APS MaroondahMeetingsContacts & MembershipNewsletters
8pm on the third Friday of the month (except December)
Venue: The Australian Unity Hall, 8 Main Street, Blackburn Google map link
Membership fees: Single $12 Family $12 + Australian Plants Society Victoria membership fees.
President: Bruce Schroder 9728 1342
Secretary: Peter Rogers 0409 694 623
PO Box 33, Ringwood Vic 3134
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web-site: australianplantssoc.wixsite.com/maroondah
| Edition | Contents |
| Jun 20 | Joe’s Corymbia Quiz; APS Maroondah is Helping East Gippsland; Phil Vaughan Grafted Plant List; Diplolaena grandiflora; Chris Fletcher’s Plant List; A Yellow Waratah? – Part 1; what is eating Corymbia ficifolia?; Myoporum bateae, Veronica arenaria, Acacia gittinsii; Growing Trees; Preparing for an Open Garden; Memories of Shirley Carn; Gang Gang Cockatoos |
| May 20 | Disappearing House (planting a small garden) – Michael Cook; Vale Shirley Carn; Some Gardening Tips from Shirley Carn; Propagating – making do with what you have; Motion Detector Cameras; Templetonia retusa Cockies’ Tongue |
| Apr 20 | Helpful members & Karwarra exhibition; Exhibition at Ringwood Federation Estate; Cultivar Project; Attracting Wildlife to our Gardens; The Art of Log Relocation; Grevillea nudiflora & G. treueriana; Channels for Orchids; Corymbia ficifolia ‘Wildfire’ Red Flowering Gum; Flowering at Montrose; Gardening in the time of Coronavirus |
| Feb 20 | Early Botanical Exploration in Australia – Jan talk by John Thompson; Growing Sturt’s Desert Pea; Jacksonia furcellata; Wollemi Pine – The Good News and the (old) Bad News |
| Nov 19 | Phil Vaughan’s Oct talk: Spectacular plants from WA now becoming available; Another Perspective – grafting, light & drainage, Bruce Schroder; October Garden Visit – Marilyn and Geoff Bull Garden, Montrose; Eucalyptus polyanthemos ssp polyanthemos Red Box; Pretty Screen; Vale Enid Haskins; Stop Mowing and Grow Native; Environment Victoria and the Snapes; Your New Committee |
| Oct 19 | Preview of Oct meeting with Phil Vaughan & the Bull garden visit in Montrose; review of Sep meeting: Eucalypts as Street Trees, Bruce Schroder; Vale Diana Snape & Joan Barrett; Creating a Habitat Garden; Sep garden visits: the Wominjeka (Welcome) Reconciliation garden, Glen Iris, Debbie and Michael’s garden and Eleanor’s garden |
| Sep 19 | Preview of Sep meeting: Eucalypts as Street Trees, Bruce Schroder; preview of Wominjeka Reconciliation Sep Garden visit; Aug meeting review: Gardens for Wildlife by A B Bishop; Leionema coxii; Vale Silver Princess – improve drainage with an augur; review of visit to Pam’s Heathmont garden; the Maroondah Facebook page; Indigofera at Blackburn train station |
| Aug 19 | Preview of Aug meeting: Habitat with AB Bishop; preview of Aug garden visit: Pam Yarra Garden, Heathmont; Visiting the top of Australia with Peter and Alison Rogers; review of July Garden Visit: Cameron Garden, Ringwood East; Olearia astroloba Marble Daisy-bush; Cranbourne Friends; Facebook for Maroondah Group; Vale Merv Hodge |
| Jun 19 | Preview of Jun meeting: Mangroves with Robert King; preview of Jun garden visit: Wombolano Park; May meeting: Hakeas with Royce Raleigh; call for new committee members; Member Profile – Chris and Steve Fletcher; review of May Garden Visits; Gardens are always evolving by Pam Yarra |
| Mar 19 | Preview of Mar meeting: A Macro Photographic Journey through Nature, Nick Monaghan; review of Feb Members’ Night: Ryno Oppermann on Aspalathus linearis, Debbie Jerkovic & using recycled timber, Michael Cook & his new native garden, Dallas Boulton & her involvement with APS, Sue Bendel & caring for wildlife, Bill Aitchison & his Kimberley Coast expedition, Geoff Lay & some of the weird and wonderful plants he has seen in his travels, Joe Wilson & special small trees, Tim Morrow on the rainfall of local suburbs, Peter Rogers on Pimelea decora, the Flinders Poppy; review of Doongalla Forest, Mt Dandenong; News from Ray and Eva’s Garden and Koala release |
| Feb 19 | Preview of Feb garden visit; Eucalyptus lunata Eucalyptus ‘Moon Lagoon’; invitation to Maroondah Group hostng March APS Victoria Meeting; Swainsona formosa Sturt’s Desert Pea; Caladenia colorata Colourful Spider-orchid; Coronidium waddelliae; Member Profile Deb Jerkovic |