24th October 2017 By Colin Smith

Christmas Shopping

The Ventnor Botanic Garden is hosting this special event for Members of the Friends and Annual Pass Holders.

The event will begin at 6 pm in the Plantation Room Café with mulled wine, mulled ale and nibbles and time to browse the Shop. At 6:30 guests will be a welcomed by Chris Kidd who will make a presentation on the Garden followed by time to shop until 8 pm.

There is a discount of 10% Members of the Friends’ or 20% for those who are Annual Pass Holders.

A Forum to share experiences

The Friends of Botanic Gardens Forum (FBGF) of which VBGFS is a member, was set up in September 2019 to encourage information exchange between Friends groups around the UK.

Although the groups operate within different financial and management structures, there is much to be gained by sharing experiences and ideas for activities and fund-raising, and much else.

If you enjoy reading about gardens and looking at lovely pictures, and are interested in what is happening at Botanic Gardens around the country, then head to their website https://fbgf.org to see the Gallery and read the Newsletters.

Rosemary Stewart was our representative from the beginning but relinquished the role to Val Pitts in 2022. In their Summer 2022 newsletter, Rosemary writes her valedictory article about how she became involved at Ventnor. She made a number of other interesting contributions to earlier editions, including one about the hopyard in November 2020. As you can imagine with Rosemary, all are well worth reading.

You can read Rosemary’s article here.

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