the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens
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Visitor information
The Garden grounds are open from 7a.m. till 9pm at the moment (times may vary for operational reasons. Where this happens we will try and post advance notice) The Kibble Palace and the Main Range Glasshouses have reopened and the operating hours are 12noon until 4pm. This altered service allows horticultural staff to conduct all…
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Keep Scotland Beautiful- Green Flag Award
The Gardens are delighted to be awarded the Keep Scotland Beautiful Green Flag for 2020 and are working to maintain these standards in 2021. The Green Flag Award recognises the best parks, gardens and green spaces across Scotland. It is awarded to parks, gardens and green spaces who can demonstrate excellent management and environmental standards.…
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Please vote to fund our new project!!
The Gardens are just waking up but the Friends have been active over the winter and in particular supporting the Friends of Glasgow Parks Forum. The Forum has been leading the “Participatory Budgeting” process with the City Council – this sounds complicated but can be summarised by saying there is £90,000 available for new projects funded by Wee Green…
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Exhibition: Printing in Woodlands
Free Workshops & Exhibition – No booking required Printing in Woodlands Exhibition29 February – 1 March 2020, 10am to 4pmKibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, South Wing An exhibition of Eco Printing Community art and Workshops in Eco techniques by Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw Drop-in workshops 29 FebruaryIndigo dye tie dye, Cyanotype and Bookbinding
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Happy New Year, what will 2020 bring?
Happy New Year to all visitors and Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens. We will hopefully bring you lots of exciting events and highlight interesting additions to the collections over the next couple of months. One interesting point to make is that 2020 marks the 200th anniversary of the arrival of renown plant collector David Douglas…
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Index Seminum 2019/2020
We will be putting up our Index Seminum Seed Exchange List on the 18rd November 2019.Please click on this link The form will be available for completion online only this year and we hope to have orders processed by early 2020. The exchange is open only to those with an IPEN registration GBG
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The Great Escapers- Help us track them down in Glasgow!!
We are looking outside of the Botanic Gardens for this task in an attempt to assist our partners at the Botanical Society of the British Isles. As part of a nationwide effort to record as many plant species as possible growing ‘as wild’, the BSBI is very keen to hear from anyone in Glasgow who…
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Horticultural Manavilins- Tall Tales as told by ex-curator Paul Matthews
As befits a proud member of the Cornish diaspora Paul Matthews talk on Thursday 24th October 2019 smacks of the sea but possibly in title only. A manavilin is a nautical term of bits and pieces, odds and sods or the scraps left over in a barrel. Paul’s long career in botany and horticultural has…
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UPDATE 30/08/2019 bat and moth night cancelled
BAT AND MOTH NIGHT 30/08/2019 IS CANCELLED THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY THE PARTNER ORGANISATIONS DUE TO THE POOR WEATHER CONDITIONS FORECAST FOR THIS EVENING. FOR UP TO DATE CONSERVATION AND EVENT NEWS PLEASE CHECK BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION WEBSITE OR CLYDE BAT GROUP ON FACEBOOK FOLLOW @SAVEBUTTERFLIES AND @CLYDEBATGROUP Time of event CANCELLED.…
