The Growing Friends have been steadily working on increasing our range of plants and the nursery will now be open again to members who wish to purchase plants on our working-bee days. We will be open on Thursdays from March…
The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria is introducing an important new program for all volunteers, staff, on-site Friends groups and contractors at the Gardens: the new RBGV Child Safe Program. This program is designed to raise awareness of the importance…
Basketry Special interest group Our basket makers weave or sew pliable plant material into baskets, mesh bags or other creative, interesting artefacts. Fibrous matter is bent and coiled or plaited and twined together by strong hands and imaginative design. Not to…
The view from the centre of town of the hills to the north was one of almost total devastation. The tree cover had been completely burnt. At the base of the hills the pasture was already green again and supporting…
Our Special Interest groups have been in hiatus during the COVID 19 lockdown, but many individuals have been busy with their artistic pursuits. The Friends in Focus convenor Judith Cooke returned to the Australian Garden within a few days of…
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,…