The first Growing Friends Plant Sale for 2020 will be held at the Australian Garden on Saturday and Sunday 14 and 15 March 2020. The Growing Friends team are growing many Banksias, to honour the fact that 2020 is the 250th anniversary…
Join artist Erica Wagner on a gentle walk in the gardens, stopping in different locations to draw and paint whatever takes your fancy. Erica is a painter, publisher and creative consultant to storytellers, who has won Victorian Artists Society prizes,…
Meet Gabrielle Baldwin, the author of this insightful book, for a morning talk on Sunday 9 February 2020, at the Auditorium at the Australian Gardens. Gabrielle says "Things My Garden Taught Me is partly a memoir – a record of…
Under the Gardens' Raising Rarity Project, rare plant specimens were sold at the Cranbourne Friends Plant Sale in October 2019. Raising Rarity uses a new approach to save rare and threatened flora by assessing the horticultural potential of rare species, to establish…
Thank you to all the Friends members who completed the 2019 Cranbourne Friends Membership Survey in April. It was lovely to hear from many members their appreciation for the friendly and social nature of Friends events and activities. Overall, feedback…
The Cranbourne Friends exist to support the Cranbourne Gardens, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, by undertaking voluntary tasks and organising activities which enhance community understanding and appreciation of the Cranbourne Gardens, Australian flora and fauna, and generate funds to support Gardens’…
The leading role that the Royal Botanic Gardens of Victoria, Cranbourne will play in conservation and preservation of rare native plants, is highlighted in a video filmed at Cranbourne, for Botanic Gardens Day in May. In Conservation, John Arnott, Manager of…