AUSTRALIAN NATIVE PLANTS SOCIETY (AUSTRALIA) INC GREVILLEA STUDY GROUP NEWSLETTER NO. 113 – JUNE 2019 GSG NSW Programme 2019 02 | EDITORIAL Leader: Peter Olde, p 0432 110 463 | e [email protected] For details about the NSW chapter please contact Peter, contact via email is preferred. 04 | ACTIVITIES GSG QLD CHAPTER: – GREVILLEA MEETING AT GSG Vic Programme 2019 TAMBORINE – PETE’S HOBBY NURSERY Leader: Neil Marriott, 693 Panrock Reservoir Rd, Stawell, Vic. 3380 – HOME OF JIM & FRAN STANDING p 03 5356 2404 or 0458 177 989 | e [email protected] – HOME OF CHRIS NIKOLIC Contact Neil for queries about program for the year. Any members who would like to visit the official collection, obtain cutting material or seed, assist in its maintenance, and stay in our cottage for a few days are invited to contact Neil.| See page 3 for details of Easter Working Bee 19-23 April. 07 | GREVILLEA NEWS GREVILLEA SCABRIFOLIA GSG SE Qld Programme 2019 LUCID KEY NEW MEMBERS We gather at 09:30 for shared morning tea and a meeting at 10:00. We usually GREVILLEA CALEYI have a BYO lunch about midday. Visitors are always welcome. For more info or to (CALEY’S GREVILLEA) check venues etc please contact: Ross Reddick on 0405 510 459 or Denis Cox on (07) 5546 8590 as changes can occur. Sunday, 30 June | IN YOUR GARDEN 09 venue: Pete’s Hobby Nursery, 10 Patrick Street, Lowood. DIFFERENT HYBRID?? Peter Bevan has a Native plant nursery across the back yard of several properties FEMALE PEACOCK CARPENTER BEE with several hundred varieties and he has also planted the now-famous ‘rail trail’ garden near his Lowood home. PRUNING MY UNNAMED HYBRID GREVILLEA subject: Pruning A NOVEL HOSE ATTACHMENT PLANTING GREVILLEAS Sunday, 25 August THE ART AND SCIENCE OF venue: Home of Denis Cox & Jan Glazebrook at 87 Daintree Drive, Logan Village. MAKING A HUGELKULTUR BED Daintree Dr is a circuit & has 2 appearances on Diamantina Dr and Jan & Denis are AMAZING BUG on the second corner. Please park on Diamantina. subject: Perfumed Grevilleas Friday, 6 September 16 | IN THE WILD time: After midday WEDDIN COMMUNITY venue: Set-up for the ‘Wildflower Spectacle & plants market’ at the Mt Coot tha Botanic NATIVE NURSERY Gardens Auditorium. It would also be good to have someone to be present at the show on 7 & 8 to interact with the patrons. subject: Wildflower Spectacle & plants market 17 | SEED BANK Sunday, 27 October venue: Garden of Jim & Fran Standing at Mt Clunie Road, Mt Clunie (via Woodenbong, NSW). On the southern side of the Scenic Rim and against Mt Clunie National Park, see how our natives thrive in the cooler climes. 18 | FINANCIALS subject: TBA. EDITORIAL A FEW WORDS FROM PETER Peter Olde, NSW This Newsletter has been compiled by Queensland members with a little help from the GSG leader. There may have been some confusion as Christine indicated it was Victoria’s turn and then left for Bali. However, the matter has now been resolved. Victorians can get their articles ready for next year. The newsletter after this (114) is the responsibility of New South Wales members. What about trying to put an original article together or searching the internet on a particular species of interest. You will be surprised what you can find and it would be a great help to me. Hope you have been watching Gardening Australia, easily the best Gardening show on TV. A recent show was produced from the Illawarra Grevillea Park, Bulli and featured ‘Glorious Grevilleas’. Two of those listed as Ray Brown’s three favourites were bred by Richard Tomkin: Grevillea ‘Bush Lemons’ and G. ‘Miami Pink’. His favourite is G. ‘Bulli Beauty’ which came up spontaneously in the Grevillea Park some time ago. The show was recorded at the end of 2018 and went to air on Friday March 29 2019 with a repeat on Sunday 31 March. At that time Ray was in St Vincent’s Hospital having his heart mended. He is back on track once again and you will be pleased to know, young and invigorated, after some mis-steps along the way, Grevillea endlicheriana fruit exterior showing style attached such as a blood clot in the lung. Many of you expressed appreciation and enjoyed the feature. You can watch it on iView but I have downloaded a video of the segment which you can also download. Not sure how long it will be available, but I have a copy if anyone misses it. Glorious grevilleas https://abcportal-my.sharepoint.com/:v:/g/personal/ baddeley_melissa_abc_net_au/EfWWEtvX5ZpGrkOHmuT KuFABFu02PNIw1tHvLlM5ClV-UA?e=DlZrTi (318MB) I am thinking of re-activating the New South Wales chapter of the Grevillea Study Group with some quarterly meetings and a few activities. I want to see some of the interesting