The Gardeners’ Question Time team visited the Gardens in November and the show will be broadcast on Friday 5 and repeated on Sunday 7 January on Radio 4.

It was lovely to welcome so many Friends to our Christmas Social this morning.

Our final event for 2023 is our popular Christmas Social on Tuesday 12th December from 11am.

The BBC came to Sheffield over the summer and filmed a segment on the history of the Botanical Gardens, to be included in an episode of Bargain Hunt.

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.