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Seedlings Nature School
Watch your kids grow...at Seedlings Nature School.
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Seedlings Nature School
Watch your kids grow...at Seedlings Nature School.
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Markets at Lakeside
Monthly Lakeside Markets are back!
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Markets at Lakeside
Monthly Lakeside Markets are back!
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Botanic Gardens Day | May 28
Learn about the fascinating world of botanic science and horticulture at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan’s free community event to celebrate Botanic Gardens Day on May 28.
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Botanic Gardens Day | May 28
Learn about the fascinating world of botanic science and horticulture at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan’s free community event to celebrate Botanic Gardens Day on May 28.
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Exhibition 1 | 15 May – 30 July 2022
Discover how science and art combine to highlight the importance of plant life at the Tellus Art Project at the Australian PlantBank.
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Exhibition 1 | 15 May – 30 July 2022
Discover how science and art combine to highlight the importance of plant life at the Tellus Art Project at the Australian PlantBank.
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Visit Australia’s oldest scientific institution to learn about our latest scientific discoveries. We've been studying and documenting plant life in New South Wales and Australia for over 200 years.
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Our work & discoveries
National Herbarium of New South Wales
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Australian PlantBank
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Vital Science
The Botanic Garden is a living lab. Home to some of the world's most valuable plant scientists, solving some of humanity's most vital challenges.
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Vital Science
The Botanic Garden is a living lab. Home to some of the world's most valuable plant scientists, solving some of humanity's most vital challenges.
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Branch Out
Branch Out with our new podcast and discover the surprising world of plants with science and stories from Australia’s oldest living scientific institution.
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Branch Out
Branch Out with our new podcast and discover the surprising world of plants with science and stories from Australia’s oldest living scientific institution.
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Plants
Plants
The Australian Botanic Garden is home to thousands of different plants. Learn more about our displays and the poeple who created them.
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Gardening
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Flowering calendar
The Flowering Calendar is a quick, easy way to find out which plants are in bloom in the Australian Botanic Garden beds this month.
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Flowering calendar
The Flowering Calendar is a quick, easy way to find out which plants are in bloom in the Australian Botanic Garden beds this month.
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Learn more about the people who maintain and develop the Australian Botanic Garden's woodland, lawn and cultivated areas.
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Meet our team
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Experience unique learning activities that will engage and surprise both you and your primary school students at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.
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Primary programs
Experience unique learning activities that will engage and surprise both you and your primary school students at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.
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Be amazed by the latest botanical discoveries! Our unique science programs will engage and inspire Secondary students.
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Be amazed by the latest botanical discoveries! Our unique science programs will engage and inspire Secondary students.
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The Australian Institute of Botanical Science
Discover how the new Australian Institute of Botanical Science will advance fundamental knowledge of flora and drive effective conservation solutions to ensure the survival of plants, and all life that depends on them.
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The Australian Institute of Botanical Science
Discover how the new Australian Institute of Botanical Science will advance fundamental knowledge of flora and drive effective conservation solutions to ensure the survival of plants, and all life that depends on them.
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Scientists make unusual discovery on Uluru
Scientists from the
Australian Institute of Botanical Science
have made a once in a lifetime discovery, recognising a plant species new to science growing on Uluru.
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Scientists make unusual discovery on Uluru
Scientists from the
Australian Institute of Botanical Science
have made a once in a lifetime discovery, recognising a plant species new to science growing on Uluru.
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Let your love grow and hold your wedding at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
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Let your love grow and hold your wedding at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
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Create Play Grow with Kids
Create Play Grow with Kids
Cultivate curiosity with fun activities for kids at home these holidays!
A range of online activities, encouraging kids to look closer, explore and discover more about the natural world.
Pick from the fun activities below to get started!
To watch and explore
Extreme Adaptation
Plants and animals take adaptation to a whole new level! Grab a front-row seat to a science show that shares how they’ve been doing it for thousands of years.
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A Story of Adaptation
Follow four little seedlings in a puppet play adventure through the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, and learn how they have cleverly adapted to certain areas of the country.
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Taste and Smell with Billie
Explore your sense of smell and taste
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Sight, Hearing and Touch with Billie
Explore your sense of sight, hearing and touch
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Play and Plants with Billie
Explore and learn about plants through play
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The Bees' Knees
Bee entertained - Theatre for Kids
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Build a Cubby
Watch how to build a cubby
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Pollinator Portal
Sing along in the pollinator patch
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To look, make and grow
Pitfall Traps
What animals will you find?
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Eagle Eyes
Can you find your prey like an eagle?
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Digging Sticks
Craft your own digging tool!
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Dip-netting
What lives in the pond?
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Collecting Tinder
Find the perfect fuel for your fire.
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Charcoal Leaf Drawing
Take your craft sessions outdoors
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How to Plant a Tree!
A step-by-step guide to plant your tree.
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Make a Cubby House
Construct your own shelter by following this step-by-step guide
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Tree Climbing
Let’s explore the canopy!
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Let's go for a Nature Walk
Country is an important part of First Nations culture and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People did their best to be good stewards of the land and sea. Use this activity to go on a nature walk to observe and listen to Country.
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Sprouting Seeds
Being good stewards of the land and sea includes taking care of and managing plants and their environment. Why not try sprouting your own seeds at home?
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Natural artworks
What lies outside your door or window? How can your backyard inspire an original artwork?
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Garden Safari – the Royal Botanic Garden
What’s the world’s most dangerous fruit? What super-nutritious plant is set to blast off into space? Go on safari and find out!
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Weave a bracelet
Let's recycle discarded charging cables by weaving a bracelet!
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Tree Trail - Australian Botanic Garden
Get ready to go on a sensory adventure through part of the gardens using smell, sight and touch!
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Woodland Treasure-hunt
Go on a bush-walk without leaving your house!
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Flytrap SNAP
Can you SNAP as fast as a hungry meat-eating plant?
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From my Window...
Let's send our minds outside to play!
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Going on a Bug Hunt
We're going to catch some amazing ones!
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Make a Map
Take a bird's eye view of our beautiful world.
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Obstacle Course
Make your own physical challenge!
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Stop and Spot
Sit and observe the world around you...
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Tower of Sticks
Towers and hours of fun!
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Insect Hotel
A place to stay - for your six-legged friends!
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Dyeing Eggs
Create coloured eggs with natural plant dyes!
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Potato Tic-tac-toe
Create stamps and play a fun game of tic-tac-toe.
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Make a Puggle
Make your own baby echidna!
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Carnivorous Plant Quiz
Are you a carnivorous plant expert?
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Growing seeds in Recycled Containers
Community Greening and Aboriginal Education Officer Brenden Moore shows us how to recycle plastic containers to grown our own seeds.
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