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Australian Native Plants Society Canberra Region (Inc) AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS SOCIETY CANBERRA REGION (INC) Journal Vol. 19 No. 04 December 2017 ISN 1447-1507 Print Post Approved PP100000849 Contents President's Report Lucinda Royston 3 President's Report ANPSA 2018 Conference — Hobart 7 to the 2017 Annual General Meeting Wet and Frosty Foliage Ros and Ben Walcott 8 Life Membership Dr Roger Farrow Brigitta Wimmer 12 Trees Masumi Robertson 14 The Australian Native Plants weeds education activities and Vibration pollen collection of Malastoma affine Roger Farrow 19 Society Canberra region (ANPS) ran two Weed Swaps each on the Perambulating around Kathner St Nature Trail Linda Spinaze 25 has 286 memberships and taking north and south sides. This year the Leucopogon fraseri revisited at Tilembeya Roger Farrow 30 into account some are family team handed out about 2500 ANPS Wed Walk to Mount Aggie, Brindabella Nat Park Jo Walker 32 memberships, we have over 300 member grown native plants in Study Group Notes Brigitta Wimmer 36 actual members. Each year, we lose exchange for environmental weeds. ANPS Canberra contacts and membership details inside back cover and gain a few members so the Bill organised the monthly Tuesday Cover: Dianella revoluta with brown anthers, Sutton Hill TSR; number stays about the same. Daily Activity Group’s activities. Photo: Jeanette Jeffrey At the May Members’ Meeting, Members visited a number of a special meeting was held private gardens, viewed the National to consider changes to our Gallery of Australia's early Australian Constitution. The changes were Landscape art collection, and had unanimously approved by the a special visit to a local Australian members present at the meeting, native plant nursery. Journal articles The deadline dates for submissions are 1 February (for namely changing ANPS’ financial The Wednesday Walkers gave our The Journal is a forum for the exchange of members' March edition), 1 May (June), 1 August (September) year to 1 July to 30 June and the members the opportunity to visit, and others' views and experiences of gardening with, and 1 November (December). membership year to 1 January to learn about and record our local flora. propagating and conserving Australian plants. Send articles or photos to: 31 December. The group organisers and leaders All contributions, however short, are welcome and Journal Editor Throughout this year, many included Brigitta, Jeanette and Linda, may be accompanied by photographs or drawings. Gail Ritchie Knight members have volunteered to run the post-walk report writer Jo, and The editor reserves the right without exception to edit 1612 Sutton Road Gail put the Walk Report, photos and all articles and include or omit images as appropriate. Sutton NSW 2620 the society and organise activities and events. plant list on our website. Submit photographs as either electronic files, such e-mail: [email protected] Nola and the Propagation Group as JPEGs, or prints. Set your digital camera to take tel: 0416 097 500 Bob and Jean, Leslie, Linda, Roger, gave our members the opportunity high resolution photos. Please send JPEGs separately Paid advertising is available in this Journal. Contact Warwick and Shirley have organised to learn about and practise and not embedded in a document. If photos are too the Editor for details. a program of nine monthly weekend propagating and to grow plants large to email, copy onto a CD or USB drive and send Society website: http://nativeplants-canberra.asn.au field trips from the alpine areas it by post. Please enclose a stamped, self-addressed for our two sales. The group also Printed by Elect Printing, Fyshwick, ACT in NSW, the south coast, the Blue envelope if you would like your prints returned. If you maintained all our propagation http://www.electprinting.com.au/ Mountains to central west NSW. have any queries please contact the editor. facilities. We have shadehouses in Rosemary with dedicated event Cook (minder Phil) and Queanbeyan Original text may be reprinted, unless otherwise indicated, provided an acknowledgement for the source is given. Permission to reprint non-original material and all drawings must be obtained from the copyright holder. The views and opinions expressed supporter, Jan and assisted by a (minder Ian) and we have the use in articles are those of the authors and are not necessarily the views and opinions of the Society. team of volunteers continued their of Peter Woodbury’s in Googong Journal, Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc — December 2017 3 (minder Peter). We have hotbeds Ros welcomed our new members Ben, Bill, Damian, Iris, John, John and base and Standards Committee and in Queanbeyan and Cook, minder and maintained the database. Masumi, Katie, Linda, Naomi and implemented a number of changes. Lyndal and Phil, respectively. And Our Journal editor, Gail and her Darren, the two Pauls and the two Council has awarded Life Member- Jan maintains a constant supply of backup Alison, produced four Phils. ship