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Beautiful Garden Gift Ideas for Christmas

What's under your tree this Christmas? Add a touch of nature with the Garden's fabulous range of gifts from luxurious candles, a Garden inspired history book, stunning artworks and experiences. Mix it up this year and create your own gifts with our Christmas gift workshops or plan your New year's eve at the Garden by the specatular harbour. Browse through our catalogue below to find the ultimate bespoke Christmas gift.

Gifts From Nature

Archie Rose Distilling Co.
Create your own tailored gin, vodka, or bottled cocktails to match your favourite botanicals with Archie Rose’s bold and bountiful new Christmas Tailored Label range. Featuring the gorgeous work of textile designer and illustrator Edith Rewa, her bright and blooming native botanical sketches bring bottles, gift boxes, a new limited edition canvas bag and more to life this festive season.
 
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Botanic Gardens Gallery
Check out our great range of cards, gifts and decorations with every purchase supporting your Botanic Gardens.
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Botanica By Australian Botanic Garden Candle
First Nation’s peoples recognised Mount Annan as Yandel’ora, meaning “a meeting place of all peoples”. Warm your home with the scent of Australia’s largest botanic garden, the Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annan.
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RBG history book

Stunning image rich coffee table book that travels through the life of the Garden from its early collectors and directors to a contemporary botanic garden.

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Potted bowls and indoor plants
Our Growing Friends have been busy potting up these bespoke bowls of indoor plants.  They’ll look great on your desk at work, make the perfect ‘plant pet’ for kids or  gift for Grandma!
 
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Tillandsias on boards
Board of the usual present? These silver-toned epiphytes are known as tillandsias or air plants, and literally grow on fresh air – and regular misting.  Hang them in your trees or mount them onto a Christmas Wreath for a growing gift.
 
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Native Holly
Native Holly is a beautiful Australian plant with leaves that resemble the Christmas holly so many of us think of each year…only this version is home grown and has stunning cerise flowers.  Check out our range of natives at Growing Friends from only $6
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Foundation and Friends membership

Gift the gift of membership or join our community yourself and support the Botanic Gardens! Annual membership to Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens gives you a range of great discounts and access to exclusive events and experiences.

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Special Experiences

New Year's Eve
Choose from seven unique harbourside events and ring in the new year with family and friends in the beauty of the Royal Botanic Garden. Each event offers a range of entertainment, food and beverage options. 
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Field Day
Known for a super-friendly atmosphere and quality line-ups mixing hip-hop, house, indie and electronic artists from around Australia and the world. Field Day is a nice way to do New Year’s there is no better, fresher way to start the year.
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Westpac OpenAir
OpenAir Cinema is an unforgettable moment in each Sydney summer. Set on Mrs Macquaries Point against a backdrop that spans the Opera House, Harbour Bridge and city skyline, OpenAir is a festival of film and food, and a celebration of summer in the wonderful city we call home.
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Wind in the Willows
It’s that time of year again. The amazing Mr Toad and his bonny, boisterous pals are heading back to Sydney’s Royal Botanic Garden for the 20th consecutive year. Join in on the fun! 
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Handa Opera on Sydney Harbour: Madama Butterfly on Sydney Harbour
Take your seats overlooking ‘Paradise’ – complete with a bamboo grove, a giant moon, and a rising sun floating in the harbour. The picture-perfect backdrop of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge twinkles with thousands of city lights as night falls.
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Noël Sydney
Noël Sydney is a brand new, magical Christmas celebration to set festive spirits soaring across 16 nights in December. The gates of the Royal Botanic Garden Sydney will stay open late, inviting friends and families to discover enchanting Christmas markets, light installations and nightly entertainment. 
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