Events

We organise a variety of events, such as lectures, workshops, field outings, garden visits, plant sales and open days. 

All events are held at Treborth Botanic Garden unless specified otherwise.

Ventures to the Arctic for Plants & Animals - a talk by Dr Peter Evans
Jan
13

Ventures to the Arctic for Plants & Animals - a talk by Dr Peter Evans

This is a Donation event.

Dr Peter Evans is Honorary Professor in the School of Ocean Sciences at Bangor University. He is also the director and founder of the Sea Watch Foundation, a pioneering “citizen science” organization that educates, informs and advises for better protection for marine mammals. Peter was listed by BBC Wildlife Magazine as one of the 50 most influential conservation heroes.  

A frequent visitor to polar regions, Peter has developed a special interest in arctic alpine plants. He has recently travelled to places such as Svalbard and Northern Norway to see them in the wild. Being a keen photographer, Peter has some great photos of the plants he's seen, and the wildlife, too, of course. 

Please go to our website: www.friendsoftreborthbotanicgarden.org/donate to make a donation (£5 suggested). We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

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Christmas Flower Bauble Workshop
Dec
8

Christmas Flower Bauble Workshop

Christmas flower bauble workshop with Anna from Branch & Brush Studios.

Sunday 8th December 10am-12pm at Treborth Botanic Garden.

Create a selection of beautiful glass baubles, decorated with pressed flowers from Anna's personal collection and filled with a choice of locally grown dried flowers and Christmassy scents.

Take your flower baubles home to hang on the tree or gift to friends and family for a lovely handmade Christmas. 

Expect to make two or three baubles each, during a morning of flowery festive fun! Hot drinks and mince pies included. 

Booking is essential as numbers are limited. Cost £30 plus Eventbrite booking fee.

Please book via Eventbrite: Christmas Flower Bauble Workshop

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Christmas Wreath Workshops at Treborth Botanic Garden
Dec
7

Christmas Wreath Workshops at Treborth Botanic Garden

Get in the festive spirit and make a Christmas wreath from natural, locally sourced materials. Festive cakes and hot drinks will be included.

£15 plus booking fee for members (use Contact Us above to ask for discount code); £20 for non-members plus booking fee.

Booking is essential as numbers will be limited. 

Please book via Eventbrite: Christmas Wreath Workshop

Saturday 7th December: 10am - 12pm

Saturday 7th December: 2pm - 4pm

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Botanical Watercolour classes £15 per session (£10 for students)
Dec
7

Botanical Watercolour classes £15 per session (£10 for students)

Join resident artist Doreen Weaver who will guide and support you through the process of drawing and painting the captivating structures of all plants: flowers, leaves, fruits or vegetables. Learn at your own pace in an inspiring and supportive environment.

The sessions are held fortnightly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.

Suitable for all levels, beginners welcome (no under 16s).

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.  Materials can be provided for beginners.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL email:  doreensbotanicals@gmail.com or call 07508 728418 for a space.

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Annual Members Meeting and Gardeners’ Question Time
Nov
19

Annual Members Meeting and Gardeners’ Question Time

The AMM will be in the Lab at Treborth but it will also be available to members online if you want to join from home.

This is a Free Event.

The first part of the meeting will be comprised of reports from the trustees and updates from the Garden team.

After a break for refreshments our Treborth experts will be ready to answer your gardening questions!

The number of people in the Lab is limited to 30 and therefore, if you wish to come, please email Simon at friendsoftreborthbotanicgarden@outlook.com to book, or let us know if you want to join online and we will send you the link.

If you have a gardening question, then please include that in your mail.

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Alpine Garden Society meeting with talk at Treborth Botanic Garden
Nov
9

Alpine Garden Society meeting with talk at Treborth Botanic Garden

£2 entry at the door (includes raffle ticket).

The AGS welcome FTBG members to their meetings at Treborth.

This month’s talk is by David Charlton whose talk is entitled ‘Flowers of the Pyrenees’.

David has led alpine flower holidays for Colletts and has co-authored pictorial guides to mountain flowers of several regions including the Pyrenees.

Doors open at 1.45 pm.

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Talk by Sean Adcock about traditional dry stone walls
Nov
8

Talk by Sean Adcock about traditional dry stone walls

This is a Donation Event.

The title of this talk is: “Spot the Difference: Patterns, Peculiarities and Possibilities”

Sean is a Master Craftsman dry stone waller and has written extensively on the subject and lectured world-wide. We have several examples of his wonderful work at Treborth – at the wildlife pond, the new Welsh medicinal garden and the Size of Wales garden.

Sean says the talk is “A look at the variety of dry stonework that can be found across the UK with particular reference to North Welsh examples. From random to coursed, holey and single. Herringbone or vertical, cloddiau, flags and crawiau. Sheepfolds, bridges and barns. Consumption walls, and slate quarries. You name it - if it’s built without mortar, this talk looks at it.”

Please go to our website: www.friendsoftreborthbotanicgarden.org/donate to make a donation (£5 suggested). We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

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Botanical Watercolour classes £15 per session (£10 for students)
Oct
19

Botanical Watercolour classes £15 per session (£10 for students)

Join resident artist Doreen Weaver who will guide and support you through the process of drawing and painting the captivating structures of all plants: flowers, leaves, fruits or vegetables. Learn at your own pace in an inspiring and supportive environment.

The sessions are held fortnightly on the 1st and 3rd Saturday of each month.

Suitable for all levels, beginners welcome (no under 16s).

Tea, coffee and biscuits are provided.  Materials can be provided for beginners.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL email:  doreensbotanicals@gmail.com or call 07508 728418 for a space.

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Guided Moss Walk with Sue Grahame at Treborth Botanic Garden          (£10/£15 plus Eventbrite booking fee)
Oct
12

Guided Moss Walk with Sue Grahame at Treborth Botanic Garden (£10/£15 plus Eventbrite booking fee)

The Garden has created a moss trail (the Mosses and Liverworts of Treborth) and this will be an opportunity to be guided around the trail with FTBG member and bryologist Sue Grahame. The walk will be followed by an opportunity to have a look at bryophytes under the microscopes in the Lab.

Coffee/Tea and biscuits will be served. 

£10 plus booking fee for members (use Contact Us above to ask for discount code); £15 for non-members plus booking fee.

Booking is essential as numbers will be limited.

Please book via Eventbrite:  Guided Moss walk

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Fungus Foray
Sept
28

Fungus Foray

This is a Donation Event.

The colours, shapes and stories of fungi give us endless fascination. Come and look for them at Treborth!

We are delighted to welcome expert, Charles Aron, back to Treborth for our annual fungus foray. It’s a highlight of our calendar and, with over 400 species at Treborth, it’s a brilliant opportunity for all the family to learn more about this amazing hidden world.

Refreshments for sale.

No booking required. Please arrive on time and meet outside the main building.

Donations welcome (£5 suggested for adults - click on Donate above). We will also take donations, preferably by card, on the day.

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North Wales Alpine Garden Society Field Meeting to Tan Dinas Quarry
Aug
24

North Wales Alpine Garden Society Field Meeting to Tan Dinas Quarry

Dr Richard Birch (Botanist & Geologist) will lead a North Wales Alpine Garden Society field meeting at Tan Dinas Quarry on Anglesey.

Friends of Treborth Garden are cordially invited.

Donations are welcomed in cash on the day. A minimum of £2 is suggested.

Tan Dinas is a limestone quarry on the east side of Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey, designated as a SSSI for its Carboniferous limestone stratigraphy

Join Dr Richard Birch on a walk along the coastal footpath to this disused quarry to see remarkable coastal views, fascinating geology and several plants otherwise very rare on Anglesey.

Parking is limited and the walk is fairly arduous. The map shows parking for 5 cars near the walk start.

If no parking spaces are available please park in Llanddona at the school (Ysgol Hên). Lifts will be given to the walk start from 9.45 am.

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Draig Beats Festival
Jun
8

Draig Beats Festival

Draig Beats Festival in Treborth Botanic Gardens

Contact: whisper@draigbeats.wales

Draig Beats is a family friendly, fundraising event, that continues to enhance links between the University and local communities.

There will be plenty of live music, talks, workshops, food and drink, showcasing local initiatives and lots of activities to keep the kids busy!

The event is organised to fundraise for and support Dr Sophie Williams, an honorary lecturer at the School of Natural Sciences, who contracted Japanese encephalitis while on fieldwork in China in 2015, as well as the volunteering group Friends of Treborth Botanic Garden.

If you would like to volunteer at the festival click here for roles.

Full details of the event are available on the Draig Beats ticket page and social media.

Gŵyl Draig Beats yng Ngardd Fotaneg Treborth

Cyswllt: whisper@draigbeats.wales

Bydd digonedd o gerddoriaeth fyw, sgyrsiau, gweithdai, bwyd a diod, gan arddangos mentrau lleol a llawer o weithgareddau i gadw'r plant yn brysur!

Mae'r digwyddiad yn cael ei drefnu i godi arian a chefnogi Dr Sophie Williams, darlithydd er anrhydedd yn yr Ysgol Gwyddorau Naturiol, a gontractiodd lid yr ymennydd Japaneaidd tra oedd hi ar waith maes yn Tsieina yn 2015, a’r grŵp gwirfoddoli, Ffrindiau Gardd Fotaneg Treborth.


Os hoffech wirfoddoli yn yr ŵyl cliciwch yma am rolau.

Cewch fanylion llawn am y digwyddiad ar tudalen tocyn a’u Cyfryngau cymdeithasol.

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Spring Plant Sale
May
25

Spring Plant Sale

Treborth Botanic Garden      

All plants are grown by members of the Friends of Treborth and by Treborth Botanic Garden horticulturalists. We will have a wide selection of plants available, which will include vegetable seedlings, annuals and perennials, carnivorous plants, cacti and succulents, house plants, trees and shrubs, and more! We will also be selling a variety of refreshments, and cakes, jams and chutneys. 

A selection of talented local businesses will also be hosting their own stalls selling hand crafted and local produce. 

We can take contactless payments and cash. Free parking. 

Members of the Friends of Treborth Botanic Garden have a private sale hour from 10.00 to 11.00. 

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Guided walk to Wylfa Head, Anglesey
May
5

Guided walk to Wylfa Head, Anglesey

Nigel Brown will take us on a walk to this lesser known corner of Anglesey, to see coastal birds, spring flowers and dramatic geology. 

We shall explore the coastal grassland and heathland of Wylfa Head, a notable SSSI for such maritime highlights as spring squill and choughs. The Precambrian geology is dramatically varied. Wheatears and other summer migrants frequent the headland and gannets will be fishing near their newly established colony at Middle Mouse. 

Meet at 10.30 in the car park at SH356.938 situated at the end of the lane signposted Wylfa Power Station which leads north from the A5025 at Penlon between Tregele and Cemaes. Bear right before the entrance to the Nuclear Power Station and continue for nearly a kilometre down the narrower lane to the car park.  

Please bring a packed lunch and suitable clothing for a coastal walk. Walking boots recommended, terrain moderate. Binoculars are also recommended. Please note that there are no toilet facilities at this site. Finish mid-afternoon.  

This is a donation event (£5 recommended). We will also take payment by card (preferred) or cash on the day. 

Limited places - maximum 25 people. Please book via Eventbrite. Wylfa Head walk 

This will be a popular event and we expect there to be a waiting list. So, if you find you cannot come after booking, please cancel your booking via Eventbrite, so that your place can go to someone else. 

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Cholmondeley Castle Gardens Visit and Spring Plant Hunters Fair
Apr
28

Cholmondeley Castle Gardens Visit and Spring Plant Hunters Fair

Early spring coach trip to the spring plant fair at the delightful Cholmondeley Castle Gardens in Cheshire. This will be an ideal opportunity to pick up spring plants and bulbs or anything else that takes your fancy from a diverse and exotic range of items. Also, you will have time to explore the delightful Gardens that includes a lakeside walk, temple and folly gardens, laburnum grove and their famous Lavinia Walk with spring highlights: eremurus, delphiniums and tree peonies. The bluebells should also be nearing their prime at this time of year. 

The cost is £22 plus Eventbrite booking fee and is for the return coach trip only; there will be a separate £5 entrance fee for the Gardens. Once you have booked we will contact you to arrange your pick-up (choice of Caernarfon (Morrisons), Llanfairpwll Park and Ride, and Colwyn Bay (if required)). 

Please book via Eventbrite:  Cholmondeley Castle Gardens 

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Early Spring Plant Sale
Apr
20

Early Spring Plant Sale

Treborth Botanic Garden   

All plants are grown by members of the Friends of Treborth and by Treborth Botanic Garden horticulturalists. We will have a wide selection of plants available, which will include vegetable seedlings, annuals and perennials, carnivorous plants, cacti and succulents, house plants, trees and shrubs, and more! We will also be selling a variety of refreshments, and cakes, jams and chutneys. 

A selection of talented local businesses will also be hosting their own stalls selling hand crafted and local produce. 

We can take contactless payments and cash. Free parking. 

Members of the Friends of Treborth Botanic Garden have a private sale hour from 10.00 to 11.00. 

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Len Beer Memorial Lecture – In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, a Plantperson’s Paradise
Apr
15

Len Beer Memorial Lecture – In the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, a Plantperson’s Paradise

Eric Sutherland Lecture Theatre, Main Arts Building, Bangor University  

This year’s speaker is Martin Walsh who is an Irish garden designer and consultant and a modern-day plant hunter, who lives and works in Dublin. Since his early teenage years, he has had a love of all types of plants with a particular interest in perennials, bulbs and Irish wildflowers. One of his great passions in life is observing plants growing in their native habitats, whether in his own back yard or in exotic parts of the world.  

We would appreciate a donation for this event which can be made here, or in cash on the night. 

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Homemade Botanical Soapmaking Workshop / Gweithdy Gwneud Sebon Botanegol Cartref
Mar
9

Homemade Botanical Soapmaking Workshop / Gweithdy Gwneud Sebon Botanegol Cartref

An opportunity to learn how to make natural, gentle soaps using the traditional cold-process method used for thousands of years.

Create natural olive-oil based soaps from scratch using ingredients found in your store cupboard and essential oils and botanicals inspired by Treborth Botanic Garden.

Age 16+. Wear suitable clothing in case of spillages.

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Dydd Sadwrn, 9 Mawrth 2024 10:00 - 13:00

Cyfle i ddysgu sut i wneud sebon naturiol, ysgafn gan ddefnyddio'r broses oer draddodiadol sydd wedi ei defnyddio ers miloedd o flynyddoedd.

Cewch greu sebonau olew olewydd naturiol yn defnyddio cynhwysion a geir yng nghypyrddau’r gegin ac olewau hanfodol a botanegion wedi’u hysbrydoli gan Ardd Fotaneg Treborth.

Oedran 16+ Gwisgwch ddillad addas rhag ofn i chi eu baeddu.

Archebu tocynnau

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Guided Moss Walk
Feb
24

Guided Moss Walk

Treborth Botanic Garden

The garden has created a moss trail (the Mosses and Liverworts of Treborth) to celebrate the Centenary year of the British Bryological Society (BBS) and this will be an opportunity to be guided around the trail with FTBG member and bryologist Sue Grahame. The walk will be followed by an opportunity to have a look at bryophytes under the microscopes in the Lab; refreshments will be served. 

£5 plus booking fee. Booking is essential as numbers will be limited. 

Please book via Eventbrite:  Guided Moss walk 

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Film night with Dr Richard Birch / Noson ffilm gyda Dr Richard Birch
Feb
21

Film night with Dr Richard Birch / Noson ffilm gyda Dr Richard Birch

Richard will be showing two of his films. The first is entitled 'Crete... in early spring' (a botanical journey), and will include some of Richard’s wonderful and inspiring photographs.

The second film is intended as a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics education in schools) project and is called: ‘Tomorrow Story' (A Natural History... with zombies). This intriguing film has been created by Richard to appeal to 8-11 year olds (and older) as part of an ecology and climate change presentation. Richard wants our views on this, so be ready to give feedback!

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Online talk by Sue Clarke "Margery Fish" / Sgwrs ar-lein gan Sue Clarke “Margery Fish”      
Jan
15

Online talk by Sue Clarke "Margery Fish" / Sgwrs ar-lein gan Sue Clarke “Margery Fish”      

Sue is the vice-chair of the Cottage Garden Society, and a national collection holder of various hardy geraniums, having been growing these cottage garden essentials for 25 years. She will be talking about Margery Fish, who was a pioneering gardener and garden writer of the cottage garden style of the mid-20th century. Since her death in 1969, her own garden, East Lambrook Manor in Somerset, has been awarded Grade I listed status and, against the odds, remains open to the public.

To book, please email: treborthevents@outlook.com and the Zoom link will be sent to you.

This is a free event but donations are welcome.

Photo: Valerie Finnis / RHS Lindley Collections © Royal Horticultural Society


Dydd Llun 15 Ionawr 2024 19:00 - 21:00

Mae Sue yn is-gadeirydd y Cottage Garden Society, ac yn ddeiliad casgliad cenedlaethol o amrywiol fynawyd y bugail gwydn, ac wedi bod yn tyfu’r blodau hyn ers 25 mlynedd. Bydd hi’n sôn am Margery Fish, a oedd yn arddwr ac yn awdur arloesol am arddull gerddi bwthyn yng nghanol yr 20fed ganrif. Ers ei marwolaeth ym 1969, mae ei gardd ei hun, East Lambrook Manor yng Ngwlad yr Haf, wedi ennill statws rhestredig Gradd I ac mae’n parhau i fod ar agor i’r cyhoedd.

Anfonwch e-bost i treborthevents@outlook.com i archebu a byddwn yn anfon y ddolen Zoom atoch.

Mae hwn yn ddigwyddiad rhad ac am ddim ond croesewir rhoddion.

Llun: Valerie Finnis / RHS Lindley Collections © Royal Horticultural Society

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Christmas Wreath Workshops at Treborth Botanic Garden / Gweithdai Torch Nadolig yng Ngardd Fotaneg Treborth  
Dec
1
to 2 Dec

Christmas Wreath Workshops at Treborth Botanic Garden / Gweithdai Torch Nadolig yng Ngardd Fotaneg Treborth  

Get in the festive spirit and make a Christmas wreath from local, naturally sourced materials. Festive cakes and hot drinks will be included.

£15 for members of the Friends; £20 for non members. Plus booking fee. Please book via eventbrite.

Friday 1st December: 4pm - 6pm

Saturday 2nd December: 10am - 12pm

Saturday 2nd December: 2pm - 4pm


Beth am fynd i ysbryd yr ŵyl a gwneud torch Nadolig gyda deunyddiau lleol, naturiol. Bydd teisennau Nadoligaidd a diodydd poeth ar gael.

£15 i aelodau'r Cyfeillion; £20 i rai nad ydynt yn aelodau. Gyda thâl archebu’n ychwanegol. Archebwch trwy eventbrite;

dydd Gwener 1 Rhagfyr 4pm - 6pm

dydd Sadwrn 2 Rhagfyr 10am - 12pm

dydd Sadwrn 2 Rhagfyr 2pm - 4pm

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Annual Members Meeting / Cyfarfod Blynyddol i Aelodau
Nov
14

Annual Members Meeting / Cyfarfod Blynyddol i Aelodau

The AMM will be in the Lab at Treborth but it will also be available to members online if you want to join at home. The meeting will be comprised of reports from the trustees and updates from the garden team. Refreshments will be available on the night.

The number of people in the lab are limited to 30 and therefore if you wish to come please email treborthevents@outlook.com to book, or let us know if you want to join online and we will send you the link


Nos Fawrth, 14 Tachwedd 2023

Cynhelir y cyfarfod blynyddol i aelodau yn y labordy yn Nhreborth ond bydd hefyd ar gael ar-lein i aelodau os ydynt eisiau ymuno o adref. Bydd y cyfarfod yn cynnwys adroddiadau gan yr ymddiriedolwyr a diweddariadau gan dîm yr ardd. Bydd paned ar gael ar y noson.

Mae nifer y bobl yn y labordy wedi ei gyfyngu i 30 ac felly os hoffech ddod, anfonwch e-bost i treborthevents@outlook.com i archebu, neu rhowch wybod i ni os ydych eisiau ymuno ar-lein a byddwn yn anfon y ddolen atoch.

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Homemade Botanical Soapmaking Workshop / Gweithdy Gwneud Sebon Botanegol Cartref
Nov
11

Homemade Botanical Soapmaking Workshop / Gweithdy Gwneud Sebon Botanegol Cartref

An opportunity to learn how to make natural, gentle soaps using the traditional cold-process method used for thousands of years.

Create natural olive-oil based soaps from scratch using ingredients found in your store cupboard and essential oils and botanicals inspired by Treborth Botanic Garden.

Age 16+. Wear suitable clothing in case of spillages.

Fully Booked


Dydd Sadwrn, 11 Tachwedd 2023 10:00 - 13:00

Cyfle i ddysgu sut i wneud sebon naturiol, ysgafn gan ddefnyddio'r broses oer draddodiadol sydd wedi ei defnyddio ers miloedd o flynyddoedd.

Cewch greu sebonau olew olewydd naturiol yn defnyddio cynhwysion a geir yng nghypyrddau’r gegin ac olewau hanfodol a botanegion wedi’u hysbrydoli gan Ardd Fotaneg Treborth.

Oedran 16+ Gwisgwch ddillad addas rhag ofn i chi eu baeddu.

Eisoes yn llawn.

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Donations

Donations are important to enable us to continue  to offer these events. The suggested amount is £5 per person. You donate online by clicking the button below.

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