Australian Society Yarra Yarra Group Inc (Incorporation No. A0039676Y) Newsletter September 2019

General Meeting Propagation Night Sept 5th - 8 pm Meeting Particulars: For this meeting we will begin with a propagation session. Please bring Visitors always welcome cutting material from no more than two plantsyou would like to propagate. We will have material on hand if you forget. Select tip growth that is young and pliable, but not floppy. Just enough to make about 10 When: 8 pm 1st Thursday each cuttings of 5 to 7 cms, 3 – 4 nodes (where the come out from the month (except January). Doors stem). open 7.30 pm. Come early for sales. We will have tables set up around the room with 2 tutors & helpers per table to teach and assist – the APS YY growers, Noel Gaskett and Mike Venue: Orana building, Araluen Williams ( & any other of our resident experts) will be there. You may take Centre. 226 Old Eltham Rd,Lower your cuttings home or preferably leave with us to go in our heat bed. We Plenty. will have another session to pot them on, when they have generated roots Guest Speaker:Learn more which can take anything from a few weeks to several months. Then you will through talks and discussion by get some new plants for your garden. expert speakers We will have the relevant items in place but please bring your favourite Audience etiquette: No interrup- secateurs/snips. After the propagation which may take up to one hour we tions to the speaker during the will go onto the flower table & raffle as usual. (Image: Carmen and Suzie in talk, questions (one only per per- the production room at the LaTrobe Sanctuary and Indigenous Nursery). son) at the end when requested. Our EXPO is coming: Flower Table Specimens: Bring along your flowers, labelled if Your help is needed. See next page for details possible from our new secretary, Sue Gwilym on what you Plant Sales: Members may buy or sell their own plants, unusual can do. varieties are often available Chairs: Members please help set up chairs from 7.30 onwards and A new editorial team: Jenny Drummond & IT assistant please. put away again after the meeting. Jenny Drummond has recently offered to do our newsletter but does not want to do it alone. She needs an assistant with good IT skills. Jenny runs a gardening/landscaping company and grew up in Warrandyte. She was in APS Maroondah but a move to Eltham five years ago necessitated a move to a closer group. She has a passion for biology and did a B.Science Education at the University of Melbourne. She ran Bimbadeen native nursery for 4 years then moved to Perth where she established a gorgeous native garden. Then she moved to Cambridge, UK where she worked for the University in cancer research. She returned to Melbourne in 2010. Can you help?

Website: apsyarrayarra.org.au Facebook: facebook.com/APSYarraYarra Email: [email protected] | 1 APS Yarra Yarra EXPO Set Up Friday 13th, Expo Saturday 14th & Sunday th 15 September 2019 - from Sue Gwilym Expo is coming and we need your help! Expo will be required after 6.00pm on Friday, thank is our major event of the year and we are you. again holding it at the Eltham Community and Reception Centre (ECRC) which is a big venue Saturday and Sunday helpers will be running and we have lots planned. the show and from 9.00am to 4.00pm we will need help with welcoming visitors, front A roster has been emailed and we would desk ticket sales, YY plant stall, membership appreciate your contribution no matter how information table, children’s activity table, book small, so please get back to us as soon as sales, assisting our speakers and presenters, possible with your available times. If you would and general assistance where needed. Sunday prefer to arrange a time over the phone, please we will also need help with packing up from call Sue Gwilym on 0401 250 331, or you will 4.00pm to 7.30pm. also have the opportunity to add your name to the roster at the September general meeting If you need more information about any of when we will also have an idea of where we the roles just ask. Jill, Mike and Noel amongst might have gaps to be others on the Expo filled. Committee know the Expo inside out To begin with, there and can explain is set up on Friday everything! You also running from 9.00 get free entry if you am to 8.00pm and are assisting and involving moving you are a financial equipment and setting Yarra Yarra member up trestles and other – bonus! Wherever infrastructure, getting you choose to help, flowers into displays, don’t forget to sign labelling, helping plant in at the front desk sellers and generally and wear your name getting stuff done. For badge. Signing in is those doing the late a must for insurance shift we have pizza for purposes and our liability with ECRC. dinner! Members can also help with advertising and Donations of flowers and plants, hanging we will have flyers available at the general baskets and display pots included can arrive meeting for distribution in your local area or from around 9.00 am to the back verandah area letterboxes in your neighbourhood. We have of ECRC (near the kitchen). Please deliver your attached an email version if you want to send to cut flowers (long stems & named if possible) your contacts as well. Please share as widely as and place in buckets of water already on the possible. veranda. Also put your name on any pots or buckets you bring so we can give them back Please come along and help if you can, it’s a lot later. Let us know if you need help with getting of fun and a great way to get to know everyone flowers or plants to the Expo and if you are in the group. A lot of work has already been bringing them yourself please unload at the done in the months leading up to the Expo but bottom carpark, but then move your car when we really need you to help us put together an finished to the upper carpark to allow others to event to be proud of. Looking forward to seeing do the same. No further donations of flowers you all at the Expo! 2 | APS Yarra Yarra News -September 2019 More Garden Visits, APS YY matters & Diary Dates

