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2nd Wednesday of the month @ 2pm (April – September) & 7.30 pm (October – March, except January).
Venue: The Robert Clark Horticultural Centre, Botanical Gardens. Entrance Gate 3, Gillies St; Ballarat. Google map link
Membership Fees: Single $10, Family $13 + (APS Vic Memb. Fees)
President: John Hastie 5341 5567
Secretary: Janine O’Malley
Treasurer: Ainslie Whyte
PO. Box 123W, Ballarat West, Vic 3350.
| Edition | Contents |
| May 22 | April meeting: John Hastie on Prostanthera species, Mint Bushes, and Mints; The Garden at Elaine in April; Library – APS Ballarat District; Gall-wasp infestation on Eucalyptus petiolaris |
| Apr 22 | Library; The Garden at Elaine in March; Mar excursion: Bunanyung Landscape Alliance presentation of their Ballarat Goldfields Little Creeks Restoration Strategy |
| Mar 22 | The Garden at Elaine in February; February Bird and Plant Walk with Roger Thomas; The Gold-tipped Leafcutter bee |
| Feb 22 | Eleocarpus reticulatus Blueberry Ash; Biosecurity in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens; The Garden at Elaine in Dec & Jan; Hakea prostrata Harsh Hakea |
| Dec 21 | Nov garden visits report: Hasties’, Hendricksons’ & Colliers’; The Garden at Elaine in Nov |
| Nov 21 | Wartook Gardens excursion report; The garden at Elaine in Oct |
| Oct 21 | The Garden at Elaine in Sep; Wattles |
| Sep 21 | Wattle day; The garden at Elaine in Aug; Ten year flashback: Brendon Stahl on Banksias; Stan Kelly 1991 interview on his book Eucalypts Vol 1 |
| Aug 21 | July Meeting, Chris Clarke and a ‘A Snapshot of Victorian Alpine Flora’ |
| Jul 21 | The garden at Elaine in Jun |
| Jun 21 | May meeting report: Peter Rogers on Outback Queensland; the garden at Elaine in May; the Australian Botanic Gardens, Shepparton |
| May 21 | Apr meeting report: Donna Thomas on a new project in the Ballarat Botanical Gardens; Apr outing: the garden at Elaine & Birdsong Nursery and Garden |
| Apr 21 | Mar meeting report Bee Homes and Nest Boxes; Vale Liz Bowden; the Garden at Elaine; Western Victorian Transmission Project; Mar excursion report: Annual Bird and Plant Walk with Roger Thomas; Book Review: Kevin Sparrow’s ‘Plants of the Great South West’ |
| Mar 21 | Feb Meeting in Buninyong Botanic Gardens; The Garden at Elaine; Book reviews: Australian Native Gardening Made Easy Dick Chadwick, Australian Native Plants: Concise edition John Wrigley and Murray Fagg, Australian Wildflowers, (Cronin’s Key Guide) 3rd Edition Leonard Cronin, Birdscaping Australian Gardens George Adams; Creating an Australian Garden Angus Stewart |
| Feb 21 | Hastie Garden at Elaine in Summer; NEUTROG Product Order |
| Dec 20 | A Wander Through the Hastie Garden |
| Nov 20 | Hastie Garden at Elaine in Oct; ‘Ballarat Wild Plants’ nursery |
| Oct 20 | Snow on a Ballarat Native Garden!; Hastie Garden at Elaine in Sep; What’s in Flower – Rhonda Humphries & Paddy Marshall; 10-yr Flashback: Hawk Moth caterpillar |
| Sep 20 | Facebook page under construction; The Hastie Garden at Elaine in August; 10yr Flashback: Cathy Powers – Fungi; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly; The Blue Gum & the Pine Tree |
| Aug 20 | Covid-19 cancellations; ‘Australian Plants Society Ballarat District’ Facebook page; Elaine Plant Sale Report; The Garden at Elaine in July; Rhonda & Ross Humphries Plants in flower |
| Jul 20 | Memberships due; ‘Care for the Rare’ project; Murnong SEED Citizen Science Project |
| Jun 20 | The Garden at Elaine; Mostly Aussie Nursery, Dunkeld, closing |
| May 20 | The Garden at Elaine: From the Hasties; Building a Garden – water in the garden |
| Apr 20 | Mar report: Ade Foster – Travels in North Western Australia in August 2019; John Hastie: Wattles in Flower; Accidentally a Forest: An observation from member Susan Ring; Wollemi Pine Wollemia nobilis |
| Mar 20 | Feb Excursion Report: Wetlands Walk and Talk with Roger Thomas at Macarthur Park Wetlands; February Guest Speaker Report – Fon Ryan: ‘A Celebration of Digital Photography’ |
| Feb 20 | End of Year Celebrations Report; preview of April mtg: Donna Thomas – Ballarat Botanical Gardens Indigenous Plant Conservation Project |
| Dec 19 | Nov Guest Speaker Report: Peter Debicki (The Polish Beekeeper); Nov Excursion Report: Visit to Jenny West’s Garden at Gordon |
| Nov 19 | Oct meeting: Daniel Lewry – Physiotherapist; October Flower Show Report; Excursion Report: Spring bus trip, Corio/Lara/Brisbane Ranges |
| Oct 19 | September Guest Speaker Report: Sam Strong on ‘Gardens for Wildlife’; September Excursion Report: The Australian Garden at Cranbourne; Aust. Native Plant workshops, including activities for visually impaired |
| Sep 19 | Sep excursion to the Australian Garden at Cranbourne; afternoon vs evening meetings |
| Aug 19 | Jul Guest Speaker Report: Peter Marquand, Curator of the Ballarat Botanical Gardens; Happy Birthday Paddy Marshall |
| Jul 19 | Call for President, Secretary & Treasurer; Jun meeting review: Helen Lovel, from Neutrog Biological Fertilizers; Review of Winter Flower Show |
| Jun 19 | May meeting review: Peter Broughton on the State of the Nursery Industry; APS Geelong Apr meeting review: ‘Eucalypts’ – by Dean Nicolle; Call for President, Secretary & Treasurer; Eucalyptus leucoxylon ssp. megalocarpa |
| May 19 | Our Group Needs a Secretary!; review of Apr presentation by Jenny & Peter Sedgwick on “Home and Habitat”; garden visit to Phyllis Wright at Creswick |
| Apr 19 | Review of Roger Thomas’s March presentation: ‘My Nature Year’; Garden Challenges, Gladys Hastie; Our Group Needs a Secretary! |
| Mar 19 | Review of Fon Ryan’s presentation: ‘A Celebration of Digital Photography’; Call for new secretary; Feb excursion report: Annual Bird and Plant Walk with Roger Thomas to the North Gardens Reserve |
| Feb 19 | Call for new secretary |
| Dec 18 | Review of Jenny West’s Nov talk on pollination; call for new secretary; review of Nov excursion to Gladys and John Hastie’s garden at Elaine; Wildflower Trip to WA – Ruth Marton |
| Nov 18 | Presentation to Joan Jenkins; Review of Oct Spring Flower Show |
| Oct 18 | Review of Sep excursion to Lara |
| Sep 18 | Review of July excursion to Collier garden and protea farm; review of August workshop on propagating Aust. native plants; Old Andado Station – Liz Bowden; call for suggestions for Ballarat District plant list |
| Aug 18 | Review of Roger Wileman presentation – Flora of the Wheat Belt of West Australia; memberships due; review of Ballarat District winter flower show |
| Mar 18 | Vale Helen Burgess; Excursion Report: Annual Bird and Plant Walk with Roger Thomas; Guest Speaker Report: Fon Ryan – ‘A Celebration of Digital Photography’ |