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reddish brown and orange. In Your Garden There are many more Autumn toned plants to From Irene Turner choose from. Vegetables: Sow broad beans now, they like to grow when the weather is cool, and should be ready to pick in October. Before sowing, give the soil a good liming and some old compost. They don’t like a high nitrogen fertiliser; this promotes leaves at the expense of the flowers. Peas – seeds which also like a good liming before sowing. Plant of the Month Cabbage & onion seedlings can also go in Viburnum – the Snowball Tree now. This is a fragrant flowering tree and shrub Flowers: related to the Honeysuckle, Kolkwitzia & Seedlings available now – alyssum, Weigela. They are native to the cooler Canterbury bells, carnations, cornflower, climates of the northern hemisphere, and delphinium, dianthus, hollyhock, russell lupins, welcomed worldwide in temperate gardens. pansy, viola, primula, snapdragon, stocks and There are over 200 odd species, some are wallflowers. shrubs. Viburnums need water and a good rich wallflowers soil to look happy and flower well. They are usually propagated from cuttings of half- ripened wood. One of the varieties is Guelder Rose which is familiar in North Africa, Europe & northern Asia. Growing to 5 metres & more, it is an attractively deciduous tree with large 3-lobed hairy leaves that colour marvelously in cold areas. It flowers in Spring with flat Hydrangea- like white blossom. Other tree-size Sow seeds of sweet pea and prepare the soil Viburnum includes the as for vegetable peas. North American Arrowwood, V. This is the time to choose your Autumn dentatum, with coloured trees & shrubs. They should be deciduous glossy oval showing their colour now. Here are some leaves. examples:- This grows to 5 metres, Forsythia has purple foliage; Kellers Berberis has white Spring has magnificent orange leaves; Blue Berry has flowers and dark blue brilliant red leaves at this time of year; berries. 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Linking Landscapes nearly 20 expressions of interest were sent to David Hilhorst at the If you are interested in any of these workshops Upper Shoalhaven Catchment Authority at Windellama, please contact David Hilhorst, (USCMA). This represented a good response Southern Rivers CMA, Braidwood on 4842 to the interest demonstrated by the attendance 2594 as soon as possible. at the public meeting. Pine trees A group has met to analyse the expressions of John Pearce is interest, to identify linkages and connections seeking opinions with concerns raised at the meeting and from the last lot of between the proposed projects. The cluster of pine tree proposed projects form a virtual corridor – with purchasers about the possibility of developing links with a their success or number of outlying proposals. It is expected otherwise with their that further examination will be undertaken of last lot of plantings. the proposals and discussions held with If results from tube individual land managers. stock, which we As the projects and their interrelations develop supplied for the first we will attempt to keep those members of the time last year were community who attended the public meeting or not superior to bare indicated their interest in other ways informed. rooted stock we might return to Awareness raising, skills and education were supplying the latter because of their lower proposed as part of the solution to several of cost. the issues raised at the Windellama Locals Linking Landscapes gathering. As a result and John has requested that anybody who to get the project happening the USCMA has purchased the pine trees in tubes last year arranged the following one day workshops - contact him with their opinions. You can subject to demand. contact John Pearce on 4844 5244 Box Gum Woodland: 24th April 10am-1pm Membership fees Box Gum Woodlands cover large areas of the This is a reminder to members – old and new local Windellama area. They contain – that membership fees are now due – it is communities and species that are rare and $5.00 for family membership – meet locals, endangered. Learn how to recognise and make new friends and help look after our land. manage Box Gum Woodland for conservation Busy bees and production. Learn about the role of grazing animals in Box Gum Woodland There will be busy bees at Oallen Ford on management at Windellama Hall. Saturday 1st May and Sunday 16th May to work on the new extension to the cable fence. Carbon Farming Course. 15th May 2010 Please bring shovels and work gloves on the Carbon farming is about storing carbon in our 1st May (concreting in posts) and really good soils to improve soil health and productivity. 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Have you read a book five, 10 or even 6 May Discovering … Ancestry.com 15 times and cannot get it out of your head? If so, share it with the world through Book 2 Art 13 May Searching … (B2A), by using your favourite book as the NSW & Other online BDMs inspiration for an artwork. 27 May Local Sources … Cemeteries & Newspapers B2A is an opportunity for young people 12 – 17 years of age to express themselves and their On Thursday 15 April as part of the National favourite book by creating an artwork based on Trust Heritage Festival, our guest speaker, their interpretation of the book. Les Strzelecki, State-wide Manager of You can paint, draw, collage or do a 3D Museums Corrective Services in NSW, will sculpture: just pick up an entry form and free provide some insight into the artefacts, the canvas from the Goulburn Library anytime after buildings and the features of NSW gaols and Monday March 15. Return your completed corrective institutions during his talk - History artwork to the library by Friday, April 16 with of Prisons. This is a free event and morning tea will be provided. your entry form. Artworks will be displayed in the library from 19 Bookings are preferred for all sessions.