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Wimmera Growers of Australian Plants Inc Registered No Page 1 WGAP Newsletter Wimmera Growers of Australian Plants Inc Registered No. A001049IR WGAP, PO Box 533, Horsham 3402, Secretary 5382 4383 Newsletter – Liz and Gil Hopkins 5383 8207 [email protected] June-August 2016 2016 events and dates for your diary – please note changes Meetings are usually at 7.30pm the first Thursday of the month. There is NO meeting in July Thursday June 2, at Wimmera Lodge Retirement Village Plants of the Future with Trevor Blake Rosters: Plants – Marie & Graham Goods; Supper – Jan Bansemer Triffids? Thursday August 4, 7.30pm at Wimmera Lodge Retirement Village Grampians after Floods and Fire with David & Linda Handscome (TBC) Rosters: Plants – JanBert Brouwer; Supper – Mabel Brouwer Thursday September 1, 7.30pm at Wimmera Lodge Retirement Village Member’s Meeting Rosters: Plants – Graeme Gulline; Supper – Merlyn McFarlane Sunday October 2 – Raleigh’s Wartook Native Garden Open $10 entry Wimmera Health Care Foundation. 5383 6200 Friday/Saturday/Sunday October 7, 8, 9 – Horsham Garden Festival Weekend Saturday/Sunday October 8, 9 - Fred Rogers Seminar in Hamilton Native Terrestrial and Epiphytic Orchids. Register your interest at [email protected] Saturday/Sunday October 21, 22 – Goods’ Wail East Open Garden $10 entry. Details 0427 832 249 Saturday/Sunday October 29, 30 – WGAP 40 th Anniversary & APSVic Quarterly meeting Mallee to Mountains visiting Gebert’s garden to Raleigh’s garden, and plants for sale. Sunday December 4? – Christmas Breakup at Merlyn McFarlane’s garden See page 5 for more information about October 2, 21/22, and 29/30 garden visits. Other APSVic notices: 4 June 2016 - RBG Cranbourne Fabulous Fungi Workshop. 9.30am to 4.00pm. RBGC Friends members $60, non members $75 11, 12 & 13 June Bookfest 2016 – Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Cranbourne, from 10.00 am to 4.00 pm in the auditorium. 25 & 26 June APS Ballarat Winter Flower Show and plant sales. Robert Clark Horticultural Centre, Ballarat Botanic Gardens. 23 & 24 July Growing Friends Spring Plant Sale – RBG Cranbourne. 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. (Mel 133 K10) 3 September APS Wilson Park Plant Sale, Wilson Botanic Park, Princes Highway, Berwick. 9 am to 4.00 pm 3 & 4 September Bendigo Native Plants Group Flower Show, Rotary Gateway Park, 26 High Street, Kangaroo Flat. 10 September APS Yarra Yarra Native Plants Sale. Venue to be advised. 10 am to 4 pm. 17 & 18 September Angair (Anglesea and Aireys Inlet Wildflower and Art Show), Anglesea Memorial Hall, McMillan St, Anglesea. 1 & 2 October APS Grampians Group Pomonal Native Flower Show, Pomonal Hall. 9.30 am to 5.00 pm. 7, 8 & 9 October – Horsham Garden Festival Weekend hosted by Wimmera Growers of Australian Plants Inc. 8 & 9 October 2016 FJC Rogers Seminar in Hamilton ‘Native Terrestrial and Epiphytic Orchids’. Saturday full day conference and formal dinner, Sunday field trips. 15 October APS Mitchell Annual Spring Plant Expo and Sale, from 9.00 am to 3.00 pm Memorial Hall, Sydney Street, Kilmore. 22 October APS Echuca Moama Native Plant Society – Native Flower Showcase. Echuca Uniting Church Hall, Hare Street, Echuca. 22 & 23 October APS Ballarat Annual Spring Flower Show, book and plant sales. Ballarat Botanic Gardens. 10.00 am to 4.30 pm. 24–26 November – Kangaroo Paw Celebration November 2016 at Cranbourne Gardens. A special three day symposium. Page 2 WGAP Newsletter From the President by Royce Raleigh Banksia micrantha What a wonderful couple of weeks of moisture. Although In WA in the sandy heaths it is often only a small plant some areas didn’t get the totals predicted others had lovely well under a metre tall, our plant is already over 1m x 1.5m rain. North and west of Horsham appeared to have had the and is flowering for the first time. Most of the flowers are least. Here at Wartook we are about 40mm for the week, hidden within the bush but it has many, many flowers. We but David Handscombe at Pomonal had over 60mm, and are growing it on sand but I feel that it would grow quite some of his neighbours even more. At least it has greened well in well-drained loamy soil. up everything which in itself lifts spirits. We have stopped watering and started planting in earnest. How many have tried to look at Nature Share? Cathy gave us a detailed introduction but I am afraid I have been too busy to do anything so far, but it is on my “to do” list. Once again we had a great meeting in Warracknabeal and it was good to see so many there. Marilyn gave us a wealth of information and her enthusiasm is infectious! Many thanks to Jenny Taylor and Evelyn McColl for again organising a wonderful table of specimens. Thanks also to Maree for organising the get-together pre-meeting meal. APS Vic is looking for Vice Presidents. If anyone is looking for a more active role in APS Vic there are 2 vacancies. The AGM is to be held in September in Bairnsdale. There are some great garden visits planned. If any member has an interesting story about Wimmera Banksia bauera (Koala banksia) Growers, I am looking for articles or stories to put into a th I also brought this in to the February meeting when it was booklet for our 40 Anniversary. I don’t expect huge detail just a very thin bud. This time a little thicker and larger, and but a few paragraphs and a photo or two would be great. If over the next couple of months it will continue to expand some of our long-time members could write a paragraph or into quite a large flower. Although usually grey, this tan two that would be tremendous. June has already passed form from East Mt Barren is most attractive. on a lot of material and I thank her for that. Jeanne and I went to Colac and spoke to the group on Pea Plants. It great to meet a number of people that we had not seen for some time and it was interesting to see the number of plants Paul and Barbara Kennedy already have in their garden. Paul has already planted over 130 hakeas, over 30 banksias and many melaleucas, grevilleas and swainsonas – which were all doing very well. After 2 years Banksia brownii was almost 2m high and already in flower. Let us hope that we continue to receive rain and hope that dams and gardens get lots of benefit. Have you noticed that many plants have come into flower early this year? Good gardening and planting! April meeting Specimen table by Royce Once again there were many specimens and a sign that Eucalyptus kruseana the flowering season is beginning despite the dry. This is a small Eucalypt that should be much more widely Royce brought in the following plants. grown in our gardens. Our plants are about 30 years old Eleocarpus reticulatus (Blueberry Ash) and are now about 2.5m tall. It is never a dense plant so This is plant that has proved very hardy and it grows will allow light through the plant to others growing beneath successfully in a wide range of climates. In its natural and therefore can be used in many situations. habitat it is found from Q’ld right down the east coast to Bass Strait. Although the pink or white flowers appear in the spring the berries stay on the plant for a long time. Our plants now are about 8m tall. Page 3 WGAP Newsletter Hakeas in flower at Wartook Gardens in May by Royce Hakea cycloptera from SA is usually the first to flower for us and the forms that we grow come from the Eyre Peninsula. We have both white and one with a pink blush. Hakea Burrendong Beauty is another very early one. One that has flowered very early for us this year is the Wongan Hills form of Hakea multilineata . Flora Australia indicates with further study this may become a separate species. We have usually photographed this in WA in late July/August. Other Hakeas in flower at present are H. laurina (both ‘normal’ and larger flowered weeping form), H. pycnoneura and H scoparia . Hakea grammatophylla Hakea scoparia Hakea cycloptera Hakea multilineata (Wongan Hills) Hakea pycnoneura Plants for Sale Graham and Maree Goods are opening their garden to the public on October 22 and 23, 2016. They have been growing plants for a plant sale at the open garden. Many of these plants are ready for sale now and are being made available to anyone who is interested in purchasing some. This will need to be done before June 30, 2016. All proceeds will go to the Horsham Church of Christ Ministry Centre building fund. They can be contacted by phone 0427 832 249 or email [email protected] . They can email a plant list out to anyone who is interested. Hakea laurina weeping form Hamilton and Warrnambool groups will host the Fred Rogers Seminar on October 8-9, 2016 in Hamilton. The topic is Native Terrestrial and Epiphytic Orchids. Page 4 WGAP Newsletter April meeting – NatureShare with Cathy Powers May meeting – Growing native cut-flowers by Gil Hopkins with Marilyn Sprague, by Gil NatureShare is a free, web-based Marilyn told us a brief history of her tool for you. It is a ‘citizen science’ years running Goldfields Reveg. database for individuals and groups Nursery and since selling and to document and share information ‘recovering’, her increasing interest in about their local environment. It is a growing native flowers for florists at free service primarily targeted at her property.
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