FOBS old and new are invited to our annual festive get-together………

Drinks and mince pies, an illustrated presentation on events of the past year and team quizzes, plus some last minute Christmas shopping - in the company of Friends.

We hope you can join us!

Join us as we walk around the Gardens and learn about some of our magnificent, rare and unusual trees.

Professional Garden Designer Linda Heywood shares her knowledge of echiums, a plant that we can all grow in our gardens.

The Friends’ AGM will commence at 10.00am in the Dorothy Fox Centre in the Botanical Gardens and is open to all members. Laura Alston, our Education and Engagement Coordinator will provide an update on the Education Programme.

Join us for our Halloween special exploring poisonous and magical plants in the Gardens.

Textile practitioner Isobel Denton will share details of plants that can be grown for their natural dyeing properties and provide advice on planting and growing a dye garden.

Jacob `Davies of Green Estate will encourage us to stop viewing large, vigorous perennials as thugs and to include them in low maintenance plantings

Join us for a walk looking at the medicinal uses of plants.

Local garden designer Will Thomson will share some of the gardens and experiences he gained during a fellowship in Japan

Join us on the Lower Lawns for our September sale of plants propagated from the Gardens and from seed.

Nursery owner and gardener Neil Timm will talk about growing wild flowers in the garden, garden escapees in the wild, and some that belong to both worlds.

Join The Pantaloons for their performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor

This afternoon we will be looking at how plants and pollinators work together.

Garden designer Steve Lovell will take a look at how we can make our gardens more wildlife friendly by changing our approach, creating micro habitats and building up the eco systems within our garden boundaries.

This evening we will be looking at how a local artist uses flowers as an inspiration for her work.

Join The Pantaloons for their performance of Robin Hood live in the gardens!

Special 40th Anniversary Celebration Evening at Sheffield General Cemetery. Tour and lecture on the creation of the Bible Society’s Psalm 27 Garden by Sheffield landscape architect Ollie Pike , its relocation to Sheffield General Cemetery and some future plans and projects. Special ticketed event.

Join The Pantaloons for their performance of The Merry Wives of Windsor

Please join us in the Gardens to celebrate our 40th anniversary. A special event open to all.

Join us as we walk around with a local artist to see how her art is inspired by beautiful summer flowers.

Senior Gardener Natasha will describe how her team keep, maintain and manage eight acres of garden at National Trust, Gunby Estate, Hall and Gardens in Lincolnshire.

Rob King will share how he has not only created a beautiful garden for adults, but for children to enjoy too! He will speak about his gardening influences, how he created this garden from scratch on a shoestring budget, and how he manages to have colour all year round.

Join us this evening for a walk looking at how plants and their pollinators interact.

A small pop-up plant sale on the lower lawns. All proceeds come back to the Gardens.

Join us this afternoon for a walk looking at tropical trees and plants around the Gardens.

This afternoon we be exploring plants that Shakespeare included in his works.

Houseplants are a great way of bringing joy to you and colour to your home; they help lift the spirits – as well as helping to create a healthier environment, but they don’t always live up to our expectations. Garden writer Geoff Hodge will provide hints and tips to keep your plants in very good health.

Dr Klemperer will focus on the gradual restoration of certain key elements within the Brodsworth site, making it one of the most unique Victorian Gardens in the country and the challenges of undertaking accurate restoration and interpretation as fashions change in horticulture .