It will be great news to all that the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria reopened to visitors on Wednesday 13 May. At Cranbourne Gardens, visitors are able enjoy many public areas within the Gardens and to access toilet facilities, but retail,…
Your Covid-free correspondent has been out and about - virtually, of course - gathering news of the Growing Friends, who like so many of the Friends brigade of volunteers are in enforced recess. Lockdown has merely shifted the Growing Friends creativity,…
The Growing Friends Plant Sale last weekend (14th and 15th March) was a great success, with over $24,000 raised. To celebrate the 250th anniversary of the year when naturalists Joseph Banks and Daniel Solander first set foot on the land of the…
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…