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Meetings normally held on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:30pm.
Venue: TAFE Gippsland, Morwell Campus Google map link
Leader: Jan Workman 0429 029 279
Secretary: Cathy Beamish
PO Box 112, Boolarra Vic 3870
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| Edition | Contents |
|---|---|
| Apr 24 | Jill’s Snippet -Mathieson Park; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish Correa reflexa var. reflexa ‘Buchan’; Cranbourne Botanic Garden – Mike and Cathy Beamish; ‘Cracking the Sads’ – summer garden woes – Daryl Radnall |
| Mar 24 | Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish Pterostylis coccina; Tarra Bulga National Park visit |
| Feb 24 | Leader’s Report – Jan Workman; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; Boolarra weather 2023 – Mike Beamish; Spectacular at Loch Sport – Daryl Radnall |
| Jan 24 | Leader’s Report – Jan Workman; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; January Meeting Reminder and Mike’s Baw Baw photos from last year; Our Blackwood Adventures – Mike Beamish; Coming events of interest; Rainfall registration charts |
| Nov 23 | Leader’s Report – Jan Workman; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; APS Latrobe Valley Calendars; January Meeting Reminder – Mt Baw Baw Edski Lodge; A squatter in the spare room – Daryl Radnell; September meeting report – Jill Fidler; Latrobe Valley Group Events Calendar; A Spring welcome home – Daryl Radnell |
| Oct 23 | Vice-Leader’s Report – Jan Workman; APS Latrobe Valley Group Calendar; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; Coming events of interest; Book Review – Ian Fraser |
| Sep 23 | Vice-Leader’s Report – Jill Fidler; APS Latrobe Valley Group Calendar; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; October Blackwood Trip; Justifying not weeding– Daryl Radnall |
| Aug 23 | Leader’s Report – Jill Fidler; APS Latrobe Valley Group Calendar; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; Western Australia – Wildflower delight – Helen Appleby; Coming events of interest.; Rainfall registration charts; Latrobe Valley Notice of Annual General Meeting |
| Jul 23 | Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; 2024 Calendar Submissions – Cathy Beamish; APS Latrobe Valley Group Calendar; Coming events of interest; Rainfall registration charts; Notice of Annual General Meeting |
| Jun 23 | Plants in my Garden – Zieria prostrata; Book Review – The Road to Gondwana. In search of the lost supercontinent by Bill Morris |
| May 23 | Dendrobium kingianum Pink Rock Orchid; Coming group events for your consideration; April activity report |
| Apr 23 | Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; Garden orchid surprise – Diane Aumann; Not just dying…falling over too – Daryl Radnall; Book Review – The Compact Australian Bird Guide – Ian Fraser |
| Mar 23 | Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; Plants that have died in my garden – Daryl Radnall; Mt Baw Baw Non-Orchids (aka Critters) – Mike Beamish |
| Feb 23 | Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; And the rains fell in Boolarra – Mike Beamish; Summer on Mt Baw Baw – Col Jackson; Our Xanthorrhoeas – Wendy and Peter Cox |
| Dec 22 | Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; 2022 Calendar Spot -December – Judy Hetherington; Galivanting with orchids… – Mike Beamish; Gymea Lilies flowering in Churchill – Ray Hodges |
| Nov 22 | Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; 2022 Calendar Spot -November – Cathy Beamish; Rainfall registration charts; Gormandale Delights – Col Jackson |
| Oct 22 | 2022 Calendar Spot -January – Pamela Cox; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; Mt Cannibal Flora and Fauna Reserve; More Orchids on the verge |
