Friends of the Dunedin Botanic Garden Event Feed

Annual General Meeting

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3pm, Sunday 26 August 2018
This year’s AGM will be held in the Information Centre. The committee are pleased to have newly honoured member of the Friends, Emeritus Professor Helen Leach ONZM to speak. The title of her talk will be The Rise (and Fall?) of the Fashionable Potager an appropriate segue into the launch of our upcoming fundraising project – The Demonstration Gardens.
Refreshments will be available and everyone, members and non-members are all most
welcome to join us.

Download the AGM documents here:
Agenda, Nomination Form, Proxy Form

Rhododendron Day Plant Sale

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Sunday 14 October 2018, 9am - 1pm
Upper Garden Car Park, Lovelock Avenue

• Browse over an amazing range of plants and pick up bargains galore and expert advice.

• Join Rhododendron Dell Curator, Doug Thomson, for a free guided tour of the Rhododendron Dell. Meet at 10am at the Dell entrance sign.

If you would like a stall at the sale please email Gail Loughrey at friends@friendsdbg.co.nz.

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Noon at the Garden Information Centre
Hidden in full view, there is a rich assemblage of over 100 species of lichen at Dunedin Botanic Garden, some quite conspicuous. Allison Knight will illustrate a selection.

Exhibition - This Earth, My Body - Amy Archer

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Daily 10am - 4pm, Garden Information Centre
The planet we live on is an extension of our biological systems. We are
intricately connected and reliant, organs in a greater super-organism.
To function in a harmonious way in this great system is to care for our
own flesh and breath.
All works are for sale.

Photo Competition

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Entries close 28 September 2018. More details here.

HortTalk - What Bird is That?

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Friday 7 September, 12pm - 1pm
Garden Information Centre
Mary Thompson, Regional Representative Birds NZ

Can you recognise the 30-plus species of native and introduced birds that are
regularly seen in Dunedin Botanic Garden? Learn tips on how to identify them
and where to look for them, based on Dunedin studies by Birds NZ members.

Otago Alpine Show

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Saturday 29 September, 10am - 5pm
St Peter's Church Hall, 500 Hillside Road, Dunedin

The annual plant displays and show by the Otago Alpine Garden Group including
specialist plant sales.
$5 entry fee includes morning or afternoon tea.

Where Alpines Meet the Sea

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Monday 29 October, 7.30pm
The Waikouaiti Garden Club present The Alpines of Newfoundland's Limestone Barrens
- a public talk by visiting horticulturalist Todd Boland.
John Brown Room
East Otago Events Centre
$6 entry includes supper.

Botanical Art & Illustration Exhibition

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Olveston Historic Home, 42 Royal Terrace, Dunedin

Opening night: Friday 30 November 5.30-7.30 pm

View exhibition: Saturday, December 1^st – Saturday, December 8^th 2018,
Time: 10am to 4pm daily except for Saturday December 8th when viewing is from 10am to 2pm.

This exhibition highlights work from the Advanced Botanical Art and Illustration Course taught at Olveston in 2018, featuring contemporary botanical art and illustration in Dunedin.

Admission: free