More Speakers: From the Document Camera - courtesy Mike Ridley 5 Sept. Propagation Night, APS YY Growers 3 Oct. TBA 7 Nov. Grand Flower Table 5 Dec. Members Slide Night & Xmas Party

Dairy Dates - APS YY & APS Vic: 14 & 15 September - APS Yarra Yarra Australian Plants Expo, Eltham Community & Reception Centre, 801 Main Road, Eltham. 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.

21 & 22 September 50th Anniversary of Anglesea Wildflower Weekend and Art Show. Celebrating the area’s remarkable biodiversity and wildflowers. Held at the Anglesea Memorial Hall, 3 McMillan Street, Anglesea 10.00 am to 4.00 pm.

21 & 22 September - APS Bendigo Flower Show. Kangaroo Flat Primary School Gym, Freeman Drive, Kangaroo Flat, Bendigo. 9.30 am to 4.00 pm.

5 & 6 October - APS Grampians Group Pomonal Native Flower Show, Pomonal Hall. 9.30 am to 5.00 pm on Saturday, 10.00 – 4.00 on Sunday.

12th October.APS Echuca Moama Native Flower Showcase, Echuca Masonic Lodge Hall, 426 High Street, Echuca. 9.00 am to 4.00 pm. A huge flower display, plant sales, floral art, Native Bonsai, basket weaving and other displays and demonstrations.

19 October APS Mitchell Plant Expo and Sale. Kilmore Memorial Hall, 14 Sydney Street, Kilmore. From 9 am to 3 pm.

26 & 27 October Cranbourne Friends Spring Plant Sale – 10.00 am to 4.00 pm. (Mel 133 K10)

ANPSA 2019 Conference – Blooming Biodiversity – 30 September to 4 October, hosted by Wildflower Society of Western Australian in Albany, WA. Pre and post conference tours between 21 September to 11 October. Details www.bloomingbiodiversity.com.au.

October 24 & 25, 2020 13th FJC Rogers Seminar on Mint Bushes and Allied Genera, (aka , subfamily ) hosted by APS Yarra Yarra. Images: Top down, Eremophila subflucossa, Hardenbergia violacea, Leionema lamprophyllum, Thryptomene baeckeacea Email: [email protected] | 3 The August Spectacular Flower Table - Jill Lulham

