BGANZ eNews 26 July BGANZ NSW/ACT meeting at Wollongong BG | BCARM forum next Tuesday | Hortis at BGANZ webinar 1 Aug | Myrtle Rust Management for Practitioners webinar 29 Aug | Vacancy conta.cc/4cWgd2r Image: Christchurch BG. Credit: R. Harcourt

This week's news from BGANZ Launch of Living Collections Toolkit at 8GBGC | News from BGANZ NSW/ACT Wollongong meeting | Eucalypt Australia's Dahl Fellowships | Myrtle Rust Management for Practitioners webinar 29 Aug | Indigenous Media Mentoring Program conta.cc/3Yw7zTY

We are thrilled to share that Botanic Gardens Conservation International today announced that The Morton Arboretum and the Chicago Botanic Garden have been selected to host the 9th Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Chicago in summer 2027. The Congress is the only global conference dedicated to botanic gardens and this is

BGANZ's Living Collections Toolkit (LCT) launched at 8GBGC in Singapore yesterday! It's a world-first web-based tool allowing gardens to easily develop a best-practice informed LC Plan for the assessment, management & development of their LCs. See lctoolkit.bganz.org.au #8gbgc

News from BGANZ BGANZ CEO attends 8GBGC | Launch of Living Collections Toolkit at 8GBGC | Eucalypt Australia's Dahl Fellowships close next Tuesday conta.cc/3LXioXB Image: Tessa Kum, Clare Hart, Amy Downie and Peter Symes at 8GBGC. Credit Cassandra Nichols

This week's news from BGANZ. BGANZ member surveys close tonight | Register for the Living Collections Toolkit | BGANZ NSW/ACT meeting next Thurs | Call for articles | News from AAFBG conta.cc/3AmVM0a Image: Singapore Gardens by the Bay. Credit Barbara Wheeler

News from BGANZ Living Collections Toolkit demonstration to members | Welcome Stony Range Regional BG | Myrtle Rust webinars | News from BGCI | NGO International Film Festival conta.cc/3yGCLWi Image: Stony Range Regional Botanic Garden. Credit Andre Porteners

BGANZ CEO Cassandra Nichols had the pleasure of attending the AAFBG Conference hosted by the fabulous Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens Friends at the beautiful MRBBG. Image: Signing the MOU between AAFBG and BGANZ. Credit Friends of the Gold Coast Regional Botanic Gardens

Kangaroo paws are flowering 3 months early at RBG Victoria Cranbourne. This year's early spring may bring mixed emotions to staff in many of our member gardens and arboreta. Read more below from Guardian Australia. ow.ly/RxOa50T87vz Botanic Gardens of Sydney The Australian Botanic Garden

TODAY 2PM AEST - Myrtle Rust Management for Practitioners - Open Series - Session 3 Monitoring & Collecting from Wild Populations of Myrtle Rust Susceptible Species, presented by Craig Stehn Register @ trybooking.com/CTSTT Myrtle Rust on Rhodamnia rubescens credit J. Percival

News from BGANZ Register to attend Living Collections Toolkit demonstration 13 Sept & BARB Forum 25 Sept | Myrtle Rust Management and BGEN Forum recordings available | CCABG Forum 5 Sept | Vacancies conta.cc/3Xr98AH Happy National Wattle Day 1 Sept! Credit R. Harcourt

Has anyone listened to the soil in their garden? Apparently healthy soils are noisy soils, as discoverd by researchers from Flinders University, South Australia. ow.ly/b1zc50Tc4rO

Botanic gardens are cool, in more ways than one. World Economic Forum

BGANZ news BGANZ Award applications open | BCARM Forum: professional development opportunities | BGCI webinar: botanic gardens & the illegal plant trade | IrisBG webinar conta.cc/4cWNjyD One of NZ's most threatened plants, Solenogyne christensenii. Credit B. Xie Dunedin BG

On #ThreatenedSpeciesDay, we thank all our members for their ongoing efforts in creating a future where plants are valued & protected, ensuring a greener, healthier & more resilient world for generations to come. Gibraltar Range Waratah. Credit A. Thornhill CC BY 4.0

BGANZ submission on proposed changes to importation of nursery stock into NZ. See ow.ly/srAS50Tirx2 for details. Image: Kunzea sinclairii, a nationally critical species that is on the proposed list of genera that will no longer be eligible for import. Credit E. Simpkins

More evidence that connecting with nature helps mental health. >8,000 people in the UK were prescribed nature activities, leading to improvements in happiness & decreases in anxiety. ow.ly/fRr950TkLVq Image: Friends of Maroochy Regional Bushland BG. Credit G Miller

Good news from BGANZ on Friday the 13th BGANZ Congress 2025 website now live | BGANZ Awards 2024 applications open online | Webinars galore | AAFBG News | Vacancies conta.cc/3TsC2yO Image: ABG Mt Annan. Credit Glenn Smith

Wrapping infested trees with plastic may be part of the solution to save significant trees from shot-hole borer, including those in Kings Park. ow.ly/mXGj50TnP1m Image: Euwallacea fornicatus. Credit Ken Walker CC BY 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons. #KingsParkandBotanicGardens

Did you know that five times more wild plants are harvested & traded annually than animals? See how Botanic Gardens Conservation International & botanic gardens are tackling this issue, ow.ly/856F50TpH0q. Join the campaign to reverse the threat of extinction facing plants. Visit ow.ly/HsqJ50TpH0u.