The Australian Plants Society (Victoria) is dedicated to promoting, growing and the conservation of Australian native plants, in gardens, community areas and their original environments.
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Bookings open on 15th February 2024 (early bird booking closes 30th June 2024)
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Angus Stewart will be presenting at the next Friends plant sale at the RBG Australian garden Cranbourne.Meet Angus Stewart on Saturday 12 October at the RBGV Cranbourne Plant Sale! Get expert plant advice and answers to your cultivation questions.![]()
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Angus will showcase assorted plants for your home garden with presentations at 11am and 2pm. ![]()
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Don’t miss out!![]()
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Horticulturalist, Patron of the Cranbourne Friends and ABC’s Gardening Australia former presenter.
An important exhibition of botanical work, the aquisitions for the State Botanical Collection. Art on sale will provide funds for the important work of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria
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Two of the ANPSA 2024 day excursions visited remnants of our critically threatened grasslands near Melbourne. ![]()
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Dr Debbie Reynolds guided groups through several key sites and the wonderful nursery at Iramoo at Victoria University. (Debbie completed her PHD on the factors affecting recruitment in populations of the very rare Spiny Rice-flower (Pimelea spinescens subs. spinescens. See photo). ![]()
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Adrian Marshall the Grassy Plains Network facilitator presented during the conference speaking about this threatened ecosystem, some of the beautiful plants and animals to be found and the campaigns to save it. He included the extraordinary story of the rediscovery of the Victorian Grassland Earless Dragon after 50 years of not being seen. ![]()
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Grassland once extended across the greater Victorian Volcanic Plain all the way from the Yarra River to the South Australian border. That grassland was a complex ecosystem of grasses, wildflowers, small shrubs and orchids. Hundreds of species of invertibrates, reptiles and mammals depended on these grasslands. Sadly, less than 2% of that original extent remains, and much of what does remain is heavily degraded. See map.![]()
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Sheep and cattle grazing, the introduction of pasture grasses, the loss of burning by first nations people and the use of superphosphate are the primary causes of this loss. Today, high quality grassland is found only in places that escaped these pressures – including roadsides, rail reserves, settler cemeteries and stony land difficult to clear.![]()
Some of the best remnants are near Melbourne and are under threat. ![]()
If you wish to learn more about our grasslands, view presentations and visit grasslands the Grassy Plains Network is the place to visit. ![]()
grassyplains.net.au/about-us/. You can contact Adrian here Adrian Marshall, GPN Facilitator![]()
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Plant photos taken over some years in the grasslands.
Another wonderful Spring Australian plant sale and show! It is the turn of Ballarat district – Saturday 19th of October. Get those plants in the ground whilst there is rain around!![]()
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m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=851270187135332&id=100067570760312Coming up on Saturday 19 October is the Australian Plants Society Ballarat District Flower Show and Sale. One day only, with a display of Australian native plants that grow in members gardens.
Caladenia aurantiaca – Orange-tipped Caladenia. Found on the walk to Millers landing at Wilson's Promontory during our ANPSA 2024 Gippsland Tour. See vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/60d9a1c8-dcc7-4483-be2f-a7ab0cb7d132