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Newsletter See More on Page 9 . Lilygram 8 Welcome to our eighth issue! Suggestions for stories or actual articles or photographs are very welcome! Please send them to the Editor, via [email protected] STOP PRESS! Sherwood Arboretum recognised and rewarded in recent Brisbane City Council Budget. Assistant Curator to help Dale Arvidsson. Newsletter See more on page 9. June 2018 Better late than never! Let's be friends… CONTACTING f BBGSA Our Websites www.fbbgsa.org.au (Membership details here) + Brisbane's Botanic Treasures DELECTABLE PLANT TREASURE: OUR FLORAL EMBLEM www.brisbanebotanictreasures.info Combretrum indica 'Jessie's Star' Proiphys cunninghamii formerly called Quisqualis, or Rangoon Brisbane Lily creeper. This is a locally bred all white Planted on 14 October 2015 in MCBG at Email flowered cultivar gifted to MCBG the Launch of fBBGSA. These blooms [email protected] (Photographer & breeder: Kirsten Matthews). photographed in November 2015 [MJK] CONTENTS: MAIL ADDRESS Membership Counter f BBGSA, PO Box 39, Membership Counter! ............ 1 31 May 2018: 150* Sherwood, Qld 4075. From the Chair ...................... 2 Friends of Brisbane Botanic Gardens SOCIAL MEDIA News .......... 3 and Sherwood Arboretum *Current financial members, however another 31 are due for renewal! New Board of Directors TALKS / Training .................. 4 Julie Lumsdale (Chair), GARDEN / Growing ............... 5 Annette Irish (Vice-Chair, EVENTS / Exploits ................ 6 Welcome all new members! IT/Membership), Since December 2017, John Taylor (Treasurer), OBBG news ............................ 8 we have welcomed 29 new members! Jeannie Sim (Secretary & Many thanks to all who have renewed their Newsletter Editor-in-Chief), MCBG news............................ 9 membership recently as well! FoSA news ............................ 10 Arno King (Events), Sidonie Carpenter (Promotions), . Sue Ogilvie (on leave), and Creative Diversions (new!) .. 11 VALE Dale Arvidsson (ex officio as Summary of Activities ......... 12 Elizabeth Tree Smith FAIH Curator of both BBGs & SA) … fBBGSA members were very sorry to hear Liz lost her battle with ABN 20 607 589 873 Please refer to our main website cancer. Annette Irish wrote a lovely Connect – Promote – Protect for the most up-to-date story about her close friend in an Activities and Events! April Mailchimp but I remember Brisbane's Botanic Treasures are: Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mt. Coot-tha Liz's tireless efforts in our early City Botanic Gardens, CBD www.fbbgsa.org.au/events- days including pulling together the Sherwood Arboretum, Sherwood 2/#!calendar "Lighting up the Dome" event at § MCBG, May 2016. Lilygram Newsletter, Issue 8, June 2018 page 1 time there – even the curlews came out one of these for yourself but in a From the Chair for a look! And the week later the contemporary style. Botanica Art Festival were operational in these Botanic Gardens – night time So till next time, keep your eyes on our § website – there are changes a-coming was the best with one of the oldest Welcome to the FBBGSA’s first (length of time old) gardeners lighting and more events to attend. Have you newsletter for 2018! Many events up the trees! What a beautiful sight! kept 14 September free for example?? have happened over the last 6 months — Julie Lumsdale and many volunteers have helped to Have you noticed anything different at BOARD ISSUES make the events worthwhile. With the Botanic Gardens at Mt Coot-tha Volunteer's Week recently I wish to lately? Yes the Cafe is busy; yes the lawn is looking so good without the § personally thank every volunteer who helps (taking on shifts at events, cockatoos resting in the vista; yes the We have two new Board Directors: offering their help with planning events free bus tour during the Sue (who started in March) and like HortiCouture, or even cooking Commonwealth Games was excellent Sidonie (starts in June). Our new lemon curd for sale)! Without people especially the trips to the Australian Director Sue Ogilvie suggested we helping and attending there are no Plant Community area; yes the 2017 share more news about what the Board events to look forward to. So thank Artist–in-Residence Exhibition was does in its monthly meeting marathons! you to all volunteers, participants and absolutely beautiful (plant prints, birds Great idea Sue! The Board of Directors speakers/organisers. Remember you made from raw plant material for of fBBGSA meets the first Tuesday of are the members – if you have a example). All good things are bright every month, February to December specific area of interest please advise and shiny – well the new art work near and handles all the usual management us and always happy to have feedback! the Visitor’s Centre is; the two people matters such as finance, governance, searching for bugs or