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Yarra Yarra Group Inc Newsletter September 2019 Australian Plants 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 leaves come out from the month (except January). Doors stem). open 7.30 pm. Come early for plant 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 Lamiaceae, subfamily Prostantheroideae) 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. PROTEACEAE FAMILY Grevillea 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 banksia, <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 shrub), 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.
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