to Roger Farrow, thus cutting bee materials. quarterly editions and Bulletin Our 11 monthly members’ acknowledging his long term and Merren and our Plant Label editor, Anthony, put out 11 monthly meetings depend on our speaker broad range contribution to ANPS Database team continued to editions. Winifred and the Collation organiser, Alison, who arranged and to its aims and values. group packed up and sent out hard research, describe and add plants to presentations on garden design, This year Council has decided: this very valuable asset — this list is copies of the Bulletin, Journal and plant conservation and conservation • To donate all the money also the basis for our book Australian the Australian Plants magazine. and environmental projects, specific collected from the past year’s Plants for Canberra region gardens Our Plant Sales Coordinators, flora and travels in the Australian members’ meeting raffle plus an and other cool climate areas. Ben and John together with the landscape. Our meeting raffle relies additional amount to make it up Sales organising team and many on plant organiser Jenny and our Murray has continued to provide us to $2000 to the Canberra Nature volunteers put on our successful propagation group and member with members’ meeting Book Sales. Map Project to support the Weed Autumn and Spring Sales. The team growers who provided the plant The sales of our book Australian Location App, a component of produced plant labels, set out plants, prizes and all of you who bought the Project. Plants for Canberra region gardens provided advice, took money, and tickets. Once again special thanks and other cool climate areas have cleaned up at the end of the sale. go to Peter, our before and after • To donate $10,000 to the gone very well. After an initial 2000 the meetings gate minder and our Australian Flora Foundation (AFF) The Autumn Sale had 13,300 plants copy print in 2015 and a 2000 copy and have given our support to with 10,600 sold and 63 members supper organiser. reprint in 2016, we will consider two grant applications — one volunteered over two days. The Geoff is our Conservation another reprint in 2018. The book on alpine daisies and another on Spring Sale had 12,000 plants with Officer who wrote a number of is available at various outlets in myrtle rust. We have donated to 11,000 sold and 60 members helped submissions on our behalf. Geoff Canberra and in addition this year the AFF previously. over two days we sold 126 copies at our Plant also represented us at the biannual AFF fosters research into the Sales. Anne promoted our Plant Sales, ANPSA teleconferences, and biology and cultivation of especially to reach out to together with Bill and Rosemary Greg has continued to develop and Australian Plants and donations potential new customers, with her represented us at Conservation and government grants are maintain our IT facilities including communication and media strategy Council ACT. Brigitta continued to distributed by the Foundation to our website, email addresses and and activities (including road signs) keep us informed on Australian approved research projects. the email Bulletin list and has to inform a range of media outlets of Native Plants Society Australia provided valuable IT assistance our Sales. Alison and Naomi updated (ANPSA) Study Group news. • To donate $25,000 towards the to members. Led by Bill, we have our Facebook site to also promote ANPS had a 10-person Council this building of a ‘Terra Australia begun a review and redesign of our our sales. Many new buyers said that year: Alison, Ben, Bill, Geoff, Greg, Garden’ at the National website and associated applications road signs and Facebook was how John, Peter, Phil, Ros and me. We Arboretum. The total cost is to take full advantage of such a they found out about the sales. held 11 monthly meetings and did expected to be $150,000. valuable asset. And our sales would have been very our best to keep the Society working ANPS Council saw this as a Our other valuable asset is our much smaller without our member and on track. Council has completed unique opportunity to promote membership database and this year growers — Annabelle and Anthony, its review of the Plant Label Data- Australian native plants to the 4 Journal, Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc — December 2017 Journal, Australian Native Plants Society, Canberra Region Inc — December 2017 5 large number of visitors to the scholarships and fellowships. Arboretum and to educate Under the MOU, ANPS has and showcase how Australian donated an initial payment of ANPSA 2018 Conference — Hobart native plants can be used in the $10,000. Grass Roots to Mountain Tops everyday garden. The Capital Region Landkeepers To date APS Victoria has donated Trust aims to contribute to the The next Australian Native the Lauderdale salt marshes $20,000, ANPS Qld $10,000 management of this region’s Plants Society (ANPSA) with garden visits en route some and APS NSW $3000 (they are landscape by investing in people Conference starts on Monday days.
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