Like modern day Loraxes, our volunteer guides speak for our trees, flowers, fungi, for all our living collections and even our dried collections in the Herbarium. For my part, I have spent 22 years as a horticulturist caring for the living collections and 10 years telling their stories and training volunteers to do the same. Face to face interpretation allows us to create emotional engagement and personal connection. Our aim is to make our stories and tours E.R.O.T.I.C – Engaging, Relevant, Organised, Themed, Inspiring and Connected. If we can make our visitors laugh and cry, we can build connections to our plants, gardens, scientific research and inspire our visitors to action. In recent years we have pushed the boundaries of how we create and deliver these stories to engage a more diverse audience. The Queer Plants Walk, under the banner of Love your Nature, was a collaborative initiative involving science staff, volunteer guides and volunteer program staff designed to celebrate diversity in the natural and social world as part of the Mardi Gras festival Sydney, and later for Sydney World Pride 2023. Rooted in 43 years of content development by volunteers, this walk is in equal parts silly, sexy, sequined, and scientific. Join manager of volunteer programs, Paul Nicholson to learn how flipping the script on how we speak about plants, from facts first to fun first, can provide a template for how we engage audiences.