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A Collection of Beautiful Things

A guided tour of the Gardens

ABG Photographic Competition - Mood of the Gardens

Accessible Gardening with Chronically Ellen

ACE Your Photography

Adult Botanical Art in Stick and Ink, Pen and Ink Stipple

Adults Nature Journalling with Sandra Morris

All About Phoenix Oyster Mushrooms

Amazing carnivorous plants workshop - Wintergardens Sunday Art Sessions

Annual pest-free moth plant pod competition

Aramex Kiwi Walk & Run Series at the Botanic Gardens

Art of Arancini

Art with Agata

Art with ecoprints

Artist guided walk for Sculpture in the Gardens with Richard Mathieson

Artist’s Sculpture Walk

Artist talk & sculpture walk - James Wright

Artist talk & sculpture walk - Jim Wheeler

Ask an expert: pest plant edition

Auckland Domain Wintergardens

Spring Flowers

Auckland Tree Crop Sale

Auckland Tree Crops annual sale

Audio Described Tour of Sculpture in the Gardens

Autumn activity sheet

Autumn Guided Walk

Autumn leaf boxes

'Back in the Day' Play Day

Banana thinning with the Urban Orchard Group

Banana workshop

Be a climate action hero

Beautiful Botanical Books

Beautiful butterflies

Become a climate action hero

Beginners Compost Workshop

Behind-the-scenes Nursery tour

Bird Kites

Blooming Caps

Blueprinting leaves and flowers with cyan

Botanic Gardens Week Guided Walk

Botanic Gardens Week yoga on the lawn

Botanical art workshop with Thomas Paster

Botanical Art Worldwide 2025

Botanical papermaking

Botanical Watercolours for Beginners

Bright tropical flowers at the Wintergardens

Brilliant Bokashi

Brilliant bumblebees

Butterfly face mask

Cacti and succulents - Botanical Art Workshop

Cacti and Succulents Workshop - Wintergardens Sunday Art Sessions

Call for Artists - Sculpture in the Gardens

Camellia Garden Drop and Learn

Cancelled: Food Trucks in the Gardens

CANCELLED: Matariki i te Aorangi - 16 June

Carnivorous Plants - Botanical Art Workshop

Celebrate Botanic Gardens Week

Children’s nature photography exhibition

Clay Creations

Clay Day!

Climate action booth

Closing day event for Sculpture in the Gardens

Closing weekend sculpture tour with James Wright

Closing weekend sculpture tour with Karuna Douglas

Companion Gardening with Fungi

Compost Collective workshop

Compost workshop

Composting basics workshop

Composting made easy

Composting Workshop

Conservation and Revegetation Walk and Talk

Conservation in urban spaces

Container gardening and bokashi composting workshop

Create a Corn Husk Doll

Craft time with Toni

Crafty Art with Toni

RESCHEDULED FROM 17th APRIL TO 24TH APRIL

Create a Polish style paper flower

Create a Sustainable City

Create Taonga Puoro (Māori musical instruments)

