“Happy Birthday Botanic Gardens” 13 years old!

It is the Botanic Gardens’ 13th birthday on May 24 and the Garden Friends will getting down and dirty for this year’s Birthday present to the Gardens with a Planting bee.

They will be assisting in adding some new features to the Orientation Garden (part of the front entrance to the Gardens’ buildings) on the Saturday, May 21 from 8.30am. Will you be coming to help?

The Garden Friends will also continue with the Gardens’ new database and add more plants as different garden sections are Plant Audited.

The Garden Friends are committed to these projects and plan to contract Ross Demuth to assist with the Plant Audits so the Friends can replace all the faded labels with either new paper labels or our new engraved labels. The paper labels cost around $1.00 to produce whereas the engraved labels are $11.00 per label.

Would you like to give a present to the Botanic Gardens… you can.

If anyone would like to “Sponsor a Garden Bed of Labels” by donating monies via the Garden Friends towards the production of more engraved labels, we would love to hear from you. Even if you would just like to sponsor a few labels, that could be your present to the Botanic Gardens this year for the 13th Birthday. I’m sure new labels would be appreciated by many people.

Contact Maya on 49527321 or 0409750453 or leave a message should you want to donate.

Contact: Mackay Regional Botanic Gardens

Phone: (07) 4952 7300

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