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📣 To keep up with the latest events and displays at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan please follow 👉 @botanicsydney
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🌿✨ You'll also discover what's on, what's blooming, and MORE, at our other Botanic Gardens in Sydney!
✏️ This year's Margaret Flockton Award features these botanical science illustrations of Lavandula pedunculata by Spanish artist Andreia d’Almeida.
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🖼️ Exhibition opens Aug 20 at our Sydney Science Trail event at the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan: bit.ly/3QB2BSb
Dessert time! Grevillea 'Sylvia' shrubs are famous for their sweet taste 🦋🌺
These "bush lollies" thrive during winter, and produce juicy nectar that can be enjoyed straight away, or mixed with a little water for a sweet drink.
Want to learn more about Sydney’s Indigenous history this #NAIDOCWeek?
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We invite you to stroll through the Cadi Jam Ora - First Contact Garden and reflect on the stories of First Nations people and their connection to plants.🌱
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📍Royal Botanic Garden Sydney
Have you explored the Cadi Jam Ora - First Contact Garden at the Royal Botanic Garden #Sydney? 🍃
This #NAIDOCWeek, we invite you to read and reflect on the images and stories that speak of the #Indigenous history of Sydney. 🌿
Learn more: bit.ly/3O0jGD6
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We can't stop marvelling at The National Herbarium of New South Wales' stunning architecture. 🤩 This incredible space just won an award from @AILA_NSW in the Health & Edu category.
Have you visited?
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✏️ Architectus
📷 Brett Boardman
🍃 Explore more: bit.ly/3Ke9Rhc
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Some flowers on my walk this morning @AustralianBG
Always interesting to explore.
Completely free entry.
It is the local MacArthur regions largest tourist attraction.
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May the Forsythii be with you! This #MayThe4th check out the Pink Flannel Flower (Actinotus forsythii). This plant is a bushfire ephemeral and like the Star Wars Rebel Alliance it rises from the ashes🔥This species was banked by @AustralianBG for the #RareBloomProject📸@SeedyGav
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How beautiful are the fruit of Gmelina leichhardtii. @AustralianBG
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Off the plane and of course the first place I head to is @AustralianBG. Great to have a tour of the new herbarium and check out the amazing Australian flora.
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🍃We got our hands dirty yesterday planting four various species of native grass at The Australian Botanic Garden, Mount Annan!👐 Thank you @AustralianBG we appreciate this unique opportunity to contribute to conservation and give back to our environment! fal.cn/3xyf2
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Thanks to our partners @nswenviromedia @QldEnvironment @DAFQld @AustralianBG @BlueMountainsBG @ANBG Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden Lismore Rainforest Botanic Gardens Research Centre for Ecosystem Resilience, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney.
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#Hiring 📣 We have an exciting opportunity for a passionate and creative Senior Media and Content Officer to join the Garden’s News and Content team in this Aboriginal Identified role. Find out more and apply here: iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/seni… – at Sydney, New South Wales
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Teachers from across Sydney recently came together at @AustralianBG to learn about our STEM Community Partnerships Program (STEM CPP).
The session gave teachers an overview of the program, as well as how to introduce it in their classrooms. Find out more: spr.ly/601134x4l
ALT Photo of the seed vault
ALT A male and female adult playing with small multicolour blocks
ALT A cabinet of specimens in jars
ALT A group of adults listening to a facilitator speak
BEATING THE HEAT: @CosmosMagazine goes behind the scenes with Dr Nathan Emery at the Australian PlantBank bit.ly/3LcqtZn
You have to see the beautiful creamy flowers on the #IvoryCurlTree (Buckinghamia celsissima) before they disappear 🌼 This small tree is perfect for growing at home too - low maintenance and attracts pollinators! 🐝
📍 Connections Garden
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This article is an excellent example of how botanic gardens can be agents of change - by sharing knowledge, expertise and collections.
@SeedPartnership
@ANPlantC
@CHABotGardens
@BotGardensSA
@ANBG
@AustralianBG
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Without plants, there would be no life🌱We caught up with @denise_ora, Chief Executive of the Australian Institute of Botanical Science @RBGSydney, to discuss the new Eureka Prize for Excellence in Botanical Science.
#EurekaPrizes #Botany
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