Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Kelvin at The Kibble; Protecting Glasgow's Second River
2019-05-14 08:00 - 2019-05-27 17:00 UTC | Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens , Select a Country:
An exhibition organized by The Kelvin Biodiversity Network, a collection of displays and information relating to Glasgow’s Second River.

Please watch for further details of the Family Day on Saturday May 18th
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Exhibitors will include;
Glasgow Museums, RSPB, Friends of the River Kelvin, TCV, Glasgow Natural History Society, Friends of The Earth, Scottish Water (and their contractors on the Kelvin sewer upgrade ameyBlack & Veatch), Scottish Environmental Protection Agency, Keep Scotland Beautiful, and the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens

Books At The Botanics
2019-05-25 10:30 - 2019-05-27 16:00, 2019-06-15 10:30 - 2019-06-16 16:00, 2019-07-12 10:00 - 2019-07-15 17:00, 2019-08-09 10:00 - 2019-08-12 16:00, 2019-09-27 10:00 - 2019-09-30 16:00, 2019-10-19 10:00 - 2019-10-20 16:00, 2019-11-16 08:00 - 2019-11-17 17:00, 2019-11-16 10:00 - 2019-11-17 16:00 and 1 more date
We are a group of full and part time dealers and online sellers, selling a wide variety of second hand, vintage and antiquarian books as well as prints, maps and other paper ephemera.
We promote a friendly family atmosphere where people can browse at leisure in a comfortable environment.
The Botanic Gardens provides us with a venue to collectively display our wares. The venue is wheelchair accessible, buggies are welcome and we are dog friendly.
The Book Fair is located in The Hopkirk Building behind the main range, please follow the signs.

Picture book workshop with Rassi Narika
2019-06-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens , Select a Country:
Make your own picture book! Author and illustrator Rassi Narika is coming all the way from Indonesia to show you how it’s done.
Rassi will read from her newest picture book, ‘When It Rains’, and help you create your own stories and characters. You will leave the session with your very own picture book. Suitable for 4-7 year olds. Materials provided.
‘When It Rains’ is the second picture book by Indonesian author and illustrator Rassi Narika and the translation has recently been published in English by Birmingham publisher The Emma Press. This event is part of Indonesia’s LBF Fringe Programme and is supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.

You can sign up for the event at the eventbrite page the link is below –
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/make-your-own-picture-book-with-rassi-narika-for-children-tickets-60814713445
There is more information on the facebook page the link is below – https://www.facebook.com/events/2763696293658618

Glasgow Science Festival at the Botanics: Energy & Nature
2019-06-08 11:00 - 15:00
Discover Science at Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens.
Glasgow Botanic Gardens
8th June
11:00-15:00
All Ages
Drop in
Free

Join University of Glasgow PhD students, University of Strathclyde engineers and biologists from the Royal Society of Biology in the Kibble Palace to explore energy and the natural world.

How can we clean up our oceans?
How do wind turbines work?
And how can plants help address global challenges?

Learn all of this and more by getting hands on.

For full details go to
http://www.glasgowsciencefestival.org.uk/
Our Science Partners for this Glasgow Science Festival Event

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SRUC Horticulture and Garden Design Recruitment Day
2019-06-21 08:00 - 17:00
On Saturday 22nd June between 11am and 2pm, members of the teaching staff at SRUC will be available to meet and advise on horticultural course selection.
Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens, 730 Great Western Road, Glasgow, G12 0UE

Seed Creatures Crafternoon - RSPB
2019-07-11 10:00 - 17:00

Herb Garden Tour - Ancient Britons To Modern Medicine
2019-07-16 14:00 - 17:00 | Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens , Select a Country:

Tour With The Curator of Glasgow Botanic Gardens
2019-07-31 14:00 - 15:00 | Bower Building, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, United Kingdom
This Garden Tour will be led by Andrew Sinclair the Curator of Glasgow Botanic Gardens. You do not need to book ahead of time to attend. The Tour will leave from the meeting point which is outside The Kibble Palace at 2pm on the 31st of July.

Glasgow And District Fuchsia Society Show
2019-08-24 10:00 - 2019-08-25 18:00 | Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens , Select a Country:

Cancelled Bat and Moth Night at Botanics Friday 30th August
2019-08-30 19:30 - 21:30 | Botanic Gardens, United Kingdom
sorry
this event has been cancelled by the organisers due to forecast adverse weather conditions

Summer Tour in the Botanic Gardens
2019-09-10 14:00 - 15:00 | Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens , Select a Country:

Free Flower Crown Workshop
2019-09-13 10:30 - 12:30 | Kibble Palace, Glasgow Botanic Gardens , Select a Country:

Doors Open Day Filmy Fern House Saturday 21st September
2019-09-21 11:00 - 15:00 | Bower Building, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, United Kingdom
Discover the Filmy Fern House at Glasgow Botanic Gardens, a rocky grotto hidden at the heart of the Gardens.

Learn about ferns with guided tours from fern experts, a microscopic look at fern spores, some library curiosities (one of which is today’s special librarian, Rob) and children’s activities;

We have a fun and educational hunt around the Kibble Palace to find and learn about different shapes of fern fronds.
Make your own Cyanotype of a frond
Design and make your own badge

The tours to the Filmy Fern House are on the hour, 11am, 12 noon, 1 pm ,2pm, 3pm and will last about 30-40 minutes. Meeting point for tours is the Kibble Palace Main Corridor.
Booking is essential for the tours but activities in the Kibble Palace are all drop in.
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Please book through glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk
Please note that while the public areas of the Botanic Gardens are fully accessible, and there are wheelchair accessible toilets and café onsite, this tour goes behind the scenes at the Gardens and some areas have limited access.

