Our Christmas card for 2023 is now available. Thanks to Stephen Coates for supplying this year’s image of ‘Winter in the Gardens.’

We regret that due to illness Linda Heywood is unable to deliver her ‘In the Land of the Giants’ talk on echium which was scheduled for Monday 9 October and our meeting has been CANCELLED.

The Friends have been awarded a prestigious platinum award in this year’s Yorkshire in Bloom competition. The award, in the Parks, Gardens, Cemeteries & Public Buildings category, is the highest available.

A partial recording of Darren Myers’ talk on sowing and growing sweet peas is now available in the password-protected area of the Friends website

It’s our final plant sale for the year - your last chance this season to buy beautiful plants propagated in the Gardens.

Come along to this free exhibition about celebrated garden designer Robert Marnock. The exhibition explores the life and times of this incredibly important and prolific gardener and how his influence continues today.

We’ve just published the latest version of our Friends newsletter.

The first part of the talk by Laura Alston and Jill Sinclair on this summer’s celebrations of our first curator Robert Marnock is now available to view. You’ll find the recording in the password-protected Friends Area of the website.

UPDATE - we have had to cancel our 'Painting with Flowers' tour, planned for next Wednesday as Sheffield Botanical Gardens are CLOSED to the public for Art in the Gardens.

Join us on Saturday 29 July from 11-1pm on the Lower Lawns in Sheffield Botanical Gardens for our Pop up Plant Sale……

Jill Sinclair and Laura Alston will explore the life and career of Scottish landscape gardener, horticulturalist and writer Robert Marnock (1800 - 1889) as well as some of the unusual and engaging events that have been happening around the country as part of this summer’s Marnock Celebrations.

The Gardens have been at the heart of the Celebrating Marnock festival this summer. Last weekend saw four tours of the Gardens, looking at plants that were used by Marnock. There was also a talk by Marnock expert Dr Jan Woudstra, workshops on Victorian flower arranging and a pocket Pollen Market.

We’ve commissioned a pair of benches for the Gardens, inspired by a Victorian engraving. One will commemorate our former Chair, Jill Thompson, and be inscribed ‘Jill’s Seat.’

We’re delighted to be welcoming local business Joni to run the café in the Botanical Gardens. After a quiet trial opening today (8 June), it will be officially open for business from tomorrow!

We’ve just published the latest version of our Friends newsletter.