Friends of Geelong Botanic Gardens
Special Activities for Friends
| Date | Time | Event/Description | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sunday 21st March | 11am to 4pm | ‘High Tea In Autumn’ – Enjoy the colour and beauty of Autumn in the Gardens with a special High Tea. Sip a special blend of tea with cucumber sandwiches, cup cakes and other dainties that will delight your fancy. |
At the Friends Teahouse — Bookings Advised |
| Monday 22nd March | 6pm | ‘Australia's Remarkable Trees’ – talk by author Richard Allen This magnificent book illustrated with over 500 superb photographs, explores the extraordinary lives of Australia's oldest, largest and most unusual trees. The book prompts us to look into the future. It is a call to arms to preserve and protect the oldest and most magnificent living things and the forests and wilderness they survive in. Autographed copies of the book will be available for sale |
GBG Meeting Room (light refreshments prior to meeting) – Gold coin donation |
| Monday 29th March | All Day – 8.45am start, Coach departs GBG Oval Carpark | Autumn Garden Excursion to ‘Historic Daylesford’ Explore the collection of outstanding trees at Wombat Hill Botanic Gardens, Wombat Park historic gardens, Lavandula and other gardens to be confirmed. |
Daylesford, Cost: $45 FGBG / $55 Guests |
| May 21st to May 23rd | 3 Day confernece | Association Conference – hosted by Friends of the Australian Inland Botanical Gardens, Mildura. ‘Secrets of the Mallee’ Program includes short presentations of interesting and innovative developments in various gardens, more information and registration information can be found at the website www.friendsbotanicgardens.org | Mildura |
February Music in the Gardens Membership Offer
Take advantage of our special February Summer Concert Series offer – purchase a FGBG membership at any of the February concerts and you will receive membership till June 2011.
This offer is only available to people attending the February Summer Concert Season 2010.
The Daniel Bunce Gardening Book
The first curator of the Geelong Botanic Gardens and as featured as a bollard near the 19th Century Garden Gate, Daniel Bunce was a botanist, a businessman, an adventurer and an author. To acknowledge and celebrate his contribution to the Geelong Botanic Gardens, the friends are please to make available new editions of his “Manual of Practical Gardening”. Learn more about the Daniel Bunce Gardening Book.
Contact Us
Friends Office
- Fax / Phone
- (03) 5222 6053
- friendsgbg@sunet.com.au
- Office Hours
- Monday, Wednesday & Friday 9am to 3pm
- Postal Office
- PO Box 235, Geelong, 3220
Friends are Proudly Sponsored by …
Music in the Gardens is proudly sponsored each year by Wheeler Investment Advisors of Geelong.
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