hanks to Miriam, and Mike Williams for the presentation and discussion, Mike Ridley and Ben Eaton for photography. Thanks also to those who brought such a great range of flowers (especially labelled ones) Tfrom their gardens. FAMILY pimeleoides (Miriam’s, was G. drummondii ssp. pimeleoides, sw WA, 1-2m, yellow-orange flowers July-Nov, bird attracting), G. nivea (Carmen’s, Scarlet King, grafted,sw WA), G. ‘Wendy Sunshine’ (Sheila’s, grafted hybrid, bipinnatifida x thyrsoides, <0.5m x 1.5m ), G. ‘Moonlight’ (Carmen, Qld hybrid, possibly whiteana x , <4mx1.5m), G. triloba(Peter’s, WA, <1.5m, can be white or pink, honey scent), G. petrophiloides (Peter’s, low form, WA, flowers above ), G. lanigera (Mike W, Woolly Grevillea, se Aust, large flowers, ground cover often called ‘Mt Tamboritha’, can be shrub), G. olivaceae (Miriam’s, sw WA, <4m, red, also yellow and orange forms), G. tenuiloba (Peter’s, WA, grafted, prickly, ground cover), G. bronwenae (Carmen’s, sw WA, <1.5m, red fls, double graft,), G. ‘Lady O’ (Peter’s, victoriae hybrid x rhyolitica, <2m, hardy, long flowering), G. ‘Bon Accord’ (Lyhn’s, johnsonii x wilsonii, to 2m wide), G. ‘Peaches & Cream’(banksia x bipinnatifida, <1.2m x 1.5m wide, developed in Qld, hardy, long flowering) bucculenta x francisiana (4 x 2m), H. multilineata(Grass- Hakea, WA, to 5m, bright pink flowers along stem, long flowering June - Sept), H. ‘Burrendong Beauty’(myrtoides x petiolaris, semi prostrate shrub, NSW, hardy)H. lissocarpha (<2m, honey scent, sw WA, creamy white, May – Sept) FAMILY acanthoclada (WA, <2m, erect, rigid, very prickly, purple flowers, July to Oct), H. longifolia(eastern Australia, <3m, Aug-Oct), Dillwyniajuniperina (Prickly Parrot Pea, local plant and NSW, <2m, dry areas, Aug-Nov) Acacia beckleri (SA, NSW, <2m, bright yellow, large ball fls, May-July), A. guinetii (Bruce’s, to 2m, WA, June- Sept), A. verniciflua (‘Spicy’ Heathcote form, Varnish Wattle, to 2m, Spring), A. trigonophylla(WA, to 2.5m, flattened stems, Aug – Nov, bright yellow balls), A. imbricata (SA, to 2m, bright yellow balls, not unlike A. acinacea), A. vestita (NSW, Hairy Wattle, to 3m x 5m, weeping, frost hardy, golden balls in Spring), A. jibberdingensis (WA, Willow-leafed Wattle, bright yellow rods, long flowering, Feb – August), Images: Top down, Acacia trigonophylla, guinetii, Grevillea pimeleoides, ‘Wendy Sunshine’

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A. cultriformis (Knife-leaf Wattle, NSW, Qld, to 2.5m, also prostrate form, frost hardy, sprays of golden balls end of branches, 1 vein on leaf distinguishes it from A. pravissima which has multiple veins), A. leprosa ‘Scarlet Blaze’ (red wattle) Hardenbergia violacea alba (white form, can be vigorous climber or shrub) MYRTACEAE FAMILY Eucalyptus caesia ssp magna ‘Silver Princess’(sw WA, up to 15m, minni-ritchi bark also a feature, weeping habit). Verticordia staminosa (sw WA, <0.6m, green-yellow flowers, July-Oct) Thryptomene ‘Amethyst’, T. baeckeacea(WA, 1m x 1.2m, weeping habit, reasonably hardy, long flowering May-Oct) Kunzea baxteri (Scarlet Kunzea, sw WA, <3m, good drainage, full or part sun, red bottlebrush flowers, July-Sept) Chamelaucium uncinatum ‘Dee’s Delight’(Geraldton Wax, WA, to 2m, well drained, full or part sun, good cut flower, lilac flowers, Spring), C. megalopetalum ‘Morning Delight’(Large Waxflower, WA, to 2m, white-pink-red flowers, also cream-yellow, May- Dec), C. uncinatum ‘Purple Pride’(WA , to 4m x 3m, needs pruning, good cut flower, purple fls, June-Oct) SCROPHULARIACEAE FAMILY Eremophila oppositifolia(all States except NT, to 5m, can be pruned, reasonably hardy, several colours, long flowering, Winter-early Summer), E. ovata (Jill’s, <1m, full sun, dry, well-drained, hairy foliage, Winter-Spring, some purple flowers all year), E. youngii (WA, to 4m, 2 ssp, deep pink fls, June-Oct), E. neglecta (SA, NT, drought hardy, orange-red fls, July-Sept), E. deserti (all mainland States except NT, 2-4m, honey scent, white-cream fls, some fls all year) , E. subfluccosa (Anita’s, Dense-felted Eremophila, WA, SA, to 1m, likes alkaline soil, green-yellow fls, Spring), E. maculata aurea (Spotted Emu Bush, all mainland States, yellow form, 1m, Winter-Spring),E. drummondii (WA, <2m, blue- purple fls, July-Nov), E. lehmanniana (WA, 0.5-2.5m, white to lilac fls, white inside with long soft hairs, and pale yellow-brown spots on lower lobe, July- Nov), E. cuneifolia (Lyhn’s, nw WA, <1.8m, leaves wedge or heart shaped, and point at the tip, prune for shape, purple flower with cream to pale reddish- purple , June-Oct). Images: top down, Chamelaucium Dee’s Surprise, Eucalyptus caesia, petrophiloides, Hovea acanthoclada Email: [email protected] | 5 August Spectacular Flower Table ( cont.) Images Ben Eaton