| Aug 22 | Leader’s Report – Jill Fidler; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; White Woman’s Waterhole – Col Jackson; 2022 Calendar Spot -August – Pamela Cox; APS Latrobe Valley Group Calendar; Coming events of interest.; Rainfall registration charts; Notice of Annual General Meeting |
| Jul 22 | Leader’s Report – Jill Fidler; Editor’s Notes – Col Jackson; Plants in my Garden – Mike Beamish; A possible Spring trip for our group?; APS Latrobe Valley Group Calendar; A beginners try at growing gums from seed – Heather Waddell; 2022 Calendar Spot -July – Col Jackson; Blue Rock Lake and the Wilkinson’s garden – Col Jackson; Coming events of interest.; Rainfall registration charts; Copy of APS Subscription form (if required) |
| Jun 22 | Correa glabra var. turnbullii Rock Correa; Melaleuca nesophila Showy Honey-myrtle; 2023 calendar photo submissions; Our move to Drouin; Doryanthes excelsor Gymea Lily |
| May 22 | Viola hederacea Ivy-leaved Violet; Book review – Wildlife of the Box-Ironbark Country by Chris Tzaros; Microseris Yam Daisy |
| Apr 22 | Correa lawrenceana Mountain Correa; Book review – Guide to Native Orchids of NSW and ACT Lachlan Copeland and Gary Backhouse; The Eel Hole Creek Walk |
| Mar 22 | Boronia crenulata Aniseed Boronia; Bell-fruited Mallee; Mathison Park in Churchill outing; book review: Australian Deserts; Ecology and Landscapes by Steve Morton |
| Feb 22 | Anigozanthos manglesii x flavidus; Spring/Summer Garden Disasters; The Lyrebird Walk, Mirboo North; The Vagaries of Boolarra Weather; Lantern Bushes of Australia |
| Dec 21 | Blechnum nudum Fishbone Water Fern; Loch Sport – Springtime fauna and flora |
| Nov 21 | Melaleuca lateritia Robin Redbreast Bush; Judy Stirrett’s Moe South Ramblings; Of bees and tea trees; Flowers and mozzies – fun at Loch Sport |
| Oct 21 | Pandorea jasminoides Bower Climber; Mistletoe – Friend or Foe?; The Victorian Desalination Plant; Traralgon Sth. FFR & Calignee State Forest; Nymphoides indica (Water Snowflakes) in the Kimberley; Col’s Bee Motel |
| Sep 21 | Polystichum proliferum Mother Shield Fern; “Going for Gold” – Wattles; Flash Walk – Uralla Nature Reserve |
| Aug 21 | Leader’s Report & Fred Rogers; Satin Bower Birds; Eremophila ‘Augusta Storm’ (E. glabra x E. veneta); The Bee Motel; Coastal Tea Tree – a sculpture beyond life; Eastern Water Dragon |
| Jun 21 | Cranbourne Botanic Gardens outing review; Lomatia myricoides River Lomatia; The Superb Lyrebird; Jun outing preview; Calendar Photo Competition; The Australian Inland Botanic Gardens |
| May 21 | Eucalyptus kitsoniana Gippsland Mallee; Eucalyptus of the Year Competition; Redgum Huggers; Lyrebirds: Nature’s Ecosystem Engineers |
| Apr 21 | Mar APS Vic quarterly weekend in Warrnambool; On native bees & pruning; Melaleuca teretifolia; The James Swan Reserve; Rokeby Crossover Rail Trail; Flying Duck orchid Caleana major; Eucalypt borer attack |
| Oct 20 | Parkville grassland restoration; Calendar photo spot; Hibiscus geranioides; Wattle we name them?; New life in ‘The Res’; And new life in the bush; Natives amongst the pines; Ramblings from Moe South; Stunning Hakeas |
| Aug 20 | Bruce Pascoe’s native flour; Solanum aviculare Kangaroo Apple; “A well-behaved vine” – Hibbertia dentata Trailing guinea flower; Judy Stirrett’s “Ramblings from Moe South”; Dendrobium speciosum The Rock Orchid; What is it: Rough or Smooth Tree-fern?; Ferns noted at Mount Worth State Park |
| Jul 20 | Eremophila macdonnellii; Tasmanian nursery dream, Jill Fidler; A sharing of flowers and ideas, Judy Stirrett; Xanthorrhoea australis after fire; Pink Rock-orchid: Dendrobium kingianum; Nestboxes |
| Jun 20 | Pauridia (syn. Hypoxis) vaginata Yellow Star; In the beginning … 1770 – Banksias; My Favourite Garden Location – John Stephens; Counting Cockies; Our new winter veggie garden – Judy Hetherington |
| May 20 | Petrophile teretifolia; Covid-19 and the autumn gardener’s lament; Cephalotus follicularis The Albany Pitcher Plant; Cashmere Drive POP-UP Café; The Curious Case of the Climbing Echidna |
