Australian Plants Society (Victoria)
Promoting the Appreciation and Preservation of Australian Plants
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Pomonal Native Flower Show
30th Sep @ 9:00 am – 1st Oct @ 4:00 pm
Combined with the Halls Gap flower show, the theme this year is “Eucalypts”, with special guest speaker and eucalypt expert Dean Nicolle.
Cut Flower Displays
Named Specimens
Book Sales
Speakers
Eco-dyeing with eucalypts
Plant Sales
Activities
Village Market
Refreshments
Men’s Shed Sausage-Sizzle
Timetable
Sat 30th Sep
| 10:00am | Paul Kelly ‘Welcome to country’ and the cultural importance of Eucalypts |
| 11:00am-1:00pm | Join Paul Kelly and local guides on a walk around Pomonal, focusing on wildflowers and eucalypts, with special surprises along the way |
| 12:00pm | Dean Nicolle ‘Smaller Eucalypts for Planting in Your Garden’’ |
| 2:00pm 2:30pm | Attila Kapitany will give two consecutive talks: ‘Edible Native Succulents’ .. and ‘Bottle-trees and Related Brachychitons’ |
Sun 1st Oct
| 10:00am | Denis Crawford ‘The Teeming Hordes – the Insects of Eucalypts’ |
| 12:00pm | Dean Nicolle ‘Adventures in Eucalypt Research’ |
| 2:00pm | Neil Marriott ‘WAMA Endemic Garden, Highlighting Endemic Eucalypts’ |
$5
(children free)