Grevillea endlicheriana fruit cut open to reveal seeds species and forms out there propagated. Please contact me with expressions of interest and ideas for meeting times etc. If there is sufficient interest, we might start up next year. I want to make special mention of Mark Noake and his work so far behind the scenes. I do so in the hope that his efforts will inspire the efforts of others. Just ask me how you can assist. Mark has been photographing Grevillea fruits with the seed inside. You can see how the organs line up. These images are not seen too often in publication. I am attaching just two. They show the seed coat and the seed. The idea here is to photograph the fruits and seeds of every Grevillea species. A monumental but not unachievable task given Grevillea manglesii fruit cut open to reveal seeds our numbers. CONTINUED > NEWSLETTER NO. 113 – JUNE 2019 02 EDITORIAL Mark has also been setting up a database to which we can link information on all the different species of Grevillea. At present I am trying to reference each species in the various treatments. A similar approach is taken on the AVH website but they have largely ignored references in the Grevillea Book which I find a bit insulting, especially given that we broke the mould that the McGillivray Revision would have deemed we follow. I am told that this is simply a matter of resources and will be fixed over time. In the meantime, references in the GSG newsletter will be taken up in the list I am compiling. Bernie Shanahan (2 categories) and Tony Cavanagh (7 categories) deserve great credit for continuing to update our index past Newsletter 100. The index to Newsletters 1–100 is available on the GSG website. Is there anyone who would be interested to assist Tony with indexing one or two of the categories as each newsletter is produced? It would be such a great help, to him and to me. Grevillea manglesii fruit exterior showing style attached Illawarra Grevillea Park NEXT OPEN DAYS 2019 Mark has also scanned all the illustrations drawn by Collin Woolcock. These were made for the Grevillea Book but July 6 & 7, 13 & 14 never published. I am going to make them available (as pdfs) for a fee to interested members as a way of raising Opening hrs are 10am – 4pm money. Are there any illustrators out there who could Location assist voluntarily with illustrating species not already The Park is located at the rear of Bulli Showground, completed. There have been many new species recognised Princess Highway, Bulli. since the Grevillea Book and many more are proposed in Admission manuscript. Possibly an additional 100 species. This means also that the Grevillea Books need to be revised, a process $5 adults, children with adults are free that I have started but is not far advanced particularly as email [email protected] the Hybrid Book is taking priority. or visit grevilleapark.org NEWSLETTER NO. 113 – JUNE 2019 03 ACTIVITIES GSG QLD CHAPTER Jan Glazebrook, Qld Grevillea meeting at Tamborine His grafts, once completed, are placed on an east facing It was a grey, overcast day in February when we visited verandah where they receive morning sun. Here he can Alan Lee’s home at Tamborine for the first Grevillea Study keep an eye on the plants. Group get-together for 2019. After the grafting demonstration we inspected Alan’s We all had one eye on the sky for rain that might break the garden. Despite the drought, his plants looked like they record drought that South-east Queensland was suffering. were well settled in. And although there was not a lot in But even though a few drops fell, we would have to wait flower, we were able to see how he had established his before we would receive decent drought-breaking rain. plants. This is a garden that is well on its way to being an example of how grafted grevilleas should be used. Alan and his family have been on their Tamborine acreage We then made our way to Alan’s shade house, where property for about two years but have already established we were able to purchase grafted grevilleas for a very a garden in the front section. In the back section, which reasonable price. His plants are a testament to his skill in slopes down to a small creek, he has established a nursery grafting. where he propagates and grafts Grevilleas After the meeting, Alan gave us a demonstration of his grafting technique. In preparing the rootstock, the top is removed, leaving only two leaves, then any growth buds in the axils are removed. He uses a splice graft and uses Parafilm to completely enclose the scion from which the leaves have been carefully removed, ensuring no damage to the growth buds in the leaf axils.