APS Latrobe ValleyMeetingsContacts & MembershipNewsletters
Meetings normally held on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 7:30pm.
Venue: TAFE Gippsland, Morwell Campus Google map link
Membership fees: Single $10 Family $15 + Australian Plants Society Victoria membership fees.
Leader: Rhonda Fitch 0459 749 885
Secretary: Judy Hetherington 0497 000 925
PO Box 112, Boolarra Vic 3870
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| Edition | Contents |
| 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 |