Friends of the National Arboretum Canberra

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Attention! Attention!! Just to let you know that the television coverage continues after the recent feature of the NBPCA on Gardening Australia! Taste of Australia will air this Sunday 3 July on Channel 10 at 4:30pm and will feature highlights of Canberra, the Arboretum and NBPCA. They’ve shared some fantastic images with us taken during the filming, as you can see!

U3A Course on Trees 2022

U3A is again running courses on specific trees/forests in the Arboretum. The course will cover forests planted at the Arboretum including, how the trees became 'known to science', distribution, descriptions, uses and other interesting stories. Each part covers 24 trees in the Arboretum's forests. The dates are: Part 4: Thursdays 11 August–22 September, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon at Flynn Community Hub. Part 3: Wednesdays 31 August–5 October, 10:00 am – 12:00 noon at Hughes Community Centre There is a list of the trees included in each part if you need it to make a choice. Read on for further details ...

Friends' Seasonal Talk - 12 July 2022

Friends are delighted to announce that Dr Prame Chopra will provide our lunchtime Season Talk on TUESDAY 12 JULY at 12.30pm in the Margaret Whitlam Pavilion. His presentation is entitled 'Melting ice and rising seas: how much, how fast?' Dr Chopra, formerly of ANU, will discuss the uncertainties in the future paths of ice volume and sea level, the machinations of the imperfect Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change IPCC) and the likely consequences for us all.

Warm Trees Launch - 6 July 2022

All Friends are invited to attend the launch of Warm Trees for 2022 on Wednesday 6 July at 2.00pm. The event will be launched by the Special Minister for State, Chris Steel MLA, in the company of a Ngunnawal elder and Rob de Castella, who established the Indigenous Marathon Foundation. Friends are thrilled that both organisations are involved in this year's installation. We hope to see you there! See below for invitation with all the details!

A Wollemi of your own - update

Robust and healthy two-year-old Wollemi Pines from the Friends' Wollemi Pine Propagation Project will continue to be sold and are only available on this website. These are very special trees. Each Wollemi can be traced back to the specific tree in the Arboretum's Wollemi Pine Forest 32 from which the seed was sourced. See what you get when you buy this magnificent tree!

Of Interest @ STEP - June 2022

There are some fabulous colours of flora and fauna at STEP this month. Click on the link below for colour to cheer your heart!

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Wollemi Pine

The first 30 Wollemi from the Wollemi Propagation Project are for sale. These are very special trees. Each Wollemi can be traced back to seed taken from a specific Wollemi at the Arboretum.

Each Wollemi package will include:

a Wollemi between 50-80cm tall in excellent condition
a tag showing the Friends’ license number issued under Section 273 of the Nature Conservation Act of 2014 and the tree number in the Arboretum’s Wollemi Forest that the seed was taken from
a Certificate of Authenticity
a brochure describing the Wollemi Propagation Project and giving care instructions for growing your Wollemi.
a QR code enabling you to enter the tree number and identify the exact tree in the Wollemi forest
a bag of Wollemi seed bracts that can be used as mulch

The Wollemi Propagation Project is about preservation of this species. Funds raised support future approved Arboretum projects.

Pickup days and times: Mondays from 10.30 AM to 2.00 PM and Fridays from 10.30 AM to 2.00 PM.

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Latest News

Arboretum and Bonsai on TV - 3 July 2022!

U3A Course on Trees 2022

Friends' Seasonal Talk - 12 July 2022

Warm Trees Launch - 6 July 2022

A Wollemi of your own - update

Of Interest @ STEP - June 2022

Wollemi Pine

The Arboretum 2022 Calendar

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