Creative Photography Workshop

Creative Workshop - Weave: A Thread Connects Us All

Creatures of your garden

Curious Curator: a guided walk

Cyanotype Printing Workshop

Cyanotype workshop for kids

Cyanotype workshop with Elle Anderson

Cyanotype workshop

Discover Nature Through Journaling

Discovery Waka - Leaves, flowers, shapes, and patterns

Discovery Waka - Life in the Soil

Discovery Waka - Sniffari

Discovery Waka - Soil Life

Drop and Learn: Botanical Sculptures

Drop and Learn - Budding and summer grafting your fruit trees

Drop and Learn: Climate Resilience

Drop and Learn: Colour in the Perennial Garden

Drop and Learn: Composting

Drop and Learn: Edible Flowers

Drop and Learn: Fabulous floral arrangements

Drop and Learn - Fabulous Foliage

Drop and Learn: Gondwana Arboretum Walk

Drop and Learn: Grafting workshop

Drop and Learn: Introduction to the Harakeke Collection

Drop and Learn: Leaf Mould Workshop

Drop and Learn: Matariki walk in the Pā Harakeke Collection

Drop and Learn: Myrtle Rust Survey

Drop and Learn: Pā Harakeke garden

Drop and learn: Photographing Plants

Drop and Learn: Plants on trial

Drop and Learn - Pruning and Trimming

Drop and Learn: Roses in Summer

Drop and Learn: Roses

Drop and Learn tour of the African Garden

Drop and Learn - Trials Garden Tour

Drop-In Pottery session

Drop in weaving activity

Drop'n Learn - Fungi exploration with the Mushroom Smith

Easter Holidays - Under 5s Nature Fun

Easter music with accordionist Tracey Collins

Easter music with Bruce French

Easter music with harpist Louise Andrew

Easter music with the Ed Taylor Collective

EcoFest Whaanau Fun Day

EcoPrinting for Adults

Elegant orchids workshop - Wintergardens Sunday Art Sessions

Elegant Tulips - Botanical Art Workshop

Enjoy a guided tour of the Gardens

Erica Soman’s botanical display

EVENT POSTPONED - Artist talk & sculpture walk - Karuna Douglas

Exotic Orchids - Botanical Art Workshop

Explore with our Autumn Activity Sheet

Extreme drought resistance of grass from chloroplast and mitochondrial biology

Eye on Nature Creative Arts 2025

Eye on Nature Creative Arts Exhibition

Eye On Nature Ecofest: 2 April -1 May

Eye On Nature Ecofest - Sunday April 3

Fabulous Flower Pendants

Feather Moa

February Monthly Plant Sale

Field Notes: Exploring Sculptures Together

Field Notes - Exploring the Gardens Together

Find a Story - two sessions: 10am and 11am

Finding, Making and Returning Treasure

Flower Print Art

Folding Fun

Food Truck Collective - A Feast Among the Flowers

Food Truck Collective March Sunday Session

Food Truck Collective

Food Truck Night at Auckland Botanic Gardens - CANCELLED

Food Trucks music with the Ed Taylor Collective

Forest Accordion Book

Forest Bathing

Free artist guided walk - 17 November

Free guided seasonal walk - November 12th

Free guided seasonal walk - November 21st

Free Guided Walk - January 15

Free Guided Walk - January 22

Free Nature Photography Workshop (Ages 14+)

Friends of Auckland Botanic Gardens, Artist in Residence Programme

Frosty Foliage Art with Agata

Fruit Tree Pruning - Drop and Learn workshop

Fruitful Legacies: Heritage Orchards of Auckland

Garden Pests - Drop and Learn

Geli Plate and Lino Workshop

Gelli Print Workshop

Get a free juice when you take the Climate Action Trail

Get crafty with Toni

Getting the best from your Container Garden

Grassy Brooches

Grounded Mindfulness CANCELLED

Cancelled

Growing microgreens at home

Growing Communities exhibition

Growing Friends Plant Sale (NO SALE ANZAC DAY 25TH APRIL)