EPACRIDACEAE FAMILY Epacris impressa(Common Heath, southern NSW, Vic, Tas, eastern SA, <1m, floral emblem of Vic, Bega form more adaptable for garden, can be white to pink or bright red, Autumn- Spring) MALVACEAE FAMILY Guichenotia macrantha(Large Flowered Guichenotia, sw WA, <2m, well-drained, part shade, hardy, Spring) ,G. ledifolia(WA, <1.5m, blue-purple-pink fls, July-Oct) Thomasia purpurea x solanacea(WA. <1m, part shade, hardy, pink-purple, Spring) ASTERACEAE FAMILY Olearia frostii(Bogong Daisy Bush, Vic, <1m, mauve-pink, yellow centre, usually Jan-Mar) GOODENIACEAE FAMILY Lechenaultia biloba (Blue Leschenaultia, WA, <1m, treat as an annual, best in a pot, propagates easily from cuttings, pale blue to dark blue, July-Dec), L. formosa (WA, yellow-orange, best in pots, treat as an annual, easily propagated, yellow-orange-red colours, Spring-Summer) FAMILY Boronia crenulata? (WA, <1.2m, pink-purple-red, May-Dec) Philotheca verrucosa(Bendigo Waxflower, se Aust, <1.2m, white flowers, warty stems, Aug-Oct) Leionema lamprophyllum(Shiny Phebalium, NSW, Vic, <2m, hardy, white fls, Spring) Correa alba pink (Bruce’s, <1.5m, coastal se Aust, hairy new growth, sun or part shade, Autumn-Winter), C. pulchella white(<1m, Apr- Sept), C. ‘Marian’s Marvel’(Cultivar of reflexa x backhouseana, <2m, part shade, well-drained, pink fls, March-Sept) THYMELAEACEAE FAMILY Pimelea sp.? (Rice- flower) LAMIACEAE FAMILY , grey leaf form RHAMNACEAE FAMILY Spyridium coactifolium(Butterfly Spyridium, SA, <1m, vulnerable, Dec-Feb) SAPINDACEAE FAMILY Dodonea sinuolata (Feathery Hop Bush, Qld, NSW, <3m, well-drained, full sun or part shade, prune for shape, fruits more visible and attractive than flowers, fruits Summer- Autumn)

Images: Olearia frostii, Dodonea sinolata, Lechenaultia biloba, 6 | APS Yarra Yarra News -September 2019 verrucosa Bev Fox Garden Visit - August 11 - Peter Smith en intrepid members ventured up to Bev Fox’s garden at The Basin. Bev ,recently hospitalised, greeted us and let Chris Larkin(another Foothills member) guide us around.Chris explained how the former T“typical”suburban back yard with lawn and a vege patch was transformed with the help of landscaper Roger Stone into this showpiece Australian garden.

This quarter acre block is full of delightful plants at foot. As rain threatened, we retreated to the but not overcrowded. Bev has chosen and mixed carport and indulged in a “hard to beat selection” so many plants to such good advantage. We wound of a different kind, with Bev providing us with fresh past the pond and around a large central Hakea scones and cream…warm indeed on such a winter’s multilineata following the bush pathway,admiring day. the low plants at our feet and others interspersed at varying heights. , , Acacias, “I get such a lot of enjoyment from my garden with Hoveas, Indigoferas and other peas, Westringias and the diverse range of birds, insects, spiders, native bees Prostantheras, Thomasias, Guichenotias, Leionemas, and frogs that visit,along with two resident possums. Philothecas and Phebaliums, Orthrosanthus and I grew up in Boronia,my home was surrounded by Epacris and Boronias(the last two difficult for most bushland and this gave me my love of nature.” but perhaps appreciating a better depth of soil and the extra rainfall in this part of the world). With members’ efforts directed towards the Expo, no garden visit is scheduled for September. Our next garden visit will be to Brenda Taylor’s Eltham garden The front yard was another cornucopia of plants on Sunday October 6th. Details will be published in again blended with knowledge and experience. the October newsletter. Chorizemas, Hibbertias, Grevilleas and others Images: the back garden path winds around, Lyhn, Ray & surrounding a large Eucalyptus nicholli and an Acacia others inspect the flowers, Hovea lanceolata, Hibbertia acinacea. The nature strip dominated by an ironbark serrata and Chorizema cordatum. and a Snowy River wattle,with daisies and grasses

