Tasmania

Hobart Botanic Gardens

Welcome to the Tasmania Branch page. Our Branch has members throughout the state. We conduct numerous events throughout the year to which visitors are welcome, including garden visits and lectures.

Event Calendar

Past Events

The French Connection

24th May 2025

An enthusiastic group of 55 members of AGHS gathered at the comfortable Ross Town Hall on a drizzly Saturday in late May to hear our first Winter lecture by Prue Slatyer who is an architect, landscape architect and historian as well as the current Chair of the National Management Committee of AGHS. Following morning tea and welcomes from Ann Stark and Kathleen Oakes, Prue delivered her lecture entitled Transmissions Across Continents: The French Connection with Tasmania.

The lecture explored French connections arising from the transmission of botanical knowledge and plant materials between France and Tasmania.

Read the full The French Connection report.

 

Uninnocent Landscapes with Ian Terry

Tasmanian Garden History enthusiasts ventured to the Central Plateau region to enjoy a special visit which encompassed botanics, indigenous history, geology and local knowledge.

Read a report of the event.

Nominating a tree to the Significant Tree Register

The Tasmanian Branch has formed a committee to develop a Significant Tree Register. New committee member and arboriculturist Andrew Robert-Tissot explains how the Register developed and how to nominate a tree.

Branch Committee

Branch Chair: Ann Stark
Deputy Chair: Andrew Robert-Tissot
Secretary:  Antonia Dunne (secretaryaghstas@gmail.com)
Treasurer: Ian Kilgour (treasureraghstas@gmail.com)
Advocacy: Janet Whelan
Special Projects Co-ordinator & NMC Rep: Andrew Robert-Tissot
Committee members: Leslie Kilgour, Janet Whelan, Ian Sampson, Susan Small

Non-committee positions filled by members:
Events Consultant: Wyn Manners (eventsaghstas@gmail.com)
Oral History Coordinator:  Jean Elder