Growing Friends Plant Sale

Growing Friends Plant Sales

Guardians of the Garden

Guided Gardens walk: free seasonal walk of the Gardens

Guided Grassy Gathering February

Guided Grassy Gathering January

Guided tour of the Gardens

Guided walk in the Pā Harakeke Collection

Guided walk of Threatened Native Plants Garden

Guided Walking Meditation

Harakeke collection guided walk

Harakeke exhibition event - dying muka

Hari Huritau Māmā

Help grow Auckland’s forest canopy

Hidden Secrets - an exhibition of botanical artwork

Hydrangea Pruning Workshop

Hydrangea Pruning

Incredible Edible Flowers

Insect postcards

Introduction to Food Forest Design

January Monthly Plant Sale

Junk play – loose parts fun

Kid’s clay activity

Kids Clay Creations

Kids Craft Activity: Collage Making

Kids Lavender Bag

Kids Music in Parks - Auckland Botanic Gardens

Kids Nature Weaving with Foliage

Kiekie Preparation for Weavers

Kupenga workshop

Lavender Bags

Leaf art and words workshop

Leaf art for kids

Leaf It Behind: Art and Words in Nature

Leaf Mould Workshop

Leaf Rubbing Cards

Leaf Tapestry

Learn about bumblebees

Learn To Draw Bright Citrus - Botanical Art Workshop

Learn To Draw Elegant Orchids - Botanical Art Workshop

Learn To Draw Glorious Roses - Botanical Art Workshop

Learn To Draw Lush Tulips - Botanical Art Workshop

Learn To Draw Tropical Flowers - Botanical Art Workshop

Learn To DrawWinter Veges - Botanical Art Workshop

Learn To Sweet Pansies And Violas - Botanical Art Workshop

Letterpress Printing workshop

Little Bats, Big Stories: A Matariki Activity

Little leaf art

Live Easter music: Bruce French

Live music for Easter with Bruce French

Live music for the Food Trucks: CANCELLED

Live music: the Ed Taylor Collective

Live music with Bruce French

Live music with The Curls

Live music with the Ed Taylor Collective

Live summer music with the Ed Taylor Collective

Living in the sky

Living Roof exhibition

Love Letters Botanica

Luscious glass leaf workshop

Luscious leaf glass workshop

Luscious tulips workshop - Wintergardens Sunday Art Sessions

Macro photography with Manukau Photography Society

Make a Morepork Origami

Make a paper flower bouquet

Make a Paper Mosaic

Make a planter tube

Make a winter reading bookmark

Make Eco Art Materials With Wild Studio

Make your own 3D insect

Make your own clay leaf

Make your own clay mushroom

Make your own embroidered flower brooch

Make your own flower trading card

Make Your Own Grass Friend

Make your own Paper Flower

Make your own seed packets from our buzzy Summer Garden

Make your own spring blossom tree

Make your own Yarn Stick

March Monthly Plant Sale

Matariki drop-in clay activity for tamariki

Matariki i te Aorangi - 22 June

Matariki i te Aorangi - 24 June

May Monthly Plant Sale

Meet artist Ashley Peevor, creator of living costumes

Meet creator of Grassman, artist Ashley Peevor

Meet the Gardener April 16 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener April 30 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener August 13 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener August 27 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener Dec 04 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener Dec 18 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener Edible Edition: 18th February

Meet the Gardener Edible Edition: 18th March

Meet the Gardener Edible Edition: 20th May

Meet the Gardener Edible Edition: 22 April

Meet the Gardener Edible Edition: 4th February

Meet the Gardener Edible Edition: 4th March

Meet the Gardener Edible Edition: 6th May

Meet the Gardener Feb 12 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener Feb 26 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener July 02 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener July 16 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener July 30 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener June 18 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener March 12 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener March 26 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener May 21 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener Nov 06 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener Nov 20 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener November 5 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener Oct 23 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener October 22 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener October 8 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Meet the Gardener September 24 - Join Angela in our Edibles Garden

Microgreens (pea sprouts)

Mini Planter Workshop

Mobile Library visit December 31

Mobile Library visit January 14

Mobile Library visit January 29

Mobile Library visit January 7

Monarch Butterfly release at Auckland Botanic Gardens

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - April

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - December

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - February

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - January

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - March

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - May

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - November

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - October

Monthly Sunday Plant Sales - September

Mushroom & Fungi Walk

Mushroom Mug - kids' pottery workshop

Mushrooms and Other Fungi

Music from the Ed Taylor Collective

Opera in the Gardens

Music on the Huakaiwaka terrace

Music on the terrace with the Ed Taylor Collective

Music with Bruce French: Sculpture closing weekend

Native pollinator display

Natural history of New Zealand flowers

Nature for Wellbeing audio experience

Nature journal your winter walk - a family drop-in activity

Nature journaling for adults workshop

Nature Journaling - Let's Look at Grasses

Nature Journaling Workshop

Nature Photography for beginners

Nature’s Pharmacy: Exploring Medicinal Plants of Autumn

Nature’s Pharmacy: Exploring Medicinal Plants of spring

Nature’s Pharmacy: Exploring Medicinal Plants of summer

Nature weaving

Ngāti Tamaoho Matariki Weaving Exhibition

No mow and low mow workshop

October Monthly Plant Sale

Opera in the Park at Auckland Botanic Gardens

Otherworldly worlds - School Holiday Creative Workshop

Pā Harakeke cleaning day

Paint a Leaf - Botanical Watercolours for Beginners

Painting a Leaf - Botanical Watercolours for Beginners

Painting Clothing Workshop

Palm and Cycad Society plant sale

Paper collage workshop

Paper Marbling Workshop

Paper Mosaic /or Collage

Paper Plant Pots and seeds

Paper Sculptures

Perfect pickled veges

Pest control Drop and Learn

Pest Plants Drop and learn

Pest plants workshop

Pinch Pot Pottery Workshops

Plant a tree like a pro

Plant more natives: seedling giveaway

Plaster mould making

Play Truck at the Gardens 6 April

'Play Wild' book launch and craft activities

Playing with textures

Polysol Dye and Lino Workshop

Polysol Dye & Lino Workshop

Pop-up printing

Powerful perennials - seasonal walk

Prepare Your Edible Garden for a Successful Summer Harvest

Press Moulding/Ceramic Fruit

Protect your backyard birdsong

Protect your backyard birdsong this Matariki

Protect your backyard birdsong

Public talk: Te korowai o Papatuanuku – the Cloak of the Earth Mother

Red Hot Chili Peppers Workshop at the Wintergardens

Right Plant, Right Place: Native Edition

Rose Pruning Drop and Learn

Sculpture in the Gardens 2024/25

Seasonal Changes & Bed Preparation

Seasonal stroll of the gardens

Seasonal stroll: winter edition

Secret Gardens drawing

Secret life of plant production: A behind the scenes tour of our nursery

Self-guided tours around the Gardens

Sensory Activity with Soft Pastels.

Sensory nature play in the garden

Shelf Life - exhibition

Silent Disco Kids Adventure

Silent disco kids adventures

Sniffari: a sensory experience for young and old

Sniffari Drop and Learn

Spring Daffodils workshop - SOLD OUT

Spring into Summer

Steel 'n Beats performance

Story Book Flower Craft

Subtropical tour of Palm Garden

Summer Border Workshop at the Wintergardens

Summer music: harpist Louise Andrew

Summer music: Tracey Collins duo Accordion and Violin

Summer music with Bruce French and his saxaphone

Summer music with the City of Auckland Singers

Summer music with The Curls

Summer saxophone with Bruce French

Summer sounds with Mitch French

Sunday music at the Huakaiwaka visitor centre

Sunday music with Mitch French

Sunflower Sketching

Sweet pansies- Botanical Art Workshop

Take a guided tour of the Gardens

Take a walk on the grassy side

Tales under the tree

Tales under the trees

Talk by artist-in-residence Neal Palmer

Tangled Roots: How Grasses Shaped Our World

'Tangled Roots' Launch Event

Kids Craft Activity: Tangled Roots Pendants

Tātai Whakapapa – Matariki

Tāwhiti kiore / traditional trapping wānanga

Te Hui Ahurei o Matariki – Matariki Festival Day

Te Hui Ahurei o Matariki

Tea for Harmony Yaji Cultural Salon

Teen Pottery Workshop

The Gardens through our Eyes Photo Competition 2025

The Gardens through our Eyes Photo Competition

The Gardens through Our Eyes

The Story of Our World of Rubbish

The Winter Vege Garden workshop - Wintergardens Sunday Art Sessions

Theatre installation - What She Burned

Thomas Paster - Friends Visiting Artist

Tiny Terrariums for Kids

Tool sharpening basics for secateurs and spades

Towards Predator Free 2050

Tree Benefits Workshop

Tree Crops annual plant, produce and craft sale

Tropical Flowers - Botanical Art Workshop

Tropical Leaves - Botanical Art Workshop

Tunes on the terrace from the Ed Taylor Collective

Uku/Clay Session with Nga Kaihanga Uku

Unfolding Ideas – Introduction to simple folded structures

Visit the climate action booth

Walk2Remember

Walking with Dinosaurs: explore the trees that dinosaurs walked among

Watercolor and Crayon Autumn Trees

Watercolour blossoms

Watercolour on Vellum

Watercolour onto Vellum

Weave your own Christmas wreath

Weave your own putiputi (flowers)

Weekend music at the Huakaiwaka visitor centre

Wings of Wonder: create & explore birds of the gardens

Winter to Spring

Winter tree in watercolour pencil

Woodturning exhibition

Workshop - make a luscious glass leaf

WRAP: A Mindful Stones Adventure

Wriggle and Rhyme - Summer Fun

Wriggle and Rhyme

Wriggle & Rhyme outdoors 2022

Yoga on the Botanic Gardens' lawn

Yoga on the grass with Hela

Yoga on the grass

Yoga on the lawn

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