Doors Open Day Filmy Fern House Sunday 22nd September
2019-09-22 11:00 - 15:00 | Bower Building, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, United Kingdom
Discover the Filmy Fern House at Glasgow Botanic Gardens, a rocky grotto hidden at the heart of the Gardens.
Learn about ferns with guided tours from fern experts, a microscopic look at fern spores, some library curiosities (one of which is today’s special librarian, Rob) and children’s activities;

We have a fun and educational hunt around the Kibble Palace to find and learn about different shapes of fern fronds.
Make your own Cyanotype of a frond
Design and make your own badge

The tours to the Filmy Fern House are on the hour, 11am, 12 noon, 1 pm ,2pm, 3pm and will last about 30-40 minutes. Meeting point for tours is the Kibble Palace Main Corridor.
Booking is essential for the tours but activities in the Kibble Palace are all drop in.
.
Please book through glasgowdoorsopendays.org.uk

Please note that while the public areas of the Botanic Gardens are fully accessible, and there are wheelchair accessible toilets and café onsite, this tour goes behind the scenes at the Gardens and some areas have limited access

Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens Talk-Horticultural Manavilins
2019-10-24 19:30 - 21:00 | University of Glasgow, Bower Building, Select a Country:
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 left him with a ship load of tales of his horticultural exploits and occasional misfortune. A very engaging speaker, Paul will be delivering the first talk in the Autumn series for the Friends at the University of Glasgow, Bower Building, University Avenue, Glasgow. Talk starts at 7.30 on Thursday 24th October and its free to members of the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens. Non-members also welcome

A Quest For Trees-A talk by Tom Christian
2019-11-14 19:30 - 21:00 | Bower Building, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, United Kingdom
A Quest for Trees-a talk by Tom Christian
The Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens, The Glasgow Tree Lovers’ Society and Glasgow Natural History Society jointly host Tom Christian, Botanical Horticulturalist and Conservationist on November 14th 2019 at 7.30

Tom is a trustee of the charity Woodland Heritage and a member of the IUCN conifer specialist group. In 2018 he was invited to become Assistant Editor of the International Dendrology Society’s ‘Trees and Shrubs Online‘ project, an ambitious initiative to document the world’s temperate tree and shrub species.
********************************************************************************************If you are travelling by car please note the parking restrictions near the venue due to the on-going building work at University of Glasgow and allow time to find a suitable parking space or if possible use an alternative method of transport to venue.

New Watercolour Course-Clare Robinson
2020-01-28 10:30 - 13:00 | Hopkirk Building, United Kingdom
Learn a loose style of watercolour painting to illustrate seasonal flowers at the Botanics.
Weekly Classes to introduce beginners and intermediates to the medium of watercolours.
28th Jan 2020 to 18th Feb 2020
10.30 am till 1pm
Hopkirk Building
Glasgow Botanic Gardens
Cost £116 for 4 week block
Phone 07968 058297

The Arid House Afternoon Tour-Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens Event
2020-02-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Botanic Gardens, United Kingdom
Meet in the Kibble Palace South Wing at 2.00pm for a staff lead tour of the ongoing developments in the two arid houses of the main range.
This is an event for the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens but we welcome new members and guests at these events.

Printing in Woodlands Exhibition (Free)
2020-02-29 10:00 | Botanic Gardens, United Kingdom
Printing in Woodlands Exhibition
Glasgow Botanic Gardens, Kibble Palace South Wing 29th Feb/1st March
10 to 4pm
An exhibition of Eco Printing Community art and Workshops in Eco techniques by Elisabeth Viguie Culshaw
FREE OF CHARGE
29th FEB drop in workshops in Indigo dye tie dye, Cyanotype, Bookbinding, no booking needed.

Printing in Woodlands Exhibition
2020-03-01 10:00 - 16:00 | Botanic Gardens, United Kingdom

New Guinea Begonias and the Glasgow Connection-Friends of GBG Event
2020-03-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Bower Building, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, United Kingdom
Hannah Wilson, Botanist from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh explore the background to the continuing research into the multidiverse Genus of Begonia
This event is for members of the Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens but we welcome new members and guests at all events

CANCELLED-The International Conifer Conservation Programme-The Kibble Lecture
2020-04-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Bower Building, University Of Glasgow, University Avenue, United Kingdom
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED.(13-03-20)
The Kibble Lecture this year is delivered by Martin Gardner MBE, he is the Co-ordinator and driving force behind the International Conifer Conservation Project based at Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Glasgow Botanic Gardens is proud to be listed as a safe planting site for trees produced by Martin’s long running project.
A brief overview from the RBGE website.
For over 25 years Martin Gardner has worked at RBG Edinburgh on many aspects of conifer conservation and currently he co-chairs the IUCN Conifer Specialist Group. Martin co-ordinates the International Conifer Conservation Programme which has played a major role in the completion of the Red List and first global reassessment for conifers; detailed information, distribution maps and images for all of the 211 threatened conifers can be found at http://threatenedconifers.rbge.org.uk/
Part of his work has been to establish one of the world’s most comprehensive networks for the ex situ conservation of threatened conifers. Martin’s work has taken him to over 30 countries in order to study and collect research materials of threatened conifers and their associated species. Particular geographical areas of interest include New Caledonia and Latin America. For this conservation work, especially on Chilean plants, Martin have been awarded an MBE in 2013 and the Veitch Memorial Medal by the Royal Horticultural Society in 2014.
This is an event for The Friends of Glasgow Botanic Gardens but as always we welcome new members and guests to all events.
THIS EVENT IS CANCELLED
