Spring Online Season Pass

NEW!! A Season of Joy!

Launching today together with the Friends’ fabulous Spring Events Program is an opportunity to purchase a ‘Season Pass’ for all online talks.

We know lockdowns and restrictions can be tough so we wanted to bring you something to look forward to with very regular online presentations, from a great line up of speakers, between now and the end of Spring.

Our amazing Events Team have created a wonderful Spring Program including:

‘Celebrating, Understanding and Protecting Rare Wattles’ with Neville Walsh – Wednesday 1 Sep, 5pm
Fairview Park, Hawthorn and surrounds with Liz Yewers – Friday 3 Sep, 10am
‘Celebrating our Herbarium’ with Alison Vaughan – Monday 6 Sep, 5pm
The Arid Garden with Anne Peterson – Thursday 9 Sep, 2pm
A year (or two) at Kew Gardens with Tim Entwisle – Tuesday 14 Sep, 2pm
‘Orchids of Victoria – the Weird and Wonderful’ with Neil Anderton – Friday 17 Sep, 9:30am
‘English Country Gardens’ with Cathy Trinca – Tuesday 21 Sep, 9:30am
‘Celebrating our Trees at the Gardens’ with Charlie Carroll – Tuesday 5 Oct, 5pm
‘The Victorian Conservation Seedbank and Cranbourne Gardens are Raising Rarity’ with Meg Hirst and Russell Larke – Wednesday 27 Oct, 5pm
‘Celebrating our RBGVM Team’ with Lynsey Poore – Wednesday 17 Nov, 5pm
‘Wild: Naturalistic Garden’ with Claire Takacs – Thursday 25, Nov 6pm

A full description about all of these online events is on our website for you explore or you can also see the full list in the new edition of the Spring Botanic News which is available from today.

The Season Pass is great value with at least 12 online presentations being offered for $90. That’s 3 FREE talks!

If you think a ‘Spring Season Pass’ for online presentations is just what you need during these very crazy times, visit the Friends’ online shop.

Things to note:

The Season Pass is available only for members of the Melbourne Friends. If you’re not a member, you are welcome to join here.
At least 12 online events will be presented during the Spring season… although it is very possible more will be added to the program and you will get these basically FREE!
As these events are online they are unlikely to be cancelled due to COVID restrictions and therefore refunds will only apply as per our Refund Policy.
You will be automatically booked into all online talks from the date of purchase.
You will receive the Zoom link for each talk on the day of the presentation as per our standard practice for online events.
If Melbourne re-opens and Mueller Hall sessions open up for bookings in-person, you’ll still be registered to attend online. If you do wish to attend in-person, you’ll need to register and pay for an in-person ticket. You will not be able to upgrade your online registration.

The Friends’ Photography Group engages with the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne through photography. The group meets monthly to either photograph a specific element within the gardens, such as a particular plant species or collection, buildings, autumn colours, or to practise certain photographic techniques such as composition, macro photography, black and white images.

To join the Photo Group you need to be a member of the Friends.

The group meets in the Gardens at 10am on the third Wednesday of each month. Over approximately two hours, group members have the opportunity to take photos reflecting the monthly theme, discuss possible future group activities and spend some social time together.

The group has developed a program for 2021 of monthly photographic themes and some other events.

See program.

It is a flexible program that will be updated during the year. The themes aim to respond to members’ interests and expand their photographic and botanic knowledge.

Many photos taken by members of the Friends’ Photo Group are presented on the group’s Flickr site: www.flickr.com/groups/photo_group_frbgm/