Email: [email protected] | 7 Win’s Working Bees - Miriam Ford

ver two Sundays in July and August, a considerable number of APS YY members arrived at Winifred Bennet’s garden in Greensborough armed to the teeth with pruning tools, secateurs and other garden Oimplements….Adrian wished he had a chain-saw. Winifred is a founding member of APS YY & she has made many wonderful contributions to our group over the years & still now, at 95, continues to inspire and make a difference. We, as a group, wanted to express our appreciation and how better to do that than to give help in her garden which she treasures so much and which was being taken over by an Oxalis Triffid army & other ungracious inmates enmasse! Agatha, Adrian & Bernadette, Sandra, Andrea (& 100 went in recently. We all hope you enjoy the family), Miriam, Jenny, Mike R, Noel, Carmen & images as we did working there. Rob, Kevin & Alice & Peter – the bringer of Mulch, I hope I have remembered you all, apologies for any There will be a number of these kind of working bees omissions – mea culpa - thank you all for the great in the future where we gather together to help out in work. Winifred has been so touched by our efforts. I other members’ gardens. In particular several such know we have made a huge difference even though efforts will be needed & appreciated by the owners we did not manage to get around the entire garden. of the Open Gardens for the FJC in October 2020. Winifred has a large garden with many plants – over We will let you know! From the top clockwise:Winifred in charge, Bernadette, then Noel assess their handy work, below Peter delivers the mulch. Image from Andrea.

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enue, Date and Committee: The Seminar will be held at our EXPO venue – the Eltham Community and Reception Centre on October 24 and 25, 2020. The FJC 2020 Committee has met a few times now – membership of the committee has been adjusting all the while and currently we have Miriam VFord (Chair and secretary), Jill Lulham, Andrea Himmelspach (Treasurer), Lyhn Barfield, Robert Coombs, Greg Brown (APS Vic, VP), Sandy Birch ( APS Bendigo) & Nicky Zanen ( APS Foothills, ANPSA Publicity Officer) – the latter two have been part of organising committees for previous FJCs. Greg is the representative from the APS Vic executive which is required as the FJC seminars are an APS Vic event since 1995 in fact. We started off with many others who have now as the native foxglove – Pityrodia now Dasymalla departed due to other commitments but who terminalis, Newcastelia, Brachysola, Hemiandra, made invaluable starting contributions - Joanne and others. Don’t be alarmed we didn’t Cairns, Mike Williams, Mike Ridley, David Redfern, know what they were either prior to this. Ray Barnes, Carmen Cooper and Peter Smith – we hope to enlist their aid again closer to the date. It is Promotion of the event: I have started to do the not, however, such a good idea to be on too many rounds of various district groups, at their invitation, committees all at once so every effort is being made to speak on the topic of Mint Bushes and Allied to avoid that . As it became clear that having some Genera. The District Groups included APS Melton people with prior experience in regard to organising Bacchus Marsh, Foothills ( Daytime), Mitcham FJCs would be helpful we (Kilmore), Wangaratta have taken steps to make and still to come, that happen. Thank you to Colac. I have been both Sandy and Nicky who receiving very positive offered their assistance. feedback with many people expressing Progress report: The their enthusiasm in committee has made attending and learning considerable progress in more. regard to arriving at a budget that brings the registration We have also designed cost in around the usual level a logo, banner & a of past FJCs, in determining flyer to go out at EXPO which gardens are to be and at ANPSA 2019 visited (Karen Guifre, Lyhn in Albany and also to Barfield, Kate Herd and various district groups, Maranoa), when and how Botanic Gardens and to get the 4 buses required other venues. around them, the catering A banner for APS YY for the Saturday lectures has also been designed and conference dinner and – we finally have our Sunday Garden visits, the own banner! - and speakers, the program and many other incidentals to also accompany the FJC 2020 one at our (& APS including the raffle prizes. External to committee we Vic) events. The inaugural unveiling of both these have other helpers who include Sue Guymer (Bill banners, a momentous occasion, will occur at the and Sue of APS Vic Books) for online registrations September EXPO. and Jenny Hedley for postal registrations. One does not have to have been on committee to assist. We I have written the first of a series of 5 articles that currently meet approximately every two months will appear in Growing Australian in the Spring issue which will become more frequent next year. This is & will be writing newsletters to update people a demanding event and we will be enlisting the help who have expressed their interest in attending on of more of our membership closer to the time. In progress toward the seminar, starting in February, 2020, it will come 6 weeks after our EXPO. 2020. Growing the Plants: The APS YY Growers and Mike In conclusion, the next issue of APS YY news will Williams have been working hard to grow many have an interesting tale on sourcing one of the rare different mint bushes (Prostanthera species) in and wonderful mint bushes - The Story of our LOGO addition to Westringia species – we have some - Prostanthera galbraithiae. 70 or thereabouts underway now including some of the Allied Genera which include such beauties

Email: [email protected] | 9 Committee, Newsletter Contributions & General Meeting matters

The APS Yarra Yarra Committee: Contributions to the 2019 October APS YY News Miriam Ford (President, Newsletter Editor, COM to Jenny at [email protected]. By Friday delegate, Propagation Gp) M 0409 600 644 September 20.

Peter Smith ( VP, Garden Visits) 0425 798 275. Miriam has assisted on this one. Another IT person will be required for the next issue. Andrea Himmelspach (Treasurer, Propagation Gp) 0424 314 648 Email: [email protected] OR post to Newsletter editor APS Yarra Yarra PO Box 298, Sue Gwilym (Secretary) 0401 250 331 Eltham 3095 Carmen Cooper (Membership Officer, Propagation Thank you to Peter Smith, Jill Lulham & Miriam Ford, Gp) 0413 012 045 for articles, Jill & Jenny for proof reading, Ben Eaton, Mike Ridley, Andrea & Miriam for images. . Adrian Seckold (General meeting plant sales) 0431 071 503 We wish to acknowledge the major sponsorship of our Expo by Hume Bricks & Pavers Pty Ltd. Thank you to Vicki Ward’s Office for printing Some APS YY Committee Meeting Dates: General APS YY Com Meeting:10 Sept, Carmen’s

Next FJC 2020 Com meeting:3rd Sept, Jill’s

AGM Report, August 1, 2019 secretary and treasurer - Joanne Cairns and Mike Ridley for their long and excellent service to the group. Mike is At our recent AGM there were a few changes to our continuing to help us with the renewal of memberships. Committee. Peter Smith has graciously stepped up Thank you to Carmen and Adrian for continuing on. to the Vice-President position, Sue Gwilym is our new secretary and Andrea Himmelspach our new treasurer. Please remember, don’t forget to renew your We welcome them both. We also thank our outgoing membership if you haven’t already!

Special Neutrog Offer to APS members ONLY - having to print it). Please download and save a through agreement with Neutrog & APS Vic. copy for your records, and email it back to me as an attachment. An email was sent to members, but if you missed it we are pleased to offer you the opportunity to Or print and post to : P.O Box 298, Eltham 3095 order Neutrog biological fertiliser products, at amazing prices. We will also need you to deposit the order amount into our bank account by 1st September : Attached is a form with all the products you can order from Neutrog, so please take a look and Bendigo Bank, BSB: 633000, AC No.: 150676625 put your orders in as soon as possible if you are Please put “Your Surname Neutrog” in the bank interested. We will then do a bulk order and if reference line so we know who the payment is from we reach the minimum amount we will have it and what it’s for. delivered free. Bush Tucker is specifically designed for native plants and is endorsed by APS Victoria, I will collate all the orders and if all is well with Seamungus and GoGo Juice are also good for the payments, I will send off the order soon after. natives, but there is plenty to choose from if Delivery should be within 2 weeks of ordering and you have a mixed garden too. I can personally you will need to collect from my place (80 John St, recommend Strike Back, not only for orchids but as Eltham). I will be in touch when it arrives. a great general liquid fertiliser for house plants and the garden. To order, you will need to fill in the attached form and email it back to me at apsyarrayarra@gmail. com by 1st September 2019. The form (PDF) can be filled in online (rather than

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