Victoria Ballarat Botanic Gardens has celebrated the 100th anniversary of the ‘Head of the Lake’, and Bendigo Botanic Gardens are implementing the award winning landscape plan and a Curators position will be advertised in the new financial year visitors should note there is now water in the lake! Colac Botanic Gardens are updating their master plan, and also providing an outlook between the gardens and Lake Foreshore. Association of Friends of Botanic Gardens now has 51 members with 29 from Victoria, Please check their updated website http://www.friendsbotanicgardens.org/ ‘Mangroves, Myalls & More’ Conference will be hosted by the Friends of the Australian Arid Lands Botanic Garden Inc. at Port Augusta 18-19 August 2012. Website for more info.
THE BOTANIC GARDEN ISS 33 – JULY 2012
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Footscray Park has plans for a series of restoration projects including storm water harvesting, memorial lawns, and lookout restoration. Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne is very focused on management of the risk of Myrtle Rust through the development of protocols including restriction of plant material coming into the garden, monitoring sentinel plants and setting up quarantine. Sale Botanic Gardens Friends are hosting a ‘Teddy Bears Picnic’ to engage children and we recently held a collections planning workshop with Kevin Walsh to guide the further development of collections Williamstown Botanic Gardens are restoring the ornamental lake, reviewing their master plan to focus on future projects. They will be hosting the next BGANZ VIC network meeting in August themed ‘Restoring Heritage Landscapes’