Today saw the start of the Enlighten Festival in the nations' capital and for the first time the National Botanic Gardens participated with Luminous Botanicus, which provides for select dates between 27 February and 7 March 2015, access to the gardens after dark. At 8.00 pm, shortly after dark and after some brief instructions from volunteers of the gardens, we were sent in groups into the rainforest garden for the start of the walk. Given the number o...

Struggling to find something to do on a weekend in Canberra that doesn't involve standing around wet sportsgrounds watching the kids play sport? Try a visit to the Botanic Gardens ... a very pleasant way to spend the best part of the day. After organising this family picnic at the gardens a fortnight ago, we were kind of hoping for fine weather given in the lead up to today it had been raining fairly constantly. My beautiful sister's mother is on her first ove...