Join us tomorrow (Sunday 31 July) for our latest pop-up Plant Sale. This one will take place on the lower lawns of the Botanical Gardens from 1pm till at least 3pm.

Join us on Tuesday (26th July) for our regular pair of events - a talk on the gardening charity Perennial at 10.30am in the Dorothy Fox Centre, followed by a public tour of the Gardens at 1pm, starting from the Thompson Road gates.

The latest edition of our newsletter is now available to view in the Friends Area of the website. Learn about our new chair, Carolyn Clark, the latest news from the charitable Trust and from our education co-ordinator Laura, plus gardens to visit in Northamptonshire, membership news, a request for volunteer help and an offer of discounted tickets for some special online lectures.

Thanks to Gill and Gayle at the splendid Morton Nursery for hosting a visit by Friends this afternoon (13 July). Glorious sunshine, a guided tour of the inspirational planting, tea and cake, and then a chance to do some serious plant shopping!

The ‘Jungle Garden’ of one of our members is open this summer by appointment under the National Garden Scheme. Many of us enjoyed the Zoom talk that Simon Olpin gave us last year (still available to view in the Friends Area of the website) about the development of his exotic plot. Now you can tour the garden in person with Simon as your knowledgeable guide - and enjoy some tea and delicious home-made cake at the end of the tour.

Our next pop-up Plant Sale will be in the morning of Sunday 10th July on the lower lawns of the Botanical Gardens. Join us from 10.30 to browse a mixture of familiar plants and some very unusual ones, all grown by our volunteers in peat-free compost and offered at reasonable prices.

It’s not too late to sign up for our Friends trip next week to the splendid Morton Nursery in Nottinghamshire, which specialises in home-grown, hard-to-find shrubs and perennials. We’ll be there in the afternoon of Wednesday 13 July, for a talk about the nursery, tea & cake and some serious plant shopping!

We’re delighted to welcome Carolyn Clark as the new Chair of the Friends of the Botanical Gardens. Carolyn was formally voted in by members at today’s meeting (28 June). She takes over from Acting Chair Peter Kohn, who was warmly thanked by our President Sue Kohler for stepping in over the last 8 months.

Join us tomorrow (28 June) for a talk on garden pests, a public tour of the Gardens with a focus on early summer flowers, and the election of a new chair for the Friends!

Our next pop-up Plant Sale will be on Sunday 19th June from 1pm at 75 Dalewood Avenue in Beauchief (S8 0EG). Some familiar plants for sale as well as some very unusual ones, all grown by our volunteers in peat-free compost and offered at reasonable prices.

Many thanks to local crime author Russ Thomas who joined us for a splendid session last night (13 June). We heard readings from two of his Sheffield-based novels and talked about why he chose the Botanical Gardens as the setting for his best-selling murder-mystery NightHawking.

It was great to welcome two groups to the Gardens for our Earthshot tours, run as part of the Broomhill Festival. If you missed the in-person events, you can still follow the tour digitally at https://sbg.gardenexplorer.org/tour.aspx and learn about environmentally friendly practices and activities in the Gardens.

Join us on Monday 13th June for lunchtime walks and an evening talk. We’re running two public tours as part of the Broomhill Festival, looking at activities and practices inspired by the Earthshot goals, and then An Evening With Russ Thomas, whose last novel involved a body buried in the Botanical Gardens!

Do you know a Sorbus from a Sorbaria? Or a Fagus from a Ficus? And are you passionate about plants? Sheffield Botanical Gardens has recently transferred its plant records onto a new system, IrisBG, and is now looking for a plant records officer to take on the exciting challenge of maintaining the records of the collection of over 4000 different taxa.

We’re holding one of our pop-up plant sales on Sunday 29th May from 1pm on the lower lawns of the Botanical Gardens. Everyone is welcome!