Gardens
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2024 CPH Graduates
The Friends would like to congratulate the most recent cohort of CPH graduates on completing their certification! Well done to all and a big THANK YOU to our instructors on another successful season!
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Tales from the Tours: Plant Hunters
Everyone loves a monkey puzzle. Araucaria araucana is a unique and popular ornamental conifer in UK gardens. But how did it get here? In 1795 Archibald Menzies (1754-1842) voyaged with Captain George Vancouver on HMS Discovery. Invited to dinner by the Governor of Chile in Santiago, he was served some large seeds for dessert, slipped…
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Glasgow Flower Gardens
Sweet peas are going to make a come back in our Annuals Garden this year. They were a highlight in our first year at the Botanics in 2017 so we are excited to have new space for them with the removal of the little Thuya hedge edging our plot. Seed sowing has begun in earnest…
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Kibble Palace tours
Many of those reading will be aware of the very successful summer and autumn tours of Glasgow Botanic Gardens led by our garden guides in 2023. As a further development The Friends and garden guides will commence winter tours of The Kibble Palace from mid January onwards 2024. These will be led by our volunteer…
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AGM 2023
Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens Annual General Meeting Monday, 4 September 2023 at 6.30pm in the Kibble Palace An agenda has been circulated to members but we wish to draw particular attention to the need for new officers and committee members in the coming year. Please see the attached leaflet for details and feel free…
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Tour Guide Volunteers
The Friends of the Glasgow Botanic Gardens are planning to start public tours of the Botanics in July. The aim is to raise awareness of the fascinating plant collections, conservation work and history of the Gardens and also to help raise funds for its continuing growth and maintenance. We are looking for Guides. Would you…
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Proposed Glasshouse Charges- A statement by the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Glasgow Botanic Gardens – Glasgow City Council introduction of entry charges to Glasshouses Response by the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens At this time, the Friends have no information from the City Council other than the press information suggesting charges to the Glasshouses will be introduced raising a reported £185,000, presumably annually. To date, there…
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Opening Hours New Year 2023
Opening Hours January 1, 2, 2023 As always the Gardens are open from 7am with the last gate being closed (Main Gate) at 5pm. (These are the gate times until 31st January) The Glasshouse opening times including Kibble Palace are 10am until 4pm. Glasshouses are free entry, no booking required and managed by Glasgow City…
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Tea Room at the Botanics
The Tea Room at the Botanics will be closed from 23 December 2022 until 1 April 2023. We hope to bring you further details of the reopening and revised menu when we have it.
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Garden update: Weeping Ash
The end of an era The Botanic Gardens’ Weeping Ash, the tree that travelled from the original site at Sandyford, Sauchiehall Street in 1841 to the present day Great Western Road site, has finally fallen victim to Ash Die Back Disease. Early on the morning of 24 August 2022 it was felled by Glasgow City…