Sponsoring a Plant
Plant sponsorship is one way that you can help support Olive Pink Botanic Garden’s development and maintenance programs. People also choose to sponsor plants as a way of marking significant family events, like a child's birth or the passing of a family member or friend.

Plant sponsorship entitles you to a plant a sponsorship certificate, and to having your name and/or your nominated recipient's name recorded on our plant sponsorship database. Certain categories of sponsorship also entitle you to have the sponsor's name engraved onto the back of the standard plant label. Please see a copy of our plant sponsorship guidelines for more details.

We have a tiered sponsorship pricing system, based on whether the selcted species is rare or threatened, iconic, or whether it is one of the surviving plants our founder, Miss Pink, planted. For a base cost of $50 (Copper categroy sponsorship). you can select a plant (or have us select one on your behalf) from a selection of short-medium lived shrubs in our plant collection. For more information about different sponsorship categories please see our plant sponsorship guidelines.

Example of a sponsored plant in the Garden - Desert Grass Tree. Note the diagonal marking on the top left hand corner of the plant label denoting sponsorship	The Blakeman Shelter memorialises John Blakeman - an extraordinary person who contributed significantly to the early development of the Garden through his chairmanship the Board of Trustees in the 1980s

It is also possible to sponsor a project or whole new planting area within the Garden. In certain cases, it may be possible to sponsor a project in memory of person who had a long association with Olive Pink Botanic Garden. Recent examples of sponsored memorial projects are the Frances and Clarry Smith Mosaic Wall Project and the Barry Bucholtz Memorial Bird-Attracting Garden. The former project celebrates the extraordinary contributions made by the late curator (1990-2005), Clarry Smith, and his wife, Frances who was a passionate and energetic volunteer at Olive Pink Botanic Garden for many years. The memorial Eremophila garden was planted in 2007 to honour the late Barry Bucholtz, a keen birdwatcher who was a regular visitor and supporter of Olive Pink Botanic Garden.

We would like to acknowledge generous project sponsorship from CEMEX Australia (formerly Readymix) for provision of materials for the mosaic wall project. Sitzler also provided in-kind support for this project.

For more information about plant sponsorship or project sponsorship please contact the Curator.