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- RETIRED EVENTS - do not publish
- Rongoā rakau: Traditional Medicinal Plant Game
- African plants for Auckland gardens
- Alien badge making
- Alien treasure hunt
- Alien treasure hunt (24 Jan)
- All about birds workshop for kids
- A plant's life cartoon workshop
- Aroha Kauri Day
- Art Group Exhibition 2018
- Artist talk - 7 Feb (1)
- Astronomically fun drop-in activities
- Astronomically fun drop-in activities (9 Feb)
- Autumn Art and Leaf Investigation Trail: 17 April
- Autumn Art and Leaf Investigation Trail: 24 April
- Bird walk and crafts
- Bird walk in the garden
- Book Sale
- Celebrate the closing of Sculpture in the Gardens
- Clivia Show
- Conservation Week 2018
- Conservation week display
- Cosmic plant game
- Create your own forest watercolour artwork
- Create your own sprout creatures
- Create your own wall hangings
- Creative arts exhibition
- Design your own treehouse (drawing)
- Discovery station for kids
- Do veges grown in compost taste best?
- Drop in session: Clay snails
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Edible Plant Part Game
- Egg box gardens
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars (19 Jan)
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars (22 Jan)
- Evening stargazing: Our place in the stars (25 Jan)
- Fishing game
- Forest leaf creatures
- Gardeners of the galaxy
- Gardening in small spaces
- Girl Buoys creations
- Grow Your Own Space Microgreens
- Grow Your Own Space Microgreens (23 Jan)
- Hands on Creatures
- Herb hanging basket demonstration
- In Quarantine
- July school holiday programme
- Kauri dieback talk
- Kids Activities Day - Gardeners of the galaxy
- Kids nature journaling
- Learn how to create a begonia hanging basket
- Little Sprouts (December)
- Little Sprouts (January)
- Little Sprouts (March)
- Little Sprouts (May)
- Little Sprouts (Waitangi Day)
- Live Music: Bruce French 2017
- Live music: Bruce French on Auckland Anniversary Day
- Live music: Bruce French on Boxing Day
- Live music: Bruce French on Labour Day
- Live Music on Waitangi Day: Bruce French
- Live music: Wilde Taylor
- Live music: Wilde Taylor (Sun 20 Jan)
- Gardens in the Sky. Learn about living roofs in our new visitor centre display!
- See our beautiful living roofs
- Living roof workshop for kids
- Make a flying seed & bee hummer
- Make a fun leaf box
- Make your own collage
- Meet the Big Five: African Garden walk
- Mightly Kauri perspective drawing
- Nature bug cards
- Nature-craft Easter cards
- Nature walk treasure hunt
- Nature weaving
- Display and sale of orchids. Free entry
- Display and sale of orchids. Free entry
- Display and sale of orchids. Free entry
- Our star the Sun: holiday activity for kids age 12+
- Paper pet snails
- Perennial plant sale
- Photography Exhibition
- Photography workshop
- Photography workshop with Xavier Radic
- Pollination Puzzle
- Printmaking for adults
- Printmaking for kids
- Rocket gardens
- Rongoā rakau – Traditional Medicinal Plant Game
- Rosehill School Sculpture Exhibition
- Salvias for Summer
- Sculpture in the Gardens returns for summer!
- Seed Sowing for Summer
- Learn about soil health
- Spin a spooky spiderweb!
- Plan your spring garden
- Springtime discovery station for kids
- Stippling art for adults
- Stippling art for adults 28 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 10 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 13 Dec
- Sunday at the Gardens 14 Feb
- Sunday at the Gardens 17 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 21 Feb
- Sunday at the Gardens 24 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 27 Dec
- Sunday at the Gardens 28 Feb
- Sunday at the Gardens 31 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 3 Jan
- Sunday at the Gardens 6 Dec
- Buy plants for your garden
- Terrific trees (10 July)
- Terrific trees (17 July)
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- The Great Kererū Count
- The Secret Life of Flowers
- Japanese tea ceremony
- Tips on garden maintenance
- Toyota Kiwi Guardians celebration
- Venus fly traps
- Wednesday Walk: Spring garden walk
- Wednesday Walks. Free.
