Please note that this program is subject to change without notice.
Sunday 2 November | |
1500-1700 | |
1600-1800 | |
1600-1640 | BARB - BQ: Come and join the BARB Arborists and tree managers for a sausage sizzle and tree people mingle |
1630-1800 | BGANZ 2025 Welcome Reception |
Monday 3 November | |
0800-1800 |
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1800-1900 | BGANZ AGM |
1930-2100 | Twilight Tour of the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) |
Tuesday 4 November | |||
0800-1700 | Registration Desk Open | ||
0830-0845 | Pre congress coffee & tea | ||
0845-0905 | Welcome to Country Ceremony | ||
0905-0925 | Welcome Address | ||
0925-0940 | Director, ANBG | ||
0940-1000 | Setting the Scene for BGANZ Congress 2025, Cassandra Nichols, Chief Executive Officer, BGANZ | ||
1000-1030 | Morning Tea | ||
1030-1115 | Keynote Presentation: Dr Paul Smith | ||
1115-1200 | Keynote Presentation: Advancing plant sciences and conservation through best practice traditional owner collaborations, Dr Stephen Hopper | ||
1200-1300 | Lunch | ||
| Planning for the Future (1) | Branching Out (1) | Innovation (1) |
1300-1320 | Can't do it without you: Collaboration and Codesign in Collections Display Andrea Proctor, Andrea Proctor Landscapes | Learning not to separate Country and People in ex-situ plant conservation Mitchell Korda, ANBG | Cycad Conservation in Australia and the Role of Botanic Gardens |
1320-1340 | Burrendong Botanic Garden and Arboretum - BBGA BEYOND60 Rachel Mac Smith, Burrendong Botanic Garden & Arboretum | Raising Rarity: Sowing the Seeds of Wonder Megan Hurst, RBGV
| Advancing plant science through a consolidated information system at the Australian National Botanic Gardens Anne Fuchs, ANBG |
1340-1400 | Garden for the Future: Reflecting on the Design of Resilient Botanic Landscapes for a Changing Climate | Crafting Nature: The Evolution of Larni Garingilang in Bendigo Botanic Gardens Kirstie Paterson, City of Greater Bendigo | Seed Banking Conservation Ladder: A Framework For Assessing Ex Situ Conservation Knowledge Gaps Freya Brown, National Seed Bank |
1400-1420 | The Journey of the Transformation of an illegal industrial dumping ground into The Melbourne | The Changing Landscape of Education in Botanic Gardens: Cultivating Well-being through Nature
| Antarctic Beech ex-situ conservation– from cutting edge conservation genomics, to cutting conservation hedges |
1420-1440 | Volunteers Journey with Plant Collection Recording
| Greener On the Outside - Engaging 'disengaged' youth through an inclusive outreach program | Fighting with nature – managing wild ecosystems in a botanic garden |
1440-1500 | Devastation to opportunity - The impacts and analysis of Cyclone Alfred on Gold Coast Botanic Garden's Living Collection | Story First, Latin Later: Creating Emotional Connections to Conservation Collections Amalia McLaren-Brown, Wellington Gardens, NZ | Gandel Gondwana Garden at Melbourne Museum a 'walk' through time with the landscape architects |
1500-1530 | Afternoon tea | ||
| Planning for the Future (2) | Branching Out (2) | Protecting Plants & People (1) |
| Botanic Garden of Sydney's Living Collections Climate Change Resilience Strategy
| Conservation through Collaboration at the Dandenong Ranges Botanic Garden
| Preserving Heritage and Horticulture: The Seismic Upgrade of Auckland Domain Winter Garden |
1550-1700 | 1550-1650 WORKSHOP - CRITICAL REIMAGINING - Botanic Gardens of the Future Tessa Kum, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | 1550-1650 WORKSHOP - Amorphophallus titanum - Australia & New Zealand Metacollection
| 1550-1610 Phytophthora Surveillance, Risk Management, and Conservation Impacts: from Botanic Gardens and nurseries to World Heritage Areas |
| 1610-1630 Move the bench: using tree risk assessment frameworks to inform tree protection. Chelsea Payne, Botanic Parks & Gardens Authority | ||
| 1630 -1650 Optimising compost quality, quantifying Soil Health and remediating poor soil conditions. - Hepburn Shire Council, Sustainability Victoria Matthew Daniel, Hepburn Shire Council | ||
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1730-1830 | The Great Debate | ||
1900-2200 | BGANZ 2025 Congress Dinner |
Wednesday 5 November | ||||||
0800-1700 | Registration Desk Open | |||||
0830-0845 | Pre-congress coffee & tea | |||||
0845-0930 | Keynote Presentation: Dr Fiona Fraser, Threatened Species Commissioner | |||||
0930-1000 | Keynote Presentation | |||||
0930-1030 | Keynote Presentation: Co-Designing a Māori Garden, Rebecca Stanley Auckland Botanic Gardens, New Zealand | |||||
1030-1100 | Morning tea | |||||
| Innovation (2) | Protecting Plants & People (2) | Branching Out (3) | |||
1100-1120 | Weaving new science through historic botanic garden fabric Richard Barley MBE, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK
| Plant Health Australia’s Role in the Biosecurity Partnership Between Government and Industry Sarah Corcoran, Plant Health Australia | Event Horticulture: experiences and learnings to share from Adelaide Botanic Garden Leonie Scriven, Botanic Gardens & State Herbarium
