - 5 year olds for this Thursday at the Botanic Gardens! The theme is Let's Pot a Plant ... find out how seeds germinate and take home your own pot to nurture!
08.01.2022 Only a few more spaces left for this school holiday activity this Tuesday! Find out so much more about the amazing bird life at the Gardens from our expert guides. Book online below.
08.01.2022 Another great school holiday activity at the Botanic Gardens. Bookings are essential ... following the links!
07.01.2022 A small exert of the performance 'Sounds of Spring' yesterday afternoon in the Botanic Gardens as part of the Bleach festival 2020 .... enjoy!!! Thanks Nikki for the video! Southern Cross Soloists Bleach Festival
07.01.2022 A few places left for the Native Bee Walk on this Friday. Join our Native Bee expert to find out more about these amazing pollinators! Observe our native hives and learn how to manage a hive in your own garden. Meet just outside the Friends Centre at 9:00am. Follow the link below to the booking site.
07.01.2022 This is the last Guided Butterfly Walk for the year on next Tuesday at 10:00am. Join our butterfly expert, Josephine as she gives you an insight to the different butterflies found at the Gardens, their life cycle and host plants. A Butterfly Field Guide will assist you along the walk. Bookings below ... please share with your family and friends.
04.01.2022 Glorious day at the Botanic Gardens today to launch the 2020 - 2021 Naturally GC Program. Cr Donna Gates, Deputy Mayor, along with our young Naturally GC Ambassadors launched the program which gives the residents of the Gold Coast the opportunity to connect with the natural environment through varied activities and workshops catering for all ages. Check out the link below for the incredible array of activities available. https://www.goldcoast.qld.gov.au//naturallygc-program-2457
03.01.2022 Great to see so many butterfly spotters with their butterfly eyes fluttering by!
02.01.2022 This Friday 6 November is the Friends Nursery Plant Sale from 8:00am - 11:00am. Follow the signs from the Ring Road and the Friends Centre to the top of the hill. Wonderful selection of regional native plants for your garden or to give away as gifts for Christmas. Not only are you supporting Friends but you are supporting the environment by increasing biodiversity of plants and animals in our region! EFTPOS available.
02.01.2022 The Botanic Gardens ... a wonderful place to do a Pollinator Count! Check out the event below to see how you can be involved!
02.01.2022 Thank you to Ev and Bob for opening up your garden to the hundreds, perhaps thousands ?, of people who were treated to a feast of visual delights! Thank you also for your incredible generosity in donating all the gate takings to local charities and for giving Friends the opportunity to sell plants over the weekend. We don't know how you find time to also volunteer at Friends Nursery!!!
02.01.2022 This coming FRIDAY 2 October is going to be a very BUSY day at the Gardens. * Friends Monthly Nursery Plant Sale is on from 8:00am - 11:00am at the Nurseey at the top of the hill. Follow signs. * Guided Native Bee Walk, already booked out at 9:00am. * Flowers by Friends will have their beautiful native floral arrangements and bouquets for sale at the Friends Centre from 10:00am * Nature Arts and Crafts Workshops in the Education Pavilion as part of the school holiday program.... All these activities brought to you by the Friends of the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens Inc.! See more
02.01.2022 So fortunate to have a Springbrook supplier of these beautiful Waratahs - stunningly featured in arrangements and bouquets! Our very creative Flowers by Friends group are selling native floral arrangements at the Friends Centre from 10:00 - 2pm till sold out this weekend. Be quick... these will not last long!!! All funds raised by Friends go back to the Botanic Gardens.
01.01.2022 Friends Gardening Group were busy on Wednesday helping out in the heritage-listed Rosser Garden by replanting around one of the ornamental ponds on the property. Well done to this hard working Friends group! Thanks Leanne for capturing these images!
01.01.2022 NAIDOC 2020 celebrates the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and invites all Australians to embrace the true history of this country a history which dates back thousands of generations. ' , ' 65,000+ - . ' , , , ... , , , , . ' , . * www.naidoc.org.au In celebration of NAIDOC Week, we invite you for a special Guided Walk on Wednesday at 10am through our bountiful Bush Foods Garden. You’ll discover plants that have contributed to the survival of indigenous Australians for thousands of years, providing food, shelter, tools and medicine. Along the way we’ll discover Yugambeh Country and the landscape of ‘Story of our Country’ representing the plants and elements of the regions that make up Yugambeh Country. Meet us at the Friends Centre.