| Apr 20 | Arthropodium milleflorum Pale Vanilla Lily; Keeping sane in physical isolation; Native plants for small gardens talk; The Red Man of Mildura |
| Mar 20 | Eremophila glabra ‘Steep Point’; Of droughts and flooding rain |
| Feb 20 | Report on Peppermint Ridge Farm at Tynong North; Gardening Australia segment on plane trees hosting mistletoe; Grevillea paradoxa; Granddaughters and Spring flowers – Mary Jackson .. and Lyrebirds at Jeeralang Junction |
| Dec 19 | Old Mill Site at Boolarra; Hibbertia procumbens Spreading Guinea Flower; 2020 Calendar photo spot – Butterfly Orchid, Caladenia lobata; Paper Daisies: colour by chance or design? |
| Nov 19 | Review of Celia Rosser gallery visit; Ornduffia reniformis Running Marsh-flower; South Australian Travels – Mike Beamish; LV Mine Rehabilitation Presentation; Hypocalymma angustifolium White Myrtle |
| Oct 19 | Review of Sep visit to Steve and Bri’s Gormandale garden; Arthropodium strictum Chocolate Lily; A Japanese Garden, Pamela Cox; Holey Plains State Park: Recovery after the fire |
| Sep 19 | AGM report; Prostanthera calycina Red Mintbush; Christmas Lunch at Peppermint Ridge Farm |
| Aug 19 | Review of July outing to Dot and Bob O’Neill’s garden; Caesia calliantha Blue Grass-lily; Eucalyptus erythrocorys Red-capped Mallee or Illyarrie; Notice of AGM |
| Jul 19 | Review of Hodges’ trip to Norfolk Island; Verticordia plumosa Plumed Featherflower; Bee motel from Col’s letterbox; Mike & Cathy in Canada |
| Jun 19 | Review of presentation by Judy and Brian Hetherington on seed dispersal; Prostanthera nivea Snowy Mintbush; Autumn Gardening at Moe South By Judy Stirrett; Propagating Succulents by Cuttings |
| May 19 | Beaufortia schaueri Pink Bottlebrush; Desert colour in Gippsland – Parakeelyas (Calandrinia spp.) |
| Apr 19 | August photo competition; Eucalyptus neglecta Omeo Gum; Tanjil South and Moe South Garden Visits; Wendy Cox’s scone & fruit loaf recipes |
| Mar 19 | West Gippsland Garden Visits – Cox, Hetherington and Pellachi gardens; Doryanthes excelsa Gymea, Flame, Giant or Illawarra Lily |
| Feb 19 | Dianella tasmanica Tasman Flax-lily; Summertime on the Wellington River |
| Dec 18 | Albany Pitcher Plant Cephalotus follicularis; Albany or Swamp Daisy Actinodium cunninghamii; White Cedar Melia azedarach; Dianella…a good hardy plant for dry locations; Prostanthera cuneata Alpine Mint Bush |
| Nov 18 | Mike Beamish and orchids of SW WA; Col Jackson travelling through the Simpson Desert; Hakea eriantha Tree Hakea; Svalbard Flora, Daryl Radnell |
| Oct 18 | Callistemon pallidus Lemon Bottlebrush; Springtime on the Wellington River – Mike Beamish |
| Sep 18 | Isopogon buxifolius; Pretty as a Picture – Epacris & Correa by Yvonne McInnes; AGM & leader’s report |
| Aug 18 | AGM agenda; Central Australia trip update by Col Jackson; Ozothamnus diosmifolius (Rice Flower); Cox’s Corner – Australian plants in Europe |
| Jul 18 | Calytrix tetragona Common Fringe-myrtle; Warty-fruited Hakea; Membership form |
| Jun 18 | Hakea salicifolia (Willow-leaved Hakea); What is the meaning of ‘prostrate’? – Banksia integrifolia |
| May 18 | Mike Beamish on Walkerville flora and Lasiopetalum discolor (Coast Velvet-bush); Col Jackson on Plectanthrus argentatus (Silver Spurflower) |
| Apr 18 | Mike Beamish on Baw Baw flora, Corowa concert and veggie patch; Libertia paniculata (Branching Grass-flag); Col Jackson & Pamela Cox and effect of dry spell on flora & flora; emerging dragonfly by Mary Jackson |
| Mar 18 | review of Diana and Hugh Droog’s property at Toora, Mt Baw Baw flora, Xanthorrhoea australis (Southern Grass Tree); Yea Wetlands excursion postponed until later in the year; Col Jackson on Eucalyptus caesia Silver Princess |
| Feb 18 | Mike Beamish & Col Jackson: Wellington River above Licola and high country orchids; veggie garden; Lasiopetalum macrophyllum (Shrubby Velvet Bush); Col Jackson’s propagating & potting shelter; Pamela Cox & Christmas at Fozigobbles |