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1120-1140 | iNaturalist – A National Approach to Citizen Science in Botanic Gardens Patricia Kaye, Wallace Herbarium, Eurobodalla Regional Botanic Gardens | Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in the Tropical Glasshouses at the Australian National Botanic Gardens (ANBG) Kathryn Scobie, ANBG | With kids, for kids, by kids: Refreshing the Children's Garden storytelling at Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne Sally McPhee, Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria | |||
1140-1200 | Saving the Murrumbidgee River Corridor’s rarest occupant using a holistic conservation approach Veronica Briceno Rodriguez, ANBG | Biosecurity in Botanic Gardens John Siemon, Botanic Gardens of Sydney
| Open their hearts and blow their minds – 43 years of storytelling at the Botanic Gardens of Sydney Paul Nicholson, Royal Botanic Gardens & Domain Trust | |||
1200-1220 | The Ian Potter National Conservatory – Plants and Horticulture Veronica Briceno Rodriguez, ANBG | The BGANZ Living Collections Toolkit: Building Capacity, Planning for the Future Sheree Parker, Geelong Botanic Gardens | Grow Wild: Kew + Communities = positive outcomes for biodiversity and wellbeing Richard Barley MBE, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, UK | |||
1220-1240 | Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust Funding Opportunities Nancy Kartes, Stanley Smith Horticultural Trust | The value proposition of Botanic Gardens in growing cities Bec Ramsay, Wellington Gardens, NZ | ‘Botanic Gardens beyond the Gates’ Wollongong Botanic Gardens’ role in creating a Botanic City Felicity Skoberne, Wollongong Botanic Garden | |||
1240-1300 | Supporting species recovery under the Critically Endangered Project Bradley Desmond, Australian Seed Bank Partnership |
| Connecting to Country: Inspiring Awe and Wonder through Outdoor Learning – should be 20 minutes Tracey Saunders Australian Botanic Gardens | |||
1300-1345 | Lunch | |||||
| Innovation (3) | Branching Out & Innovation | Branching Out & Innovation (2) | Protecting Plants & People (3) | ||
| 1345-1500 - WORKSHOP Professional Development Workshop - Growing our people: Growing the plants John Arnott, PD Working Group
| 1345-1500 - WORKSHOP Global Strategy for plant conservation for botanic gardens Damian Wrigley Botanic Gardens of Sydney | 1345-1350 Discover how the Botanic Gardens of Sydney used strategy and innovation to become an industry leader in Camellia conservation worldwide Ashley Filipovski, DPIE | 1345-1445 WORKSHOP BARB Outdoor tree protection: Balancing sustainable development for our gardens with the needs of our trees. Ian Allan, The Blue Mountains Botanic Gardens | ||
| 1350-1355 Innovative approach to conservation of Eupomatia laurina in Victoria Dr Frank Greenhalgh, Retired - Collaborating with Maranoa Botanic Gardens, City of Boroondara | |||||
| 1355-1400 Promoting nature-based solutions: botanic gardens as the shop window for public and professionals Emma Simpkins, Auckland Botanic Gardens | |||||
| 1400-1405 Survivor Trees, Hiroshima – Trees as Tools for Peace Virginia McNally, The University of Melbourne | |||||
| 1405-1410 Problem solving for holistic ex situ conservation of vulnerable subalpine species Bek Hyland, ANBG | |||||
| 1410-1415 Plants for Pollinators Fiona Chambers, Wheen Bee Foundation | |||||
| 1415-1420 Full Bloom: Cultivating Connection and Wellbeing in the Garden for People Living with Dementia Sarah Brikke, Botanic Gardens of Sydney | |||||
| 1420-1425 BARB i-Tree Canopy assessment of the economic benefits our trees provide. Ian Allan, The Blue Mountains Botanic Garden | |||||
| 1430-1500 - WORKSHOP Growing Connections: Opportunities for more collaboration on teacher friendly educational resources and programs across botanic gardens Graham Tupper, Friends of the North Coast Regional Botanic Gardens, Coffs Harbour | |||||
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1500-1520 | Afternoon Tea | |||||
1520-1550 | Plenary Presentation: Heads of Botanic Gardens Panel Discussion (CHABG/BGANZ) | |||||
1550-1600 | BGANZ Board Wrap and Conclusions | |||||
1600 | Congress Close |
Page photo credits:
Friends Wollongong BG - Wollongong Botanic Garden
Harvesting Phebalium davesii seed at RTBG nursery - Royal Tasmanian Botanical Gardens
Visitors to the Hoop Pine Forest - Tracey Whitby
Cranbourne Gardens Nursery Staff Propagating Care for the rare collections - RBGV
We acknowledge Australia's First Nations peoples as the Traditional Custodians of Country throughout Australia. We recognise their continuing connection to land, waters and community. We respectfully acknowledge the role that First Nations people continue to play in shaping Australia's democracy. We also acknowledge the Ngunnawal, Ngunawal and Ngambri peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the region in which The Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House is located.