Botanic Gardens Day | May 28

Free shuttle bus services

To help make your trip to the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan easier we are providing two shuttle bus services for all visitors coming to our Botanic Gardens Day event.

Campbelltown train station shuttle service to/from Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan  

The shuttle bus will run from Campbelltown Train Station (Stand C) to Yandel’ora Circuit at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan for drop off outside the National Herbarium of New South Wales entrance. The shuttle bus will enter and exit the Garden via Mount Annan Drive.

Campbelltown train station (stand C) to Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan (Herbarium, Yandel'ora Circuit)	Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan (Herbarium, Yandel'ora Circuit) to Campbelltown train station (stand C)
9.30am
10am
10.30am	10.30am
11am	11.30am
11.30am	12.30pm
12pm	1.30pm
1pm	2.30pm
2pm	3.30pm

Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan internal loop shuttle service

We are also providing a free shuttle service to help you get around Australia’s biggest botanic garden on the day of the event. The internal loop service will run one way on Caley Drive from 9.30am to 3.30pm allowing you to park further away on site and get the shuttle service to and from the event taking place at and around the National Herbarium of New South Wales and the Australian PlantBank. The internal shuttle bus will loop past the car parks at Big Idea, Wattle and Banksia and collect patrons and drive to Yandel’ora Circuit and drop off outside the Herbarium Entrance. Download the pdf of the shuttle route. 

Parking onsite

There is limited parking bays available. We will manage the parking areas to fill each car park before directing vehicles onto the next allocated available parking spaces.

Science and Horticulture presentations

Time	Talk title	Speaker
10.15am - 10.45am	The journey of over 1 million plant specimens to Mount Annan	Dr Hannah McPherson Collections Manager, National Herbarium of New South Wales
11.00am - 11.30am	Olivieating the problem - winning the weed war	John Siemon Director of Horticulture, Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust
11.45am - 12.15pm	Life after the olive branch	Michael Elgey Curator Manager, Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan
12.30pm - 1.00pm	Threatened terrestrial orchid propogation	Jessica Wait Technical Officer for Plant Collection & Research, Australian PlantBank
1.15pm - 1.45pm	Wildflowers from the ashes of a Black Summer	Dr Peter Cuneo Manager of the Seedbank & Restoration Research, Australian PlantBank

	Australian PlantBank	Back to Nature	Nursery	iNaturalist
Summary	See science in action on a tour of the Australian PlantBank facility, the award-winning home of plant conservation research.	Join multilingual guides on an walk of the Cumberland Plain Woodland and come together to reflect and record your experience in a special flashbook (provided).	Join our Horticultural Specialist on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Garden's nursery and learn about what we're doing to continue conservation work both in the Garden and across NSW	Join Thomas Mesaglio and Russell Barrett on a walk around the Garden as they point out interesting plants, bugs and everything in between, and demonstrate the iNaturalist app - the world’s biggest online biodiversity citizen science platform.
Start times	11am, 12pm, 1pm, 2pm	10.30am - English 12pm - Arabic & English 1.30pm - Arabic, Farsi & English	10.30am	11am, 1pm
Departure point	See tour departure icon on event map	See tour departure icon on event map	See tour departure icon on event map	iNaturalist stall - see stalls icon on event map
Duration	30 mins	1 hour	1 hour	1 hour
Max capacity	15	12	20	15

This Saturday your little ones can join in the fun at Nature Play sessions!

These 1 hour sessions will be starting at 10am, 11am, 1pm and 2pm.

We’ll be experimenting with recycled and natural materials, learning about and creating water catchment systems and models of the rammed earth walls of the Herbarium.

No bookings required; meet at the Gully across from the Herbarium entrance. Children are to be accompanied by a caregiver for the session.