- Wednesday Walks. Free.
- Weed busting 101
- Wild Winds discovery station for kids
- Yarn sticks
- Science
- Conservation
- Native species projects
- Applying horticulture and advocacy to threatened plant conservation
- Bringing a taxonomic revision to life
- Orchards of threatened plants
- Plants only found in Auckland
- Pollinating Rātā Moehau
- Seed banking kakabeak
- Seed collecting in the face of Myrtle rust
- The 'Hobsonville kakapo'
- The pale flowering kūmarahou
- Revegetation
- Native species projects
- Research at the Gardens
- Research articles
- Agapanthus for Auckland
- Begonias for summer interest
- Calendula bedding trial
- Calibrachoa bedding trial
- Can we breed a pretty, petal blight resistant Camellia?
- Community Control of Kauri Dieback: Tiaki Kauri
- Daylily rust trial
- Finding rust resistant Hemerocallis for Auckland
- Going low mow
- Gomphrena for mass plantings
- Kauri dieback
- Pretty but not weedy
- Red hot poker trial 2016
- Rengarengas for Auckland
- Sentinel survey for myrtle rust
- Summer bean trial
- SunPatiens: are they resistant to sun scorch?
- To mow or not to mow
- Which tomato cultivars grow well in Auckland?
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- Events
- Hey Pesto!!
- Anniversary weekend music: Wilde Taylor
- Art Group Exhibition
- Artist talk - 14 Feb
- Artist talk - 21 Feb
- Auckland Begonia Festival
- Auckland Begonia Festival - Sunday
- Autumnal art
- Autumn masterpieces
- Autumn plant sales
- Back from extinction: learn about the giant weta
- Be a conservation hero
- Be a conservation hero: kids activity
- Beginner’s workshop: designing with perennials
- Better, Smarter, Greener
- Botanical Art Society Exhibition
- Botanical print making workshop
- Botanical watercolour for beginners
- Botanic Gardens Day 2019
- Botanic Gardens Open Day
- Brenda Hart - jewellery demonstration
- Brenda Hart - jewellery exhibition
- Brenda Hart - jewellery reticulation demonstration
- Brenda Hart repoussé demonstration
- Cancelled: 13 August Winter plant sales
- Cancelled: Conservation Week plant sales
- Cancelled: Conservation Week walk Hillpark forest remnants
- Buy plants for your garden
- Celebrate Spring
- Celebrate Spring! 2017
- Sculpture in the Gardens - opening celebration
- Children’s workshop: create your own mini dinosaur terrarium
- Clay creatures
- Clay creatures with Sasha Reid
- Clay sculpting
- Colourful paper spheres
- Complete the garden drawing
- Conservation expedition (Tuesday 24 April)
- Conservation stories: online session
- Get into nature!
- Conservation Week event: Garden Advice Q&A
- Conservation Week guided walk: biosecurity trail
- Create colourful paper spheres
- Create cut-out animals
- Create paper people
- Create your own mini plant terrarium
- Create your own mini rare plant book
- Winter masterpieces
- Leaf hangings
- Creative Art exhibition
- Creative writing workshop
- Creative writing workshop for teens
- Creativity Unlocked 2020
- Curious creatures
- Curious Creatures1
- Demonstration - hanging baskets
- CANCELLED
- Dino decorating
- Dinofest!
- Dino fest
- Dinofest 2021
- Dinosaur Thaumatropes
- Discovery Station
- Drawing native plants
- Drawing with pen and ink
- Drop in session: school holiday activity
- Drop in session: school holiday fun
- Drop n Learn: Hedge trimming
- Drumming performance
- Dry your own flowers for home
- Elvis in the Gardens cancelled for 2020
- Epic Voyages
- Eye on Nature - Event Cancelled
- Flower of the Underworld
- Free summer music: Bruce French
- Free summer music: Ed Taylor Collective
- Friends artist in residence: art exhibition
- Friends artist in residence: Jennifer Duval-Smith
- Friends Garden Art - annual exhibition
- Friends Photographic Competition Exhibition
- Fruit tree pruning demonstration
- Fun with clay
- Fun with origami
- Fun with origami (2)
- Garden advice with Jack Hobbs
- Gardening with subtropical plants
- Garden planning for beginners
- Get up close and personal with our harakeke (flax) collection
- Gondwana Puzzles
- Grow your own cut flowers
- Guided walk of Sculpture in the Gardens
- Guided walk of Sculpture in the Gardens (2.30pm)
- Hedging and screening workshop
- He Kai Te Rongoa, He Rongoa Te Kai
- Herbalicious!
- Hey Pesto!
- How to look after your harakeke (flax)
- Hydrangea Pruning
- In a Curious Garden
- International Day of the Older Person 2016
- Kokedama workshop
- Korowai demonstration
- Learn about native plants
- Learn how to make your own terrarium
- Learn how to prune your camellias
- Let us help you solve your weed-plant problems
- Library closed
- Little Sprouts (April)
- Little Sprouts (August)
- Little Sprouts (December)
- Little Sprouts (February)
- Little Sprouts (July)
- Little Sprouts (June)
- Little Sprouts (March)
- Little Sprouts (November)
- Live Music: Bruce French on Auckland Anniversary
- Live Music: Bruce French on Labour Weekend Sunday
- Live Music: Bruce French on Waitangi Day
- Live music on the terrace
- Live music: Wilde Taylor on Labour Weekend Monday
- Live online: garden programmes during lockdown
- Live summer music: Bruce French
- Live summer music: Ed Taylor Collective
- Live summer music: The Ed Taylor Collective
- Magical Gardens
- Make Moments Sculpture Tour
- Maori traditional plant use
- Maori traditional plant use (July)
- Maramataka - Maori Lunar Calendar
- Matariki at the Gardens
- Matariki mobiles
- Matariki star crowns
- Microgreens in fun containers
- Mini Flax Creations
- Mini Flax creation with Kerry Gillbanks
- Music in the Gardens
- Native plant survival challenge
- Native plant survival challenge - winter
- Nature journaling for adults
- Nature journaling in the vege garden for beginners
- Nature journaling in the Vege Garden for keen kids
- Nature journalling
- Online: Little Sprouts (September)
- Open Day
- Painting autumn leaves in watercolour
- Painting autumn leaves in watercolour (23 Jun)
- Palm & Cycad Society sale
- Reflections on a botanist
- Pizza plants scavenger hunt
- Plant and gardening books for sale
- Plant conservation tour
- Planting specimen trees
- Planting winter vegetables
- Plants for dry gardens
- Plants for weaving: harakeke
- Pollination and pollinators at your place (Tuesday 10 October)
- Pop up drawing
- Pop up drawing with Toni Mosley
- Preserving your kai (preserving your food)
- Printmaking workshop with Val Cuthbert
- Propagation 101 workshop
- Revegetation seed prep and sowing workshop
- Rongoa Maori - Maori medicinal plants
- Rose pruning workshop
- Scavenger hunt and garden games
- School holiday activity: birds in the garden
- School holiday activity: blossom trees
- School holiday activity: calendula pots
- School holiday activity: map making
- School holiday activity: pollinator paradise
- School holiday activity: rafts and ropes (Thurs 3 Oct)
- School holiday activity: rafts and ropes (Wed 9 Oct)
- Sculpture in the Gardens returns for summer!
- Sketching for botanical composition
- Smoothie workshop
- South Auckland 360 Heart Stopper Challenge
- Spring at the Gardens
- Spring plant sales
- Spring school holiday programme
- Sprout heads
- Stencilled leaf patterns
- Stepping out into nature
- Summer fruit tree pruning
- Summer music at the Gardens: Bruce French
- Summer music: Bruce French
- Summer music: Ed Taylor Collective
- Summer music live: Bruce French
- Summer music: the Ed Taylor Collective
- Summer plant sales
- Sunday at the Gardens 7 Feb
- Sunday guided walk of Sculpture in the Gardens
- Buy plants for your garden
- Sunday plant sale - December
- Buy plants for your garden
- Sunday plant sale - January - cancelled
- Buy plants for your garden
- Sunday plant sale (November)
- Buy plants for your garden
- Sunday plant sale - September
- Sunday sculpture guided walks
- Symbiosis & Forest has the Blues
- Talk: Alpine Plants & Rock Garden Plants
- Te Kura O Te Kauri
- Te Puhinui Big Clean
- Tiny terrariums
- Tool maintenance workshop
- Tōu Ipu me Tōku Ipu Kōkōwai
- Annual Sale
- Tree Crops Annual Tree, Plant and Craft Sale
- Tree pruning
- Tree Stories
- Tree Trail Scavenger Hunt
- Using native plants in your garden
- Wednesday Walks. Free.
- Wednesday Walks. Free.
- Wednesday Walks. Free.
- Weeds or food?
- Whakanuitia I Te Taiao, Whakanuitia I Nga Iwi
- Wilde Taylor: live summer music
- Winter in the African Garden
- Workshop: Courtyard gardening
- Workshop: Plants in Containers
- Workshop: Seed Saving
- Wriggle & Rhyme in the Children's Garden
- Wriggle & Rhyme in the Gardens
- Write!
- Your own forest book
- Eye on Nature Whānau Day
- Live music in the Gardens: Bruce French
- Live music: Wilde Taylor
- Live summer music: Bruce French
- Live summer music: Wilde Taylor
- News
- Advice for gardening in a drought
- Aloes on the move
- An enduring fascination
- A new pest for kauri?
- A Sculptured Gardens
- Awhi Rito reinstalled
- Best-fit botany works for home gardens, too
- Biosecurity trail at the Gardens a finalist in the Biosecurity Awards
- Biosecurity trail empowers visitors to protect New Zealand flora
- Botanic Gardens Day celebration
- Calibrachoas for Auckland
- Call for Artists - Sculpture in the Gardens 21/22
- Celebrating a milestone for Kiwi kids in nature
- Celebrating National Volunteer Week
- Community Control of Kauri Dieback: Tiaki Kauri
- 'Entwined' to join the Gardens' permament collection
- Exploring engineering through folds of paper
- Garden development under way
- Gardening in small spaces
- Getting kids into nature
- Growing tomatoes!
- Heritage harakeke (flax) gifted to Whangarei Boys High School
- Holes in my pohutukawa leaves
- Introducing Brenda Hart - Friends visiting artist 2019
- Job opening at the Gardens - Curator
- Learning apiculture
- Meeting rare native plants at the Gardens
- New from the trial garden
- New from the trials
- New trial article
- Sculpture in the Gardens update
- Partnership to conserve Myrtaceae
- Plant and gardening books
- Recent trial publication
- Removing pest plants from the Gardens
- Research into kauri dieback
- Rose and Perennial Garden projects
- Sculpture in the Gardens announcement
- Sculpture in the Gardens 2017-18
- Sculpture in the Gardens 2019-20
- Sculpture in the Gardens - artists announced
- Sculpture in the Gardens opens to the public
- Searching for an upright oioi
- Sculpture in the Gardens closing celebration
- Summer, sorted
- Supreme Award Winner 2019
- Take a bite out of summer 2021
- Te Kura o te Kauri
- The Gardens is going zero waste
- The great gardening boom
- The 'Hobsonville kakapo'
- The pale flowering kūmarahou
- 'The plants start to feel like old friends'
- Through the magnifying glass
- Top tips for autumn gardening
- Toyota Kiwi Guardians: detailed adventure map
- What beans to grow in Auckland?
- What to plant, where to plant and how to look after
- Zero waste update
- Prehistoric Plant Walk
- Summer music: Bruce French live
- Waitangi day music: Wilde Taylor
- WIDGETS AND TEMPLATE EXAMPLES. Do Not Publish