butterflies via correspondence, promotions and more. You would think after the steamy hot magnifying glass and net near the We hear reports from Directors in summer weather that the Kitchen Lagoon (ex Expo 88 I believe – 30 charge of specific areas including IT & Garden volunteers would be reluctant years ago!) adds so much interest there. websites, various Events, Training & to go back to planting, weeding, So keep your eyes out for more art Education, Kitchen Garden and watering etc. at the beginning of the works as the Botanic Gardens is Membership. We also discuss a round- year (though Dale the Gardener has the transformed. And some of you thought up of issues related to each of the three fields looking specky). But you would I was referring to the Zipline... – not sites under our care: City Botanic be wrong! They were very enthusiastic yet as the Development Approval has Gardens, Mt Coot-tha Botanic Gardens to restart and then the rain came and to go through. and Sherwood Arboretum. Lately, the they had to wait for another few weeks. proposed Zipline at Mt Coot-tha and Not been there lately? You are missing Recently I was having a discussion about the Children’s Trail and needed the new Queensland Police Service out! The Open Day at the Gardens had Memorial and proposed Riverwalk in Dale with an "Ask Me" badge and the to mention Jeannie Baker – the Collage Artist who had a wonderful Exhibition the city have been recurring concerns. public did just that! Don't wait till next On the horizon is the 2020 Conference year though as Dale and the FBBGSA we enjoyed for the first 8 weeks of 2018 in the Richard Randall Studio. of the AAFBG (Australian Association volunteers are always happy to help. of Friends of Botanic Gardens) which One of the amazing things I learnt was The pressures of all gardeners – the how Jeannie makes a complex story we agreed to host in Brisbane. Annette weather! What a difference it makes to look easy and simple. Maybe we can Irish is our coordinator for this big the Gardens and the attendees at the create a storyline for the Children’s event. Expect to hear more soon about Hidden Treasure garden by Antonia Trail. FBBGSA has dedicated volunteer helpers and organising McCaskie were rewarded with a upgrading the Children’s Trail as our committee membership. beautiful sight, heaps of new ideas and project for 2018 – allocating funds Our big focus for improvements this high praise to anyone who would from a range of events including two year is membership. We want more listen!! Thank you Antonia – I know Plant Crèches as well as our donation members so we will have a louder even with rain it is a big ask to have a box funds towards the upgrade. Did lobby group and more funds that can garden ready for the massive number you know the Children’s Trail and the be ploughed into our three botanic of attendees. Maybe some of you have Kitchen Garden were the two most treasures. We have begun connecting a garden to recommend to visit – email asked about places at the Visitor’s with several allied community groups or phone us with the details! Centre at Mt Coot-tha? and have signed up Friends of Did anyone go to the see the Queen Well I have left the best till last. One Sherwood Arboretum and Botanical (well future Queen to be)? The of our Tuesday's Talk by Dr Jeannie Artists Society of Qld as our first Brisbane Botanic Gardens in the City Sim on Bush Houses was so well corporate members (not for profit). were so lucky to display their beauty received that we will attempt to Commercial corporate members are when Prince Charles and Camilla came encourage Jeannie to do it again at the also future targets. Sponsorship is to town. It had been a rainy time (and Brisbane Botanic Gardens in the City. another area of fund-raising that we a wee bit wet under foot) so attendees So watch your emails for the details plan to utilise for specific projects such were waiting patiently for the event to and be enthralled by Jeannie’s as the proposed Children's Garden. unfold. Some of these visitors loved presentation of the history of the Bush the gardens so much that they spent Houses with a challenge to recreate § Lilygram Newsletter, Issue 8, June 2018 page 2 SOCIAL MEDIA Friends of Sherwood Arboretum § have established a Facebook page! Congratulations FOSA! INSTAGRAM news www.brisbanebotanictreasures.info Check out their working bees § and other activities directly. https://www.facebook.com/Friends ofSherwoodArboretum/ This social media outlet has been established since March 2016 and is WEBSITES thriving with 1,705 followers and still growing! WOW! And we just reached § #292 posts! Here's our tag: featuring the fascinating Friends now operates two websites! NOW and THEN Gallery! @brisbanebotanicgardensfriends Our original one is the operational You can also follow Instagram on your computer.
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