Christmas Bauble workshop with Anna from Herbariwm                                                                     £40

Christmas flower bauble workshop with Anna from Herbarium (Branch & Brush Studios).

Sunday 7th December 10am-12pm at Treborth Botanic Garden.

Enjoy a morning of festive flower fun, creating Christmas baubles with Anna from Herbariwm (Branch & Brush Studios). Perfect to gift to a loved one or hang from the tree! 

You will create three unique baubles, decorated with Anna's collection of locally grown flowers and foliage, each using a different style and technique:

1. Small glass bauble decoupaged with delicate pressed flowers.

2. Large glass bauble filled with colourful dried flowers.

3. Open fronted glass bauble filled with dried flowers and Christmassy scented botanicals.

The workshop will be held at the beautiful Treborth Botanic Garden. Hot drinks and mince pies included.

Booking essential. Places are limited. Please book via Eventbrite: Bauble workshop

Get in the festive spirit and make a Christmas wreath from natural, locally sourced materials. Festive cakes and hot drinks will be included. 

£20 plus booking fee for members (use Contact Us above to ask for discount code); £25 for non-members plus booking fee. 

Booking is essential as numbers will be limited. 

Please book via Eventbrite: Christmas wreath workshop

Friday 5^th December: 4pm - 6pm

Saturday 6th December: 10am - 12pm

Saturday 6th December: 2pm - 4pm

Thursday 13th November 7pm for 7.30 start  

Rosie is a keen gardener from South Lancashire.

Her talk will look at the rich flora of the French regional park of Vercors.  This lies in the SE part of the country, near the border with Italy.   

The largest nature reserve in mainland France, the area is part of the Pre-Alps limestone hills.  It is a superb aea for sub-alpine flowers and 25 species of orchid are recorded here.

This is a Donation event (£5 suggested)

Monday 10th November 7pm                                                                                                   

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission (CWGC) was set up to honour and care for the men and women of the Commonwealth forces who died in the First and Second World Wars, ensuring that they will never be forgotten. Funded by six Member Governments, their work began with building, and now maintaining, cemeteries at 23,000 locations all over the world.

Today, over a century later, the work continues through their staff, supporters and volunteers who preserve the unique cultural, horticultural and architectural heritage and ensures that the stories of those who died are told.

Carol Brown of the CWGC will talk to us about their horticultural work across the globe. She is not charging for her talk, but we will make a donation to the CWGC.

Please reserve a place and make a donation through this Eventbrite link:  CWGC talk.  Then click on Get Tickets. We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

Saturdays fortnightly (first and third Saturdays of the month)

Join resident artist Doreen Weaver who will guide and support you through the process of drawing and painting the captivating structures of all plants: flowers, leaves, fruits or vegetables. Learn at your own pace in an inspiring and supportive environment.

The sessions are held fortnightly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.

Suitable for all levels, beginners welcome (no under 16s).

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.  Materials can be provided for beginners.

BOOKING ESSENTIALemail:  doreensbotanicals@gmail.com or call 07508 728418 for a space.

This is a Re-Scheduled event - due to inclement weather

This is a Donation Event.

The colours, shapes and stories of fungi give us endless fascination. Come and look for them at Treborth!

We are delighted to welcome experts, Nigel Brown and Charles Aron, back to Treborth for our annual fungus foray. It’s a highlight of our calendar and, with over 400 species at Treborth, it’s a brilliant opportunity for all the family to learn more about this amazing hidden world.

Refreshments for sale.

No booking required. Please arrive on time and meet outside the main building.

Please go to Eventbrite to make a donation:  Fungus foray donation. Then click on Get Tickets.

We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

*** Please Note: EVENT CANCELLED DUE TO ILLNESS ***

The Garden has created a moss trail (the Mosses and Liverworts of Treborth) and this will be an opportunity to be guided around the trail with FTBG member and bryologist Sue Grahame. The walk will be followed by an opportunity to have a look at bryophytes under the microscopes in the Lab.

A drink and biscuits will be served. 

£10 plus booking fee for members (use Contact Us above to ask for discount code); £15 for non-members plus booking fee.

Booking is essential - maximum 10 places.

Please book via Eventbrite:  Moss walk

Saturday 11th October 1.30pm for 2pm start

We welcome back Alan Oatway who talked on flowers around Everest and Tibet back in 2016.   

In his working life, Alan was a teacher and a qualified Mountain Leader. Since retirement, he has been able to devote more time to his enthusiasm for mountains and their plants, photography and gardening.

Now, as a regular gardener at Holehird Gardens, Windermere, Chair of N Lancs AGS, committee member of the Meconopsis Group, and member of SRGC, his activities often combine all three interests.  

Alan writes:  "This talk covers lots of flowers, in the context of gardening on rock and in shade in my own garden. I have separated it into sections about raised beds, woodland conditions, wet, rock and "other" - the latter to include all the favourites that didn't fit earlier!"

Saturdays fortnightly (first and third Saturdays of the month)

Join resident artist Doreen Weaver who will guide and support you through the process of drawing and painting the captivating structures of all plants: flowers, leaves, fruits or vegetables. Learn at your own pace in an inspiring and supportive environment.

The sessions are held fortnightly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.

Suitable for all levels, beginners welcome (no under 16s).

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.  Materials can be provided for beginners.

BOOKING ESSENTIALemail:  doreensbotanicals@gmail.com or call 07508 728418 for a space.

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL 18th OCTOBER DUE TO DANGEROUS WEATHER CONDITIONS

This is a Donation Event.

The colours, shapes and stories of fungi give us endless fascination. Come and look for them at Treborth!

We are delighted to welcome experts, Nigel Brown and Charles Aron, back to Treborth for our annual fungus foray. It’s a highlight of our calendar and, with over 400 species at Treborth, it’s a brilliant opportunity for all the family to learn more about this amazing hidden world.

Refreshments for sale.

No booking required. Please arrive on time and meet outside the main building.

Please go to Eventbrite to make a donation:  Fungus foray donation. Then click on Get Tickets.

We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

Donation event (£5 recommended)

The main aim of the walk will be to view and discuss the identification and ecology of seabirds such as Gannet, various species of Gull and some late Terns, Shag and Cormorant, Divers, Fulmar, possibly some late Manx Shearwater, various Auks including Black Guillemot. On land, Pipits, Linnet, Goldfinches, Stonechat, Chough, Kestrel, Raven. In addition to the ornithological interest we have a good chance of seeing cetaceans especially Harbour Porpoise. There should still be some maritime heath (Calluna, Erica, Western Gorse) in flower. Wild orpine grows there as well.

Booking essential – maximum 25 places. Please book and make your donation (£5 recommended)

via Eventbrite: Point Lynas walk

See Read More below for important details.

Saturdays fortnightly (first and third Saturdays of the month)

Join resident artist Doreen Weaver who will guide and support you through the process of drawing and painting the captivating structures of all plants: flowers, leaves, fruits or vegetables. Learn at your own pace in an inspiring and supportive environment.

The sessions are held fortnightly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.

Suitable for all levels, beginners welcome (no under 16s).

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.  Materials can be provided for beginners.

BOOKING ESSENTIALemail:  doreensbotanicals@gmail.com or call 07508 728418 for a space.

Joint Workshop at Treborth Botanic Garden - £95pp

Learn to press flowers in a handmade, traditional wooden flower press and enjoy a guided walk around the beautiful gardens, followed by a fun and creative cyanotype printing session.

You will get to keep your flower press, full of locally grown fresh flowers, to continue your pressing journey at home as well as several pieces of art you will have created on the day.

Hot drinks and cake provided, bring your own lunch.

Email: herbariwm@gmail.com / maryt3688@gmail.com

Facebook: @herbariwm / @morfaseaglass

Instagram: @herbariwm / @marytcyanolumen

Guided walk of Treborth Botanic Garden, for members of the Friends only, with the Head of the Garden, Natalie Chivers-Cross

Booking essential – maximum 20 places. Please book and make your donation via Eventbrite: Garden walk.

Guided walks, plants for sale, refreshments

Admission £4, children free (all admission charges go to the NGS charities)

Venue: Treborth Botanic Garden

Members only 10.00am to 11.00am;

General Public 11.00am to 1.00pm.

All plants are grown by members of the Friends of Treborth and by Treborth Botanic Garden horticulturalists. We will have a wide selection of plants available, which will include vegetable seedlings, annuals and perennials, carnivorous plants, cacti and succulents, house plants, trees and shrubs, and more! We will also be selling a variety of refreshments, and cakes, jams and chutneys. 

A selection of talented local businesses will also be hosting their own stalls selling hand crafted and local produce. 

We can take contactless payments and cash. Free parking. 

Members of the Friends of Treborth Botanic Garden have a private sale hour from 10.00 to 11.00. 

Venue: Treborth Botanic Garden

Members only 10.00am to 11.00am;

General Public 11.00am to 1.00pm.

All plants are grown by members of the Friends of Treborth and by Treborth Botanic Garden horticulturalists. We will have a wide selection of plants available, which will include vegetable seedlings, annuals and perennials, carnivorous plants, cacti and succulents, house plants, trees and shrubs, and more! We will also be selling a variety of refreshments, and cakes, jams and chutneys. 

A selection of talented local businesses will also be hosting their own stalls selling hand crafted and local produce. 

We can take contactless payments and cash. Free parking. 

Members of the Friends of Treborth Botanic Garden have a private sale hour from 10.00 to 11.00. 

Trophies

The Tom Park Trophy will be awarded to the best plant in the Alpine Classes.

The Norman Runham Trophy will be awarded for the exhibitor with the highest points total over all Classes (1-18)

The Margaret Todd Trophy will be awarded to the exhibitor with the most points over all the Open Classes (9-18)

‘Read More’ (below) for details of the Classes

Treborth Botanic Garden, LL57 2RQ

YOU ARE INVITED TO JOIN US TO LOOK AT SOME BEAUTIFUL PLANTS AND PHOTOS

Entries welcome for all Classes. Everyone will have the chance to participate in the judging!

Eric Sutherland Lecture Theatre, Main Arts Building, Bangor University, College Road, Bangor LL57 2DG (arrival from 7.00pm)

Naturalist Mike Dilger had a mission - to see a thousand different wild plants in one calendar year. Having been confined to barracks by the Covid pandemic, and with daily dog walks his sole permitted outdoor pursuit, the simple pleasure of getting to know the flowers at his feet inspired a project that ultimately took him from Cornwall to Kent, and Breckland to the Highlands of Scotland, and included time botanising with Nigel Brown in North Wales.

Palas Print, Caernarfon’s independent bookshop, will be selling Mike Dilger’s book “One Thousand Shades of Green” on the night of the talk, and from the shop or online before the event. To purchase online use this link Palas Print

They will donate £2 for each copy sold to the Friends of Treborth Botanic Garden.

Ticket price: £8 plus booking fee for members of FTBG or AGS (use Contact Usabove to ask for discount code);

£10 for non-members plus booking fee.

Please book via Eventbrite link: Mike Dilger talk

£2 entry on the door to include raffle ticket.

Thursday 6^th February, 7.30pm (doors open 7.15)

The AGS welcome FTBG members to their meetings at Treborth. 

This month’s talk is by Dr Barbara Jones and is titled “Costing the Earth”. Barbara will talk about rare plant hunting in Scotland with Mike Dilger (who is giving our Len Beer Lecture), as well as about conservation projects for threatened upland plants in North Wales. 

Dr. Jones is an ecologist and a climber/mountaineer and has climbed, explored and botanised in several mountain ranges throughout the world.  

This is a Donation event.

Dr Peter Evans is Honorary Professor in the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University. He is also the director and founder of the Sea Watch Foundation, a pioneering “citizen science” organization that educates, informs and advises for better protection for marine mammals. Peter was listed by BBC Wildlife Magazine as one of the 50 most influential conservation heroes.  

A frequent visitor to polar regions, Peter has developed a special interest in arctic alpine plants. He has recently travelled to places such as Svalbard and Northern Norway to see them in the wild. Being a keen photographer, Peter has some great photos of the plants he's seen, and the wildlife, too, of course. 

Please go to our website: www.friendsoftreborthbotanicgarden.org/donate to make a donation (£5 suggested). We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

The AMM will be in the Lab at Treborth but it will also be available to members online if you want to join from home.

This is a Free Event.

The first part of the meeting will be comprised of reports from the trustees and updates from the Garden team.

After a break for refreshments our Treborth experts will be ready to answer your gardening questions!

The number of people in the Lab is limited to 30 and therefore, if you wish to come, please email Simon at friendsoftreborthbotanicgarden@outlook.com to book, or let us know if you want to join online and we will send you the link.

If you have a gardening question, then please include that in your mail.

£2 entry at the door (includes raffle ticket).

The AGS welcome FTBG members to their meetings at Treborth.

This month’s talk is by David Charlton whose talk is entitled ‘Flowers of the Pyrenees’.

David has led alpine flower holidays for Colletts and has co-authored pictorial guides to mountain flowers of several regions including the Pyrenees.

Doors open at 1.45 pm.

This is a Donation Event.

The title of this talk is: “Spot the Difference: Patterns, Peculiarities and Possibilities”

Sean is a Master Craftsman dry stone waller and has written extensively on the subject and lectured world-wide. We have several examples of his wonderful work at Treborth – at the wildlife pond, the new Welsh medicinal garden and the Size of Wales garden.

Sean says the talk is “A look at the variety of dry stonework that can be found across the UK with particular reference to North Welsh examples. From random to coursed, holey and single. Herringbone or vertical, cloddiau, flags and crawiau. Sheepfolds, bridges and barns. Consumption walls, and slate quarries. You name it - if it’s built without mortar, this talk looks at it.”

Please go to our website: www.friendsoftreborthbotanicgarden.org/donate to make a donation (£5 suggested). We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

£2 entry at the door (includes raffle ticket).

The AGS welcome FTBG members to their meetings at Treborth.

This month’s talk is by David Rankin entitled ‘Poles Apart, comparing the plants of China and Chile’.

He is the former President of the Scottish Rock Garden Club. David also gave the Len Beer lecture a few years ago.

Doors open at 7.15 pm.

£2 entry at the door (includes raffle ticket)

The AGS welcome FTBG members to their meetings at Treborth. This month’s talk is by Diane Clement: “Alpines in the Wild and in Cultivation”.

Doors open at 7.15 pm.

Dr Richard Birch (Botanist & Geologist) will lead a North Wales Alpine Garden Society field meeting at Tan Dinas Quarry on Anglesey.

Friends of Treborth Garden are cordially invited.

Donations are welcomed in cash on the day. A minimum of £2 is suggested.

Tan Dinas is a limestone quarry on the east side of Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey, designated as a SSSI for its Carboniferous limestone stratigraphy

Join Dr Richard Birch on a walk along the coastal footpath to this disused quarry to see remarkable coastal views, fascinating geology and several plants otherwise very rare on Anglesey.

Parking is limited and the walk is fairly arduous. The map shows parking for 5 cars near the walk start.

If no parking spaces are available please park in Llanddona at the school (Ysgol Hên). Lifts will be given to the walk start from 9.45 am.

A talk by renowned garden designer Fergus Garrett

Tickets £10, or £8 for members of the Friends

Sgwrs gan y dylunydd gerddi enwog Fergus Garrett.

Tocynnau £10, neu £8 i aelodau'r Cyfeillion.