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The Growing Friends
Join the Growing Friends. This group is just part of an exciting range of activities and events the Friends run for their members. The Friends support the Botanic Gardens providing financial and volunteer support for projects and events. Love the Gardens?
Join the Friends!
The Growing Friends are a group of volunteers who work regularly in the Friends’ Nursery to propagate a range of plants, many being rare or unusual varieties. Most come from stock in the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. The plants are sold at Member only nursery sales or the large Autumn and Spring Growing Friends' Plant sales in the Gardens, to raise funds to support projects in the Gardens.
To join the Growing Friends, members need to be able to commit to working most Fridays in the Nursery for approximately 5-6 hours. There is a waiting list, so apply early if you anticipate being available.
If you are interested in joining the Growing Friends or any of the Friends' volunteer committees download a Volunteer form or contact
the Friends' office
. Volunteers do need to be members of the Friends so
Join Now
to get involved.
Volunteer Application Form
(Adobe PDF File)
The Nursery
The Friends' Nursery is located next to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne works yard. Enter via E Gate and follow path down to RBG works yards.
Staffed by members of the Growing Friends group, it stocks a large range of shrubs, perennials, bulbs, succulents and other plants, both Australian and exotic.
Each month the Growing Friends will showcase a special plant from their Nursery as their Plant of the Month.
Plant sales are conducted at the Growing Friends' Nursery.
The recent changes to Myrtle Rust Control Protocol mean that the Growing Friends Nursery will be open for plant sales every Friday morning (8-12), except when it clashes with the public sales in April and October.
Purchase a
Gift Voucher
in the
Online Shop
, redeemable at Nursery Sales or Plant Sales.
Map of Nursery Location
(Adobe PDF File)
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