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NEWSLETTER November 2017 Volume 4, Issue 10 November news...! Mitchell Diary Hello, and welcome to our last edition for 2017! Our newsletter Dates.. will return in As a busy couple of months and our year draws • 2018, on or close MONDAY NOV 20th to a close we have some thanks to express... 7:30pm MEETING & to the second AGM Firstly to all our members & friends who made Monday in Guest Speaker: the effort to help out and contribute to our February Peter Mitchell - Spring Plant Expo, a heartfelt thank you to: Bill (February 19th). & Bee Barker, Ray Barnes, Joan & Peter Grasses Contributions • SATURDAY NOV 25th Broughton, Dianne & Paul Carroll, Christine both large and 4:00pm APS Mitchell Cram, Ian Julian, Dawn McCormack, Pauline small are always Christmas BYO Maloney, Barbara Mau, Victoria Morris, enthusiastically Myoporum floribundum - Picnic/BBQ & Garden Maureen Runge, Norbert Ryan, Brian & welcomed. In Weeping Boobialla Visit: The Garden of particular, plant Photo: J Petts Lorraine Weir & Mike Williams. If I am Dianne & Paul Carroll unaware of, or have forgotten anyone and garden 39 Melrose Drive please accept my humble apologies and images are incredibly helpful. Kilmore feel free to let me know so your name can Please send contributions in by Monday • MONDAY FEBRUARY appear in print in our next issue :-). February 5th. Email to: 19th 2018 7:30pm [email protected] or An extra special thank you also to Dianne & MEETING post to PO Box 381 Pyalong Vic 3521. Paul Carroll for their hospitality in offering Guest Speaker: To be their garden for a visit and end of year Best wishes for the coming Christmas & advised holiday season. Hope to see you at our break up picnic barbeque (details below). • MONDAY MARCH 19th upcoming meeting or picnic. Cheers for 7:30pm MEETING now & happy holidays to all, Guest Speaker: To be Jeanine :-) advised Inside this issue: • MONDAY APRIL 16th, BYO Picnic BBQ & Garden 2018 7:30pm November & General Pg 2 MEETING Meeting Information Visit: Saturday Nov 25th... Guest Speaker: Attila Kapitany - Membership Update Pg 2 Dianne & Paul Carroll have generously offered their garden in Boabs & Bottle Trees & their other October Meeting Pg 3 Kilmore as venue for our last get together for 2017: A BYO Australian Relatives Report Picnic Barbeque and Garden Visit. Commencing 4pm on Saturday November 25th Expo 2017 Report Pg 7 39 Melrose Drive Kilmore. Banksia coccinea Pg 8 A barbeque will be available to cook on and please bring your own food (meat, salad & desert to share etc.), drink, picnic Reminders, APS Vic Pg 9 accessories & eating equipment. Diary Dates etc... Come along and enjoy a relaxed end of year get together Committee & Contact Pg 9 among like minded garden loving friends. Information AGM information Pg 10 Page 2 APS MITCHELL NEWSLETTER November 2017 A few pictures from Bill & Bee... Bill Barker The Dillwynia (below left) is a plant which has been on the property since we bought it, it was never planted. The large mint bush ( Prostanthera ovalifolia) (pictured middle & right ) was planted when we arrived before the house was built - about 15 years ago. We had to water it for a few years but now it has spawned a new one which has bloomed for the first time this year. Dillwynia sp. Prostanthera ovalifolia (Close up) Prostanthera ovalifolia MEETINGS ARE HELD ON THE 3rd MONDAY OF THE MONTH November Meeting: Monday 20th 7:30pm… (February to November) unless otherwise advised Peter Mitchell will be joining us as guest Commencing 7:30 pm in the speaker for our last evening meeting for John Taylor Room, Kilmore 2017 to present on “Grasses”. Peter has Library, Sydney Street, been a member of APS Mitchell for a good Kilmore Vic 3764 number of years and also has an extensive history both working and volunteering in Entry $2.00 Gold Coin Austrostipa spp. the area of Conservation, Environment Image: Lorraine Phelan Guest Speaker and Land Management. He is currently www.naturshare.org.au Door Prizes active on the committees of: BEAM Mitchell Environment Group, Victorian Central Biolinks Alliance, Friends of Mt Plant Sales Piper, Broadford Land Management Group and has worked as an Extension Fertilizer Sales Officer for the Department of Primary Industry. (APS Mitchell Slow Release fertiliser $5.00 per 500g) Please bring along grass specimens (native & non-native) from your gardens or property for comparison and identification. Peter’s presentation will be Use of the APS Mitchell free preceded by our usual short and sweet AGM (see page 9 for AGM Library (See Pauline) information & nomination form). Supper & Chat VISITORS VERY WELCOME Memberships ... Members & Visitors are If you fail to receive the December issue of APS Victoria’s Growing Australian quarterly encouraged to bring along newsletter, chances are your membership may have lapsed. exhibits for our “Show & Tell” For all membership enquiries, information and forms and please contact Christine Cram Flower Specimen Table Ph: 5793 8270 or Email to the attention of the Membership Officer at: Please label plants [email protected] Alternatively, membership forms and other information can be found on the APS Mitchell website: http://www.apsmitchell.org.au/membership/ APS MITCHELL NEWSLETTER November 2017 Page 3 October Meeting Report … By Jeanine Petts Around 13 or 14 members came along for what turned out to be a slightly more relaxed and casual October meeting. Technical difficulties with the evening’s planned slide show provided more time than usual for us to chat and mingle ahead of the meeting. Starting around half an hour later than anticipated, Ian welcomed every one and opened with a summary of our Spring Expo (for more details see Ian Julian’s Expo Report on page 6). Prostanthera ovalifolia In brief: 5 native plant growers, the Kilmore Art Society, APS Victoria Book Image: Gary Van Arkidie Sales, Kilmore Mitre 10 and Birdlife Australia participated as stall holders on the day. The $500 Community Grant from Bendigo Bank covered hall hire and advertising costs for the Expo. 203 visitors came through the door which was a marked increase on last year’s visitor numbers. Janet Hand from Birdlife Australia emailed in some feedback saying it is very obvious to her that the people in our area are very interested in their birds and gardens. “They are happy to stop and chat as opposed to Melbourne people who put their heads down and walk past thinking I am trying to flog something”. Janet was thinking of retiring from coming along to our Expo in the future but in light of such interesting conversations on the day this year, may well reconsider. Mike Williams also emailed providing a list of all the named specimens we had on display (list follows at the end of this report). Other feed back we received from various people was that the layout was more open and eye catching this year and it was suggested from one of the growers that we run a Q & A “Ask and Expert” session at future Expos. L-R: Pimelea humilis, Dillwynia sericea With the computer slide show glitches mostly worked out, the rest of the & Dillwynia cinerascens Image: Gary Van Arkidie evening was given over to viewing images from the Expo floral displays. The images were courtesy of Gary Van Arkidie who generously provided photographic services at the Expo and along with Gary we have Norbert Ryan to thank for organising Gary’s participation. 2017 Expo plant list: Acacia acinacea Acacia aculeatissima Acacia binervia Above: Epacris impressa pink form Images: Gary Van Arkidie Acacia cognata Lime Magik Below: Ricinocarpos pinifolius Acacia crassa Acacia denticulosa Acacia glaucoptera Acacia verticillata Alyogyne huegelii Banksia baueri Banksia blechnifolia (Continued on page 4) APS MITCHELL NEWSLETTER November 2017 Page 4 October Meeting Report continued… (Continued from page 3) Eremophila maculata Eremophila maculata x Banksia integrifolia alternifolia Banksia spinulosa Eremophila microtheca Eremophila nivea x Boronia Purple Jared christophori Bossiaea cinerea Eremophila pantonii Bossiaea linophylla Eremophila psilocalyx Bulbine bulbosa Eremophila rugosa Calytrix tetragona Eremophila succinea Carpobrotus modestus Eutaxia epacridoides Chamelaucium axillare Eutaxia obovata Chamelaucium uncinatum Grevillea acanthifolia ssp Chamelaucium uncinatum - stenomera white variant Grevillea alpina Above: Chorizema cordatum Above: Acacia denticulosa Grevillea alpina Warby Correa reflexa var. speciosa Big Bob Chrysocephalum apiculatum Below: L: Banksia spinulosa Range Below: Acacia verticiliata R: Dryandra formosa Chrysocephalum Grevillea anethifolia Images: Gary Van Arkidie semipapposum Background: Telopea Shady Lady Images: Gary Van Arkidie Grevillea aquifolium Correa Ashley Grevillea Apricot Tingle Correa Jetty Red Grevillea arenaria Correa reflexa subsp angustifolia Grevillea armigera Correa reflexa Belka road Grevillea asteriscosa Grevillea Austraflora Correa reflexa Bemm River Canterbury Gold Correa reflexa Point Hicks Grevillea baueri Correa reflexa var. scabridula Grevillea beardiana Correa reflexa var. speciosa Grevillea Billy Bonkers Big Bob Grevillea bipinnatifida Craspedia variabilis Grevillea bipinnatifida Darwinia macrostegia Chittering Valley Grevillea bipinnatifida Jingle Dillwynia cinerascens Bells Dillwynia sericea Grevillea Bonfire Diplolaena grandiflora Grevillea bronwenae Dodonaea subglandifera Grevillea Bronze Rambler Dryandra formosa Grevillea Burung Beauty Dryandra polycephala Grevillea buxifolia Epacris impressa red Grevillea calliantha Epacris impressa white Grevillea Carpet Layer