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Friends' Library

The Friends of the Geelong Botanic Gardens library

The Friends co-ordinate the GBG Reference Library, an excellent source of Botanical and Horticultural information, with library stock being continually improved.

A Librarian is in attendance on Wednesday mornings when members may borrow items from the Friends' small Lending Library.

Members also assist the Librarian with cataloguing book covering and the arching of materials.

If you would like to help with the library, while enjoying the company of others, please contact the Friends Office for more information.

Golden Laurel Award

Congratulations to GBG historian and author George Jones on being awarded the Golden Laurel Award.

The Golden Laurel is Australia's most prestigious media award from the Australian Horticultural Media Association and has been presented to George Jones for his life long contribution to horticulture. The Friends hosted a champagne toast and luscious teahouse lunch entertaining NSW radio personality and Yates Gardening Guide Editor Judy Horton, together with Gardening Australia's Colin Campbell. Judy and Colin paid a special visit to Geelong to share their award with George.

It is wonderful to see national regonition of George's work and know that he shares this honour with some of Australia's best known and loved horticultural media identities.

The Daniel Bunce Gardening Book
The first curator Daniel Bunce as represented as a wooden bollard.

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
E-mail
Office Hours
Monday, Wednesday & Friday 9am to 3pm
Postal Office
PO Box 235